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Banshee

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Generally favorable reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews

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Universal acclaim based on 24 Ratings

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Banshee

Series Details & Credits

Cinemax | Release Date: January 11, 2013

Starring: Matt Servitto, Tom Pelphrey, Frankie Faison, Ivana Milicevic, Antony Starr, Ulrich Thomsen, Ryann Shane, Lili Simmons, Matthew Rauch, Chris Coy

Summary: Ex-con Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) may be the sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania, but he's not reformed even as he's hiding from the gangsters he and his old partner, Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic), betrayed.

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense

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Recent Episodes

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S4:E8. Requiem
Air Date: May 20, 2016
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S4:E7. Truths Other Than the Ones You Tell Yourself
Air Date: May 13, 2016
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S4:E6. Only One Way a Dogfight Ends
Air Date: May 6, 2016

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Metascore

66

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Critic Reviews

91

Hitfix

Alan Sepinwall

Jan 6, 2015

Season 3 Review: As a drama, Banshee is preposterous. It is ludicrous. It regularly defies laws of both plausibility and physics, and there's usually at least one moment per episode where I have to pause the action because I can't stop laughing at how ridiculous it all is.... And that is why I've come to love it. Read full review

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The Daily Beast

Marlow Stern

Jan 10, 2014

Season 2 Review: Banshee isn’t reinventing the wheel. But unlike, say, Homeland, which no longer makes much sense as a show given the departure of its finest asset (Damian Lewis), this Cinemax series knows it’s crazy. It delights in its trashiness, its pulpiness. Read full review

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Yahoo TV

Ken Tucker

Apr 8, 2016

Season 4 Review: Tucked away on Cinemax and by now almost doggedly proud of both its cult status and its utter unpredictability, Banshee remains a pure pleasure machine, at once vulnerable and sturdy, and determined to go out on its own terms, whatever the hell those may be. Read full review

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Miami Herald

Glenn Garvin

Jan 10, 2013

Season 1 Review: Like True Blood, Banshee can be preposterously entertaining, or perhaps entertainingly preposterous. Read full review

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New York Magazine (Vulture)

Matt Zoller Seitz

Jan 11, 2013

Season 1 Review: While it's emphatically not a great show, it is an overheated yet intriguing one, driven more by visuals than words--and if you don't mind that its gory action and soap-opera plots aren't yet matched by dialogue and performance, it's worth a look. Read full review

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The A.V. Club

Phil Dyess-Nugent

Jan 9, 2014

Season 2 Review: The problem is, Banshee is turning into just another show about a lawman with a colorful past that may not do everything by the book, but--he gets results! Read full review

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Washington Post

Hank Stuever

Jan 10, 2013

Season 1 Review: Banshee has the audacity to behave as though its bloody violence, implausible set-up and studied ugliness is somehow vanguard television. In fact, it's just more of the same. Read full review

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adamtwar

Oct 20, 2019

Banshee is an incredible show. Perfect casting (Starr, Miličević, Thomsen, Faison, Servitto, Lee, Shane, Rauch, Dunn, Simmons, Segees, Vasilopoulos are incredible. Grosse is underused. Cross is the only one who could have been cast better). The writing, the cinematography, the direction, theBanshee is an incredible show. Perfect casting (Starr, Miličević, Thomsen, Faison, Servitto, Lee, Shane, Rauch, Dunn, Simmons, Segees, Vasilopoulos are incredible. Grosse is underused. Cross is the only one who could have been cast better). The writing, the cinematography, the direction, the editing — spot on. Some may think there is too much sex & gore, but I think both are integral to the storytelling. It’s a one of a kind production.… Expand

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Damowolf

Sep 5, 2020

I came across banshee by accident and wow... its a fun ride from start to finish with no identity politics just good old fashioned entertainment

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Zumbie101

Oct 13, 2020

Decent show set in small town, characters are interesting. Show isnt complicated however nothing else really like it

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Dee-Jay_Deli

Jan 6, 2022

This show is fairly unique, with a "realistic" gritty setting and ultra-voilent fist-fights set between a cast of exaggerated, but highly-entertaining characters.

That said, while Season 1 starts out a bit slow it really hits its grove towards the end and really peaks with season 2. AfterThis show is fairly unique, with a "realistic" gritty setting and ultra-voilent fist-fights set between a cast of exaggerated, but highly-entertaining characters.

That said, while Season 1 starts out a bit slow it really hits its grove towards the end and really peaks with season 2.

After that unfortunately, the writing falters and the show becomes less and less consistent. The plot lines go over the top or nowhere. It's a bummer, because up until then, the show is truly excellent.

Season 4 is pretty self-contained and feels very different from the others. A bit on an unworthy ending for a previously great show.… Expand

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dr_Tre

Apr 12, 2020

Some of the best fight scenes ever seen on screen. Sadly story gets more and more ridiculous as it goes on. Still a thrilling, fun ride, just don't take it too seriously.

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Seasons & Episodes

66

Series Overview
Season 4

77
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: April 1, 2016
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  S4:E8. Requiem
  Air Date: May 20, 2016
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  S4:E7. Truths Other Than the Ones You Tell Yourself
  Air Date: May 13, 2016
- tbd
  S4:E6. Only One Way a Dogfight Ends
  Air Date: May 6, 2016
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  S4:E5. A Little Late to Grow a Pair
  Air Date: April 29, 2016
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  S4:E4. Innocent Might Be a Bit of a Stretch
  Air Date: April 23, 2016
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  S4:E3. Job
  Air Date: April 15, 2016
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  S4:E2. The Burden of Beauty
  Air Date: April 8, 2016
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  S4:E1. Something Out of the Bible
  Air Date: April 1, 2016
Season 3

tbd
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: January 9, 2015
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: January 10, 2014
Season 1

62
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 11, 2013