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If you are finding it therapeutic to watch #Reacher kick the absolute shit out of bad people, let me assure you that the violence in that show is a pleasant Tennessee whiskey of asskicking and the violence in the 2013-2016 show #Banshee is liver-curdling moonshine. Way past "Oh shit!" and well into "Holy mother of gawd."

In that show, #AntonyStarr (later famous as Homelander on #TheBoys) plays a just out of prison tough who tracks the woman he loves to a small town in Pennsylvania... and through a series of events, ends up running a long-term con pretending to be the new Sherriff.

The show is by Alan Ball (#TrueBlood) and the team that later made #Warrior. It's essentially the trappings of an 80's/90's Cinemax programmer elevated by clever writing into a lurid, noirish delight.

The whole show is on #Max and there's hardly an episode where someone doesn't get pulverized. I'm talking #OldBoy level fight scenes.

Ever since I watched the scene in “The Boys” season 1 where #homelander says “I’m the homelander, and I can do whatever the fuck I want” it’s been hard for me to argue for anyone else being a better #actor than #AntonyStarr. Even now I’ll rewatch that scene multiple times just for the fun of seeing someone so in character you feel that that must just be who they are.