For three seasons, Homeland has been having it both ways with the exceedingly charismatic Damian Lewis.
Ultimately, it isn’t luck or faith that Homeland is interested in, but humanity.
More a matter of what Homeland needs to move forward than what viewers might actually want, but it’s a necessary evil.
Carrie’s actions may be morally correct, but they work against the greater needs of the country, and so she’s not permitted to act on her own.
“Gerontion” could succeed as nothing more than a forum for discussing the pros and cons of the “ends justify the means” idiom.
Based on the title of this week’s episode of Homeland, the question seems to be how much anyone can actually know, or be “positive” about.
“The Yoga Play,” both the episode and the spy tactic that Carrie uses within it, is little more than a distraction.
Every sacrifice the series has made up to this point now feels redeemed.
This week’s relentlessly bleak Homeland finally catches the audience up on what Nicholas Brody has been up to.
You can remodel a bathroom, but you can’t remodel a human being; intangible things, like reputations, are not so easily mended.
Like Dana Brody’s storyline, Peter Quinn’s mission is also lazily dramatic and lacks subtlety.
Tension hums below the surface of each scene of season three of Homeland, the personal stakes for almost every character higher than ever.
TV better than movies? Not really, but at least television will let you see Michael Douglas stroking Matt Damon’s leg hair.
Now that the series has received its Emmy coronation, the element of surprise has been replaced with high expectations.
Homeland is the perfect show for a post-9/11 America, a nation united not by trust, but by suspicion.
What we talk about when we talk about Palestine often isn’t the landmass.