Yes, very. More sad than 91% of well-known series. This describes how the series comes across across its whole run, measured against other well-known series; it is not a content list.

Is Banished easy watching?

Barely. Less comforting than 88% of well-known series. This describes how the series comes across across its whole run, measured against other well-known series; it is not a content list.

Does Banished leave you hopeful?

Not especially. Less hopeful than 73% of well-known series. This describes how the series comes across across its whole run, measured against other well-known series; it is not a content list.

Somewhat. More violent than 71% of well-known series. This describes how the series comes across across its whole run, measured against other well-known series; it is not a content list.

Banished

Name: Banished
Genre: Drama
Released: 2015
Rating: 7.214
Cast: Isabelle Estelle Corbusier, Orla Brady, Ewen Bremner, MyAnna Buring, Ryan Corr

Created by Jimmy McGovern

On BBC Two

20151 season7 episodes60 min7.2 / 10

A bleak, morally searching period drama about survival and faith in a penal colony, where intimate human stakes collide with systemic brutality.

Banished is a British period drama television serial created by Jimmy McGovern. The seven-part serial first aired on BBC Two from 5 March to 16 April 2015. It received mixed reviews, with most of the criticism for its perceived inaccuracies to the depicted events. Though set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.

Clusters

History's moral weight, thrillingly grim Grief, Guilt, and the Long Investigation Guilt, Memory, and Broken Trust Haunted Fates, Fractured Worlds

Genres

Drama

Keywords

Prisoner Colony Australia Period Drama 18th Century Historical Drama

Questions people ask

Is Banished sad? Yes, very. More sad than 91% of series.
Is Banished easy watching? Barely. Less comforting than 88% of series.
Is Banished scary? Yes. More frightening than 79% of series.
Does Banished leave you hopeful? Not especially. Less hopeful than 73% of series.
Is Banished violent? Somewhat. More violent than 71% of series.

These describe how the series comes across across its whole run, compared with other well-known series. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked episode by episode, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

Banished

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