What I’m Watching: Banshee

Banshee: Season 1, Episode 4 “Half Deaf is Better Than All Dead” (B+)

It’s good to see that Lucas hasn’t given up his life of crime altogether, and it’s fantastically thrilling to see Carrie spring into action to help him make the perfect getaway. Defending her assistance as a necessary move to ensure her wellbeing as well as his own makes sense, but it’s clear that her attachment to him runs deeper than that, given the way she was enjoying herself in the bathtub about a lackluster night with her husband. She and Lucas do make an excellent team, as evidenced by his “Three, three, three!” which prompted her to spin the car and him to shoot at and subsequently flip over the cop car. It seems that even the police are untouchable in Banshee, as the Moody brothers ambushed Lucas as he was bringing Kai in and planned to murder him in cold blood as well as the unexpected prisoner they detested just as much. Lucas pulling one of their ears off and then throwing it back to its owner was brutal, but it’s nothing new on this show, which has established its nature after only four episodes. Kai’s time spent in prison was much worse for everyone else than it was for him, and it’s evident that he’s always going to manage to skirt legal justice. Job arriving in Banshee should make things considerably more interesting, and Lucas is now going to have a business partner in Sugar as well. Brock getting ambushed in the motel with the witness at the end of the episode was no surprise, but it was very well executed.