That sturdiness serves him and the series well, as Hood's final moment with Carrie is perhaps the finale's strongest. And in true Banshee fashion, Kai goes out in a Tommy gun blaze of glory after a terrific fight scene where Hood faces off against a more skilled opponent but emerges victorious thanks in large part to his astonishing durability. To find that Burton had killed Rebecca because he saw her as a threat to Kai's future gave his end at the hands of both Hood and the man he was so devoted to an appropriate sense of finality to a number of important threads. The various other endings were also in keeping with the tone and themes of the series. That in and of itself became a nice nod to an underlying theme of identity in the show, just as Brock's nod to Hood was the perfect send off between the two men – especially in light of Hood's confession in the penultimate episode. It would have been nice if Kurt Bunker and his ongoing battle against his brother had been a larger part of the series overall – if for no other reason than to justify the time it was given during the finale – but the show managed to pay it off with his and Brock's discussion of how the law in Banshee sometimes has to be more like Lucas Hood in order to get the job done. It was not unlike Job's retribution on the Damon Lindelof doppelgänger Leo Fitzpatrick last week, and helped kick off a series of fulfilling moments that brought everything to a close.Īs it cruised through its final set pieces, Banshee managed to do right by just about every character. Carrie and Job's dismantling of Kai's drug shipment – which gave Brock maybe his greatest moment in a long line of great moments – helped alleviate the burden of Gordon's death that had been weighing so heavily on Carrie. Still, the finale made up for these inconsistencies where it could. '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. 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. All the ingredients for an off-kilter and memorable presentation were there.
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