Banshee: The Complete Fourth Season (2016 aka Final Season/Cinemax/HBO Blu-ray Set)

Picture: B+ Sound: B Extras: A Episodes: A-

It's the Final Season, after 2 years of MIA former convict 'Lucas Hood' (Antony Starr) returns to Banshee, but not by choice. A series of cases of serial murders has been haunting Banshee and has both Proctor and Sheriff baffled ...and they need Hood back more than ever. But things have changed in Banshee: Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen) is now mayor, Brock (Matt Servitto) is now the Sheriff and his friends are scattered. Banshee now has more killers, rapists, former black ops military, ex cons and unsavory sorts than ever ...and would prefer to see Hood dead.

Former Sheriff 'Lucas Hood' was an ex-con pretending to be the sheriff in the small town of Banshee and the only reason he came to Banshee was to find his former lover, but she had already remarried and moved on with her life. While he was sheriff (for those unfamiliar with the series without spoiling anything), he met Proctor, a former Amish turned kingpin who control most of Banshee and later turned into the Mayor of Banshee. And while Proctor and Hood never got along, they respected of each other's use of violence, Proctor used it to get rich and Hood used it to serve justice. They are forced to set aside their differences when Proctor's niece was found murdered and they discover Banshee was almost taken over by Satanists, American Aryan Neo Nazis and the Mexican Cartel.

Set in a fictional town in Pennsylvania, Banshee is a town for the fallen. The series (and town) filled with former criminals, assassins and murderers are so bad, convicts are the sheriffs, crime lords run the government and if you killed anyone in Banshee they 1) probably had it coming and 2) probably also richly deserved it. The series reminded of more like a modern Deadwood and is filled with violence, sex and drama. Characters were all anti-heroes with quiet personalities that quickly turned to violence as an answer to all problems; a hit for good reasons, quitting while they are all ahead.

As has been the case all along with the previous three seasons on Blu-ray (all reviewed elsewhere on this site), the 1080p High Definition with a widescreen aspect ratio of 1.78:1 and a lossless DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 track are pretty much top rate presentations here for a TV series and very high quality in playback throughout. Extras this time include commentaries, deleted scenes, cast retrospective and Banshee Origins.

- Ricky Chiang