History Series / Banshee

* ArtisticLicenseLaw:
** Even in the BlackAndGreyMorality world of this show, Kurt Bunker having a law enforcement background from Florida is wildly improbable. He has visible Nazi tattoos all over his body that would make him useless as a witness, including ink that marks him as a member of the cop-killing Aryan Brotherhood.
** There is not a single native reservation in Pennsylvania, not to mention its police department. But the series just needed to have both, along with a NativeAmericanCasino.

->''"You better brace yourself. Here come the motherf*cking neighbourhood"''
-->'''Job'''

''Banshee'' is an action crime drama on Creator/{{Cinemax}} which premiered on January 11, 2013. It was created as part of Cinemax’s drive to create more original content. The show is known for some spectacularly violent fight scenes, and its signature crime noir pulp feel.

In the series, Creator/AntonyStarr stars as a NoNameGiven master thief who recently got released from prison after a 15-year sentence for stealing $10 million in diamonds. As soon as he is released he goes looking for Anastasia (Creator/IvanaMilicevic), his lover and accomplice who was able to elude the police and got away with the diamonds. The catch though, is that he and Ana were both working for the Ukrainian mob, so not only did they steal the diamonds from their owners, but they also tried to steal them out from under the nose of the Ukrainian mob boss known only as 'Mr. Rabbit' so they could start their new lives together. His first step is to seek out Job (Creator/HoonLee), an old accomplice and master hacker, who provided Ana with a new identity all those years ago. Job gives him an address to a place called Banshee, a small town in Pennsylvania's Amish country. There Ana has become Carrie Hopewell, a respected real estate agent, mother of two and the wife of the District Attorney.

Banshee is not exactly a quiet town though. Between the Neo-nazis in the trailer park, the insulated Amish community, the local Native American tribe and its extremist gang "The Red Bones", and Kai Proctor's criminal empire, "Lucas Hood" has his hands full right from the start.

And now unfortunately, Mr. Rabbit's henchmen are now looking for him and Ana and all hell will break loose if they find out where they are.

The series was well known for its well-choreographed fight scenes and intense cinematic narrative structure. It mixed some very emotional and complex storylines with a ''lot'' of violence, sex, and sass. It won a Creative Arts Emmy award in 2013 for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.

* CharacterDevelopment: Despite his AnythingThatMoves behavior throughout the show, in season 4 [[spoiler: Lucas turns down sex offered by Agent Dawson and breaks down crying in her arms. Seeing his two previous lovers murdered finally broke him.]]

* WholePlotReference: The episode "Tribal" is this to ''Film/[[{{Assault On Precinct 13 1976}} Assault on Precinct 13]]'': a police station endures a night long siege from a vengeful gang, with the cops and prisoners inside [[EnemyMine teaming up]] to survive through the night, even as they argue about sending the target of the gang's vengeance out to die so the rest of them will be spared.

* WholePlotReference: The episode "Tribal" is this to ''Film/{{Assault On Precinct 13 1976}}'': a police station endures a night long siege from a vengeful gang, with the cops and prisoners inside [[EnemyMine teaming up]] to survive through the night, even as they argue about sending the target of the gang's vengeance out to die so the rest of them will be spared.

%%* WholePlotReference: The episode "CADI" is this to ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976''

** All the [[SemperFi US Marines]] on the Stowe's base are replaced by the [[FacelessGoons mask wearing]] [[PrivateMilitaryContractor mercenaries]] in the Season 3 finale and therefore it's fair play to shoot them for the heroes.

* BadassNative: Something like a third of the cast fits this trope. [[TheBrute Chayton]] [[LargeAndInCharge Littlestone]] and [[ActionGirl Nola Longshadow]] are at the top of the heap though.

** Anyone who messes with Deva is in for some ''[[UnstoppableRage very]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown big]] [[PapaWolf trouble]]'' courtesy of Hood.

** Fat Au, an arms dealer backed by the Triads and an acquaintance of Hood and Job. Though the latter is actually a pretty decent guy, [[BlackAndGrayMorality all things considered.]]

''Banshee'' is a crime action drama on Creator/{{Cinemax}} which premiered on January 11, 2013. It was created as part of Cinemax’s drive to create more original content. The show is known for some spectacularly violent fight scenes, and its signature crime noir pulp feel.