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Returning: Banshee

Not quite express from the US, but Season Two begins next week.

2014-01-06_2230Season Two of Alan Ball’s Banshee begins on FOX8 next week.

It stars New Zealander Antony Starr as ex-convict Lucas Hood who improbably assumes the identity of sheriff of the rural, Amish-area town of Banshee, where his former lover and partner-in-crime lives under her own alias, Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic).

Not quite express from the US, it has been rescheduled to 8.30pm Thursday January 16, five days after the US season premiere.

Season 2 (10 episodes) takes up immediately after the S1 finale, when Carrie’s father, gang kingpin Rabbit (Ben Cross) was left for dead after a climactic warehouse shootout. Carrie, now exposed and estranged from her husband and kids, is torn between her devotion to her family and her connection to Lucas, who had given himself up in order to save her years earlier.

The new season finds Lucas, having escaped detection after being interrogated by FBI agent Jim Racine (guest star Zeljko Ivanek), with his hands fuller than ever as sheriff, dealing with (among other things) the murder of a Kinaho tribe girl, the continuing escalation of tensions between Amish overlord Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen) and Kinaho tribe leader Alex Longshadow (Anthony Ruivivar), and the unwelcome appearance of a surprise visitor: the reprobate son of the real (dead) Lucas Hood.

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