Nightmare Fuel / Banshee

There's nothing to laugh about here...

Banshee presents itself as an idyllic town like any other... but don't believe it for one second...

Season 1

• The pilot episode features the real Lucas Hood gunned down in a shootout with two burglars. There's a massive hold in his right hand and he's bleeding fast. Right off the bat, this show makes one thing clear: This is reality, and in the real world, anyone can die.
• In The Rave a bunch of kids at the party go into shock from a new drug, including Deva. Lucas manages to save her, but not the Senator's son. The scene of her and him foaming at the mouth is not pretty to watch...
  • The drug dealer responsible is tortured by Proctor, for causing the death of the state senator's son, and his finger is cut off by Burton and fed to one the guard dogs. Then Burton lets the dogs loose on him. You don't need to guess what happens next.
  • This scene also contains massive Squick due to the fact that Proctor cuts the dealer's finger off, then immediately goes back to eating, with the same knife.
• Damien Sanchez, initially appearing as a charming and handsome MMA fighter, turns out to be a sadomasochist, as one Hooker finds out the hard way. When she tries to resist, Sanchez beats her and rapes her.
  • Lucas Hood's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of Sanchez, after the fact. Possibly spurred by Siobhan. He initially gets his ass kicked, due to Sanchez being bigger and stronger, and a better fighter, but then starts fighting dirty. REAL DIRTY. He uses several glasses as bludgeoning tools, then bites his leg to escape a choke hold, then rips his goddamn fingers apart. Sanchez's bloodcurling screams are disturbing to say the least, even if he was a total Jerkass.
    • The fact that Lucas learned these tactics from receiving a beating while in prison...
• Lucas ripping the ear off of one of the Moody boys.
• Carrie being assaulted by an abusive biker in broad daylight. If Siobhan hadn't come around the corner... the biker would not have received a quick death.
  • The bikers' retaliation at Siobhan for killing one of their own. They slash her car tires, force her out of her own house and then burn it to the ground.
• Hood's beating at the hands of the Albino. He takes everything Lucas throws at him and counters it without a sweat. He even breaks Lucas' knuckles by blocking a punch with his elbow. Then he stabs Lucas in the ribs, non-lethally, leaving him a bloodied heap on the floor.
• Hood's revenge is even more terrifying. After pretending to submit to the Albino, Lucas "asks for it." When the Albino exposes his genatalia, Hood stabs it, and summarily cuts it off. Despite this, the Albino fights back, attempting to strangle Hood, only to get his eyes gouged out. Even then, it's not until Lucas jumps onto his back chokes him, that he stops. And for good measure, he places the Albino's head atop a barbell, then drops a Dumbbell on the back of his neck.
  • His brutal assault on the Albino's "butt-boy" Billy beforehand was not nice either.
• Two thugs hold Deva and several students hostage at her school. Carrie, who had just sold Hood out to Rabbit, now finds her daughter in peril and has no way of getting to her. Lucas gets this as well, when he sees it on the TV of the Motel room.
• The fight Olek and Carrie AKA Anastasia. If you thought they might go easy on each other because of their bond, you would be wrong. Dead wrong. The fight lasts for the majority of the episode with both sides getting the better of each other at some point, Olek overpowers her due to his sheer strength, forcing Ana to resort to using whatever she can find as a weapon, from a chair to window panes, and even tries to hang him. None of it takes. What's even creepier, is the fact he's clearly enjoying every minute of it.
  • At the end of her strength, Anastasia attempts to skewer him with a sharp plank of wood. Olek promptly halts her strike, then grabs her wrists, and forces the plank into her own chest.
  • Olek's death. stabbed through the spine by the same plank that Carrie had to rip out of her chest. And then she forces through his neck for good measure.
• Max getting kidnapped while Carrie can't do a damn thing about it.
• Lucas' torture at the hands of Rabbit and his men is not easy to watch, especially when the plastic bag is used to suffocate him.
• The battle between Rabbit's men and the Banshee Police deserves special mention. Especially when Lotus shoots an RPG wielding member, causing him to blow up two of his comrades, blasting their remains across the room.

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4