#Banshee tv season 3 series

The Dalton scenes are all about potential and history. An unformed piece of clay to be molded (and likely manipulated) by the enigmatic Dalton, who either listens to Hood's confession about killing his drunk and abusive father, or creates a work of fiction that a half-starved, dehydrated, and likely very open-to-suggestion young man eventually believes вЂ“ making the idea of the character being a literal blank slate even more intriguing than it already was. What is surprising, then, is how the finale plays with the question of Hood's future by doing something it hasn't done before: It ventures back to the character's pre-Rabbit days, back to when he was just a young, insolent cadet with some anger issues вЂ“ the perfect mixture of raw talent and even rawer emotion. Stowe's band of thieving military men, it was just another day at the office. So when 'We All Pay Eventually' set up the inevitable showdown between Hood's crew and Col. After being arrested by an ambitious FBI agent that sent him down the proverbial rabbit hole into a chaotic place of utter weirdness, Hood has been going non-stop, fighting his way through Chayton's siege on the Cadi, mourning the loss of Siobhan by getting lost in question of what could have been, pulling off a daring heist, and allowing himself to get lost in an incredibly satisfying downward spiral of revenge. That's not necessarily surprising, given what Hood went through in these past 10 episodes. And by the season's end, what's left is a lot like the man who wandered into Banshee three seasons ago, a man seemingly without an identity, a man looking for some kind of direction. But, as Bunker has to convince himself that he's a better person, so, too, does Hood, and season 3 delivered as many obstacles as it possibly could to derail that train of thought. At the time, the question of 'Who is Lucas Hood?' felt as though it was looking forward, as though the question should be rephrased as: 'Where will this take Lucas Hood?'ДЄt the time, the question carried with it a sense of opportunity, as though the door was open for Hood to wipe the slate clean and to finish what he started. Last season, it seemed as though the man calling himself Lucas Hood had begun to question whether or not a person could actually change, whether or not slipping into the blue uniform and pinning on that sheriff's badge might have prompted some fundamental alteration of his self.

Whether it is Sugar trying to pass for a humble barkeep, Carrie trying to be a waitress (and to a certain degree, a wife, a mother, and, well, Carrie), or Hood passing himself off as sheriff, Banshee has so many people pretending to be something or someone they're not it should be sponsored by. That uniform of course is whatever faГ§ade these characters use to pass for normal when they are anything but, and in a place where nothing normal ever seems to happen.

#Banshee tv season 3 series

And in the enthralling and bloody season finale, 'We All Pay Eventually,' the series begins to peel away at the essence of its characters, hinting at a common thread between them all that may best be summed up in the words of Kurt Bunker when he says, 'Putting on the uniform doesn't wipe the slate clean.'

In three seasons, Banshee has found new and unique ways to balance the show's violence, its edginess, and its take-no-prisoners approach to storytelling with some larger, more intimate questions about relationships, loyalty, and above all else, identity.