'Requiem' is sentimental without being saccharine, making terrific use of the staccato editing style that served to define the series so much throughout its previous three seasons, so that the memories it touched on became important characters beats within the hour, not just a means to service the wistfulness of the fans.Īnd so 'Requiem' set out to tie up its many loose ends with varying levels of success. And the Tropper-scripted final hour does a great job of servicing as many of those elements as possible, without leaning too hard on a sense of nostalgia. There's a need to acknowledge all that has come before, while still servicing the uncertain future of many characters who will go on living well past the time we get to spend with them. Finales are a tough business one that television doesn't often get right. With Bode eliminated in last week's bloody and much more Banshee-like hour, the show was able to find its footing for a solid and assured hour of television that didn't miss a beat or waste a minute of what precious time it had left. But for all of the time devoted to Bode, the storyline was just unable to reconcile itself with the many larger, more important themes running through the show over the course of its latter two fantastic seasons. Had Bode done something more than simply consume a vast majority of the narrative real estate that should have been devoted to characters like Hood, Carrie, Job, Kai and definitely Sugar, there may have been some weight to the murder-filled storyline beyond the dark, surface-level aesthetics of one man bringing about so many unpleasant deaths.
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While it's easy to see how a serial killer plot line might have given Banshee an interesting edge to cut through the normal narrative rigmarole and difficulties of a final season, Bode and his horns just didn't quite manage to muster up anything outside of the usual unpleasant dreariness that goes hand-in-hand with such storylines.
The season's storyline needed him to be something more than just a nut job passing through he needed to convey an actual sense of terror and to create genuine tension, so that Veronica's arrival and the implications of Rebecca's murder could have greater impact on the final season as a whole. Bode had a weird but convivial vibe to him – especially when he was mixing some drinks while engaging in casual conversation with Veronica as she was waiting to have her heart cut out – meaning he could have gone down in the annals of great Banshee weirdoes like Burton (or even the obese Brantley from 'A Fixer of Sorts'), but that wasn't to be. Bode and his horn implants, his devoted followers prone to setting themselves on fire and aiding and abetting in his ritualistic slaying of young women, then, fit the bill of a potentially great one-off episode, wherein Eliza Dushku's drug-addled FBI agent Veronica Dawson could step into the shoes of the great Dennis O'Hare when he walked into the life of one Lucas Hood as Agent Robert Phillips.Īll the ingredients for an off-kilter and memorable presentation were there. The series had always been adept at delivering offbeat elements that somehow felt congruous with the larger character arcs and themes running throughout the overarching idea of a man in search of an identity, so it was no surprise, then, that the show might try its hand at throwing the audience a curveball in its last go-round, one that would not only attempt to facilitate several satisfying endings for the cast of characters inhabiting the not-so-sleepy little Pennsylvania burg, but also work well within the behind-the-scenes changes, like the shift from filming in North Carolina to Pittsburgh, and the fact the series' usual season order of ten episodes had been cut to eight.īefore the season started, series co-creator Jonathan Tropper talked about some of Banshee's greatest hits, like ' The Truth About Unicorns' and ' A Fixer of Sorts' – episodes from which a large part of the show's reputation for taking creative risks came from – and likened the season 4 plot of a Satan-worshipping serial killer within the Banshee city limits to an extended, multi-hour version of one of those unconventional hours. With its reputation for being a pulpy, eccentric, and often-terrific crime series, Banshee stepped into its final season with considerable expectations.
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