#Banshee tv cast series

CinemaxвЂ™s first two serious original series, вЂњStrike BackвЂќ and вЂњHunted,вЂќ were both international thrillers, favoring exoticism in their guns, locations and naked women. The pace slows after those precredits pyrotechnics, a shift signaled immediately by the sight of the hero (the New Zealand actor Antony Starr), now on a motorcycle, cruising past Pennsylvania Dutch farmers in straw hats and white shirts.

(An accompanying online and print graphic novel, вЂњBanshee: Origins,вЂќ certifies the writersвЂ™ taste for cartoon-style storytelling.) This appears to be the first actual TV production either has been involved with. While вЂњBansheeвЂќ has television pros like Greg Yaitanes (вЂњHouse M.D.вЂќ) and Alan Ball (вЂњTrue Blood,вЂќ вЂњSix Feet UnderвЂќ) among its crew of producers and directors, it was developed and written by Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler, a pair of New York novelists and screenwriters with limited practical experience. Perhaps the hyperbolic opening of Friday nightвЂ™s premiere - part comic book, part вЂњDie Hard With a VengeanceвЂќ - reflects some nervousness, an instance of trying too hard to please, on the part of the showвЂ™s creators.

Having checked those items off the hard-boiled mystery manвЂ™s to-do list, he branches out, tracking down an Asian hairdresser-drag queen from his past, getting shot at and chased through the streets of Lower Manhattan and narrowly avoiding death by a sliding double-decker bus.

In the first few minutes the showвЂ™s unnamed hero walks out of prison and down some mood-setting railroad tracks, has sex with a waitress and steals a muscle car.

#Banshee tv cast series

вЂњBanshee,вЂќ the latest action-and-attitude series from Cinemax, comes on strong - almost comically so.