8 Reasons Why You Should Watch Banshee

3. The Tone

Anthony Starr Banshee
Cinemax

Banshee is easily one of the most tonally ambitious shows you will ever see. It attempts to blend extreme violence, graphic nudity, and tongue in cheek humour, and put them all in a bleak world filled with cartoonish characters and harrowing acts of murder and rape.

Somehow, the show manages to balance all of these things. The show feels cohesive even when it pushes the envelope with a dramatic set piece, silly joke, or an act of cathartic violence. The entertainment value never overshadows the drama and the underlying character tensions.

It's the fragile relationships between all these people that keeps the show in check. A difficult balancing act, and impressively, Banshee rarely falls off the line.

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