Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) an ex-con and master thief assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff where he continues his criminal activities. His past seems to haunt him by those he betrayed years earlier. This ex-con imposes his own brand of justice where violence erupts at every turn in the not so quiet Amish town Banshee Pennsylvania.
Review
Having watched Banshee's first 6 episodes on demand my wife and I are hooked. With Showtime's Dexter coming to an end Cinemax Banshee is our new favorite show. I hope it will last for more than 10 seasons. It's that good.
What is nice about Banshee is that the bad guys get their share of street justice at the end of every episode. You will be satisfied at the end of each episode a lot of action with the right conclusionending. This is just the opposite of 'the Following TV series w Kevin Bacon' where you end up frustrated at the end of each episode because the bad guys gets away with it.
This is a dark show about a small town with different shady characters. What's nice about it is that the storytellers and director weaves these characters beautifully showing how each and everyone is connected to each other from the protagonist to the Amish to the local businessman to the drug dealers and the local rednecks. And yeah the women are smoking hot Ivana Milicevic the teenage Amish girl lover of Tony Starr (Lilli Simmons) smoking body the police woman (Trieste Kelly Dunn) the widow of the guy Lucas killed Kat Moody (Kay Story). These 4 women are so hot they give juice and adrenaline to Banshee.
Lastly the show is shot on location in North Carolina just 1.5 2 hours away from where we live. Hopefully we could catch the filming of the show )