'Banshee' Season 4 Review + Series Review
Sadly, last night saw the end of Cinemax's 'Banshee'. After 4 seasons totaling 38 episodes, the story had come to an end. While I will miss the show, I'm glad it ended with story lines that were engaging and interesting instead of losing its way and becoming stagnant.
Season 4 Review
The start of the season skips ahead 2 years from season 3, with Hood living alone in a cabin looking grizzly. The death of Siobahn paired with the kidnapping of Job took a serious toll on Hood as he went off into seclusion to atone for his sins.
The season relies heavily on flashbacks, as Rebecca is found murdered and Proctor has become the mayor of Banshee. Lotus has also become the sheriff in the new station. Job is revealed to still be alive but is being tortured in horrible ways. Lotus finds Hood in the cabin, as he got GPS coordinates from Rebecca's car. Hood is being suspected as the killer.
Deputy Bunker has been sleeping with his brother Calvin's wife, as she fears for her life and the life of her son from Calvin, who is heavily involved in the Aryan Brotherhood.
Job is eventually rescued, paying off his captors with the money taken from the military base from last season.
Hood is arrested for Rebecca's murder and she was actually pregnant at the time of her death, the baby being Hood's.
A satanic cult in Banshee is sought out for the ritualistic killings of young women in town, with one being killed while Hood is imprisoned, freeing him.
FBI agent Veronica Dawson arrives to work the cult case, as Hood begins helping her to find Rebecca's murderer. They eventually solve the case and kill the leader of the cult after Dawson is almost killed by him.
The Aryan Brotherhood is shifting power from Proctor under the new leadership from Calvin after he kills Watts. Proctor has backing from a senator from DC to run drugs in tandem with the Colombian cartel, but Calvin is losing his mind and has his power stripped. He confronts Bunker one final time, resulting in his own death.
Carrie had also been thwarting Proctor's plans all season, as she and Job destroy a shipment of drugs. The result sees Proctor kill the cartel leader, putting a major target on his back.
After finding further evidence that Rebecca wasn't killed by the cult leader, Hood and Dawson find a basement under a tool shed on Proctor's property as Hood finds Rebecca's necklace and blood. He believes Proctor to be her killer, but it's revealed that Proctor's henchman Burton is the culprit, as Rebecca had been causing too many problems for him. Proctor kills Burton by snapping his neck.
Proctor's property is invaded by the cartel, resulting in a shootout that surely resulted in his death, but wasn't shown on-screen.
Hood says his goodbyes to everyone as he plans to follow Job back to New York, and we still weren't given his true name.
Season 4 rating: 9 out of 10
Series Review
'Banshee' was a show that I had heard relatively nothing about before I started watching it, but I was quickly hooked after a few episodes. This series had everything: hardcore action and fight scenes, black comedy, drama, suspense, mystery, romance and overall was a terrific show.
Each season built on the previous one, interweaving story lines and plot points in a superbly written way. Though viewers had to suspend their disbelief over some of the action scenes in terms of how much damage a person can take and keep on going, it never felt too ridiculous and unbelievable.
The character relationships were a strong point of the series. You were made to care about Hood, Job, Carrie, Sugar and all of the police officers and even some of the antagonists in Proctor and Rebecca.
I can't recommend this series enough to new viewers, and now with the series being over, it makes for a great binge-worthy show that can be knocked out in a short amount of time. Networks like Cinemax really are primed to make great shows like this that dont have to pull any punches with content. Do yourself a favor and check out 'Banshee'.
