"What I am good with is kicking ass and ripping throats."
----- MacGruber
Holy shit, that first fight was intense. As much as I like Odette Annable, I've been wanting to see an epic Hood vs. Burton fight for forever, so I'm glad he survived this one to kick ass another day, and apparently has Wolverine healing powers like everyone else on the show.
The fight choreography and the cinematography during the scene was stunning, and worthy of being on the big screen. The way the camera panned in and out and around the car to follow the fight was fantastic.
Any other show would have made that fight the final scene of a major closing arc, but Banshee gets it out of the way in the first ten minutes of the third episode of the season, and then goes on to give you two other huge action setpieces and a major cliffhanger as well. I love this show.
Chayton is gonna be so pissed. His brother and his ex-girlfriend are dead by the hand of the Banshee Sheriff's Dept. and Procter's goon. Hopefully that means we'll be getting an epic Chayton vs. Hood vs. Procter fight soon too, although the last time they tried that it took three Banshee deputies plus Hood to sort of beat him, so Hood's gonna have to try something different.
I'm glad the FBI agent played by Denis O'Hare lived, as his grudging respect for Hood and his life debt can lead to some interesting developments in the future.
They really just dumped a huge dummy filled with fake viscera under the truck, no CGI there.
I loved the humor in the scenes with the secretary on the truck amidst so much carnage.
This was easily one of the top five episodes of all of Banshee so far, and we still have seven episodes ahead of us to round out the season.