Season 4

[maplemood]

It's been only around two weeks since I started it, but I'm finished with Banshee and have NO IDEA what to do with myself, in terms of which show I'll get obsessed with next. Which isn't a bad problem--or even really a problem--to have, but is there another show out there that can top Banshee's mix of total batshit craziness and really genuinely emotional moments? I think not.

Season 4 is probably absolutely the most batshit of them all (Satanism! Serial killers! Satanist serial killers!). At the same time, it might be the most conventional season of all; I saw a review on Amazon where the reviewer complained that season 4 felt too much like something out of Criminal Minds, and...I wouldn't say it felt too much like Criminal Minds, but I also wouldn't say that it didn't feel like Criminal Minds at all. The storylines and their resolutions aren't as unexpected as some of the stuff from earlier seasons, but then there's the ending, which is perfectly bittersweet for some characters and perfectly tragic/awful for others. I loved it. 

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[sholio]

THE SATANIST MURDER SEX CULT. OMG. This show is so bonkers. But yeah, so much fun! And I really liked the ending; I felt like, for the most part, I actually got what I wanted for most characters (with a couple of exceptions, but in general, I was pretty happy with what they did with it).

If you haven't watched Umbrella Academy yet, it might make a good thing to follow this up with, since it is also totally bonkers but very feelsy.

[maplemood]

When I got to that point I was just like..."Well, pretty much every other terrible thing has happened in Banshee, so this might as well," and the way it ended up tying in with Rebecca's murder was actually pretty cool. (Though everything about Rebecca's murder depressed me--I ended up liking her A LOT more than I thought I would, and even though I already knew she was going to die and braced myself for it, it still made me sad.)

I watched the first two episodes of Umbrella Academy before Banshee...happened...so I think I will go back to it now--it's definitely a very different show, but it does also have that bizzaro-heartwarming thing going on. :)