With this weekend's s2 premiere of the martial arts epic #WarriorMAX, a decade of better-than-they-needed-to-be Cinemax pulp dramas begins its ending. I wrote a tribute to 10 years of shows that kicked ass: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/warrior-season-2-cinemax-pulp-strike-back-banshee-1065116/

The piece also talks about how frustrating it is that none of these fun shows are on HBO Max (though this is apparently in the process of changing), which is why I had to buy the second Strike Back episode just to make this gif of the first of many bonkers action scenes:

A few other Cinemax action highlights: Burton fights Nola early in Banshee season 3, in a great example of a show talking up two characters' bonafides and then living up to the talk:

The climactic fight scene from #WarriorMAX s1: (Season 2 has several fights that are even bigger and longer.)

Quarry doesn't get talked about as much as the other Cinemax shows (to the extent that anybody talks about any of them), but among the things I liked was how clear the action always was, even in darkness, like this late night shootout: