{"id":43051,"date":"2026-10-21T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43051"},"modified":"2026-10-20T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:00:34","slug":"43051","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43051","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Banshee: Season 2&#8221; (2014) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z102126review_banshee_s2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"604\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Banshee: Season 2 <\/i>(2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Created by:\u00a0 <strong>Jonathan Tropper, David Schickler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Greg Yaitanes <\/strong>(eps. 1-2; 9-10)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ole Christian Madsen <\/strong>(eps. 3-4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Babak Najafi<\/strong> (eps. 5-6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Loni Peristere<\/strong> (eps. 7-8)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Teleplay:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Tropper<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(eps. 1; 9-10)<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Schickler<\/strong> (ep. 2)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evan Dunsky <\/strong>(eps. 3-4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Romano<\/strong> (eps. 5-6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Doug Jung<\/strong> (eps. 7-8)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stars: <strong>Antony Starr, Ivana Mili\u010devi\u0107, Ulrich Thomsen, Frankie Faison, Hoon Lee, Rus Blackwell, Matt Servitto, Demetrius Grosse, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Matthew Rauch, Rus Blackwell, Ryann Shane, Lili Simmons, Anthony Ruivivar <\/strong>and<strong> Ben Cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tagline:\u00a0<em>Good Town.\u00a0 Bad Blood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After 15 years in prison a man went to the small town of Banshee to reunite with his crime partner and Anna, his girlfriend. They ripped off a Ukrainian crime boss known as Rabbit for millions.\u00a0 He was caught and she escaped with the loot.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbit still wants both\u2026 and revenge on the man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Banshee the man finds Ana.\u00a0 She\u2019s taken on a new identity as Carrie Hopewell.\u00a0 The new identity was expected.\u00a0 Her married to the town\u2019s D.A. with two children was not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through a series of events, the man takes on the identity of Josh Hood &#8211; the town&#8217;s new sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>This season&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FBI agent Jim Racine takes a special interest in the violence that has come to Banshee since the arrival of Josh Hood, the new Sheriff<\/li>\n<li>Carrie is torn between her love of her husband and children and her former lover Josh Hood.\u00a0 Carrie&#8217;s husband has sent her away and her daughter wants nothing to do with her.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hood wants to bring down Proctor &#8211; the crime boss of Banshee, but will need his assistance when Rabbit comes calling.<\/li>\n<li>Proctor has his own problems with the Kinaho tribe.<\/li>\n<li>Josh Hood&#8217;s problems increase when the real Josh Hood&#8217;s son shows up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Banshee<\/em> was created for Cinemax and therefore doesn\u2019t hold back on filming nudity and sexual situations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Banshee<\/em>\u00a0 has always played out like a really fun crime comic with larger than life characters combined with over the top action.\u00a0 This kicks up even more in season 2.<\/p>\n<p>Hoon Lee continues to be a favorite character.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re willing to go with the concept of an ex-con taking the identity of the new sheriff (that nobody has ever met), you\u2019re in for a fun ride.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Banshee: Season 2 <\/i>(2014)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z102126review_banshee_s2a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banshee: Season 2 (2014) Created by:\u00a0 Jonathan Tropper, David Schickler Director: Greg Yaitanes (eps. 1-2; 9-10) Ole Christian Madsen (eps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43122,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43051\/revisions\/43122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}