The man pretending to be Sheriff Lucas Hood almost seems like he might be in a pretty good place. He's getting to know the teenage daughter he only recently learned he had, he's in a relatively healthy relationship for once (except for the fact that he's lying to her about who he is) and the man who has actively been trying to ruin his life - the father of this ex - is finally dead.
But of course, Banshee has always been about morally compromised people making bad personal decisions, so you can bet that "Lucas" and his friends will find a way to make their own lives way, way more complicated and dangerous than they need to be.
This third season of the show suffers from a couple of significant issues. The first is that it comes after a season with a pretty satisfying ending. You could stop watching this show at the end of season 2 and it would hold together pretty well. In fact, I suggest you should stop watching at the end of season 2. This season has a cliffhanger-ish ending instead, and while that's successful in that it makes my wife want to find out what happens, it feels a bit under-cooked, just kind of appearing in the back end of the run.
"Feels a bit under-cooked" is probably a good short hand summary of the whole season, actually, and it's a major flaw. There's a lot going on here; many different stories at once; but they're not interwoven well and none of the villains are all that engaging or interesting and the people you want to see clash are generally not intersecting that much. It feels unfocused and at times padded - which a season of only 10 episodes never should, and sub-plots seem to appear abruptly and then get dropped again an episode or two later for no real value other than "we wanted to give character X something to do for a few scenes".
Writing has never been Banshee's strong point, but it is actively a weakness in this season.
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