The Kindred

I just wonder why, in this episode, our renegade cop and his pal, the former prize fighter, tail an armored truck, in the same manner as if they intended to pull an attack on it? I don't know what that means...Maybe there will be more clues about this in further episodes, but in the meanwhile, that makes no sense to me. That's the only thing I wanted to say about this episode, and I persist to resume the seeing of this awesome show. I don't know if JUSTIFIED series is better or not than this one, although both seem to be very similar.

There is maybe too much sex for my taste, but certainly not too much violence. Never. I am a blood thirsty viewer.

There is a famous saying that says "you don't bring a knife to a gunfight" yet our hero Lucas brings a couple sticks and a couple fists to a firefight and destroys a heavily armed biker gang singlehandedly by using nothing but WWE style wrestling moves without suffering the slightest injury because he's a super hero with super powers that makes Superman, Batman and every other super hero look like a joke.

Lucas is like Chuck Norris + Hulk Hogan + Rambo + Batman + Superman + Ninja Turtles and Jack Bauer all in one body.

Episodes like this make this show look like somewhere between a comedy and a cartoon but that's what people like these days.

If you are an action junkie, if you are a fan of Cinemax, if you found the premise of Banshee intriguing (it is), if you like rooting for the underdog production company because you know they will try harder ... if any or all these apply to you, then winner winner chicken dinner, this episode will be very satisfying indeed.

To be honest it feels less like an episode in a TV series and more like someone took a Stallone/Van Damme story and boiled it down to the essence. Which bring up another point. The criticism thrown against STRIKE BACK was too much emphasis on the characters was overshadowing the fact that almost none of the missions ever actually worked.

That was very "TV." Someone was listening. The first year of Banshee has BOTH great character development and, to understate it, stuff does indeed get done. Making the lead character slightly crazy off the top turns out to have been a brilliant move (remember the first Lethal Weapon, before the franchise turned into a comedy?) because in a TV action series, "crazy" delivers.