Banshee: Season 3

Produced for Cinemax, Banshee is a series that features elements for which the pay cable channel is best known—action, violence, sex, and pulp-oriented stories—cleverly mixed together to create a tightly-plotted crime series with vivid characters and novel twists. Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) is a career criminal turned sheriff—of a town controlled by an Amish gangster (Ulrich Thomsen)—who uses the cover of his job in the law to pull robberies with his gang: wild-child former girlfriend Carrie (Ivana Milicevic), who is now wife of the mayor; world-class hacker Job (Hoon Lee); and onetime boxer Sugar (Frankie Faison). This season, the team targets a military base being run by a corrupt commander who safeguards (and skims from) cash designated to be shipped overseas, with the heist presented from the POV of a series of surveillance cameras. Meanwhile, Lucas takes on a militant Native American militia leader (Geno Segers) who declares war on white society and lays siege to the police station. What makes Lucas a compelling character is that he is serious about protecting the town and he applies his criminal skills to policing, while also pulling real cops into his rogue missions. Presenting all 10 episodes from the 2015 third season, extras include episode commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, webisodes, and deleted scenes. Co-created by novelist Jonathan Tropper (This Is Where I Leave You), this is recommended. (S. Axmaker)