Banshee - Season 2

For those of you who haven’t caught the Cinemax TV show Banshee yet, you should.

I discovered Banshee last year when a couple of episodes had already aired and after watching one episode I was hooked and had to catch up with the episodes I had missed.

An action packed, sex romping, bullet flying array of twists and backstory that never fail to excite is how I would describe Banshee. Cinemax really have got a good one here. The executive producer of the show is Alan Ball, famed for writing American Beauty and HBO series True Blood, the reason I mention this is that there is one major similarity between True Blood and Banshee. Those of you familiar with True Blood will know the character Lafayette played by Nelsan Ellis, a sassy black man who is androgynous as well as being out and proud, for me he was the best thing about True Blood, his laugh out loud one-liners gave an element of comedy which the show needed. In Banshee there is a very similar character played by Hoon Lee named Job (pronounced Jobe). Job is a transvestite computer hacker who is handy with a gun and can kick ass whenever needed, he also as Lafayette has some cracking lines that have me in stitches. I love both these characters and find it hard to pick a favorite as they are so similar but in completely different worlds. It’s also worth noting that these LGBT characters are both ethnic minorities adding a double hit for liberal TV.

I have just finished season 2 of Banshee, which held up well against the first, nothing worse than a good first season followed by a shit sophomore season after a year of waiting. Banshee came back and had me addicted from the start. More violence, sex and story that make it a TV show that is very easy to binge on. The show also adds additional new characters that look as if they are going to have a bigger role in season 3.

Banshee also deals with many issues a favorite of mine of which is the coming of age aspect of people in the Amish community and the rebellion that sometimes occurs. Issues of Native Americans are also shown in the series notable the hierarchy of the tribes and their chiefs. There is also the subject of people from different backgrounds and beliefs integrate in the melting pot that is the United States of America and the possible repercussions of this happening.

I easily think that Banshee is on-par with shows like Breaking Bad, The Wire, True Blood, Game of Thrones etc… but I don’t think Banshee will have the following of these shows, but I cannot figure out why. It is as well written as these shows, it has an incredible cast, it’s beautifully shot and is edited in a unique and very clean, crisp way.

At the moment Banshee is my personal favorite TV series on right now and I urge anyone who hasn’t seen it yet to begin watching it.

Luis Suarez Bites Again.

Luis Suarez decided to bite another player last night in Uruguay’s final group match against Italy at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

This is the third time that Suarez has bit another player; The first was Otman Bakkal a PSV Eindhoven player who was bitten in Suarez last ever match for Ajax in 2011, The second victim was Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic in 2013 and the third (and probably wont be the last) was Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini.

Suarez somehow thinks that it’s ok to bite people (a move that would presumably even get you kicked out of the UFC). I just wish this idiot would bite someone who would kick his ass. Where are Kevin Muscat or Vinnie Jones when you need them? They would have sorted this cocksucker out. I think our best bet would be for Luis Suarez to come up against Joey Barton (which will happen next season) hopefully Joey will do us all a favour and cripple this moron or at the very least knock his teeth out so that he cant so much bite people as gum them.

Enough of vigilante justice, what are FIFA going to do about this? The video is clear, he bites an opposition player the ref sees it and does nothing. Now don’t get me wrong Suarez is probably one of the best footballers in the world at the moment (that’s if you don’t take all the diving and biting in to consideration) but that doesn’t mean that FIFA should just slap him on the wrist with a 10 match ban and a fine as they did last time. I think they really need to pull their fingers out and do something this time! Lets face it what’s a £100,000 fine when that’s just half a weeks wages to him?

If we are using a U.S.A. law stance on this it should be 3 bites and you’re out! Too harsh to ban him from playing? I don’t think so. We are talking about a very talented human who decides to taint his own talent by acting like a complete idiot.

Fuck it. Hang him. Shoot out both his kneecaps and throw him to the lions show him what a real bite feels like.