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The Homeland season finale springs a few last-minute surprises
“Paean To The People” is split into roughly two halves. The first is Homeland at its thrilling, suspenseful best, as…
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In the season's penultimate episode, Homeland is all business
Forget Carrie Mathison’s personal life. She certainly has. As the episode title “All In” indicates, Carrie has made her…
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Carrie finally realizes she's the worst parent in the world on Homeland
By the end of “Clarity,” a sense of relief has taken root in the homeland. True, the president appears unhinged, is…
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Homeland hits a note of hysteria as the Russian plot crumbles
Some hard-hearted viewers probably wished it was true—that Carrie really had run over Franny, putting an end to our…
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Plausibility is in shorter supply than usual on Homeland
Homeland has never shied away from wild plot twists, and when doled out properly over the course of a season, they’re…
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Carrie's domestic drama is getting harder to take on Homeland
More often than not, Carrie’s family life has been the bane of Homeland, an ill-advised attempt at humanizing the…
Homeland unveils a twist that pulls the whole season together
It took nearly half the season to get there, but Homeland is finally pulling all of its threads in one direction. If…
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Homeland plugs back into today's headlines with a Russian interference storyline
Previously on Homeland, things were going badly. “Active Measures” turns down the temperature a bit following the…
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Homeland picks up steam as fake news disrupts a fragile truce
This is not fake news: Homeland can still deliver the escalating tension and dread exploding into chaos that made it a…
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Carrie's downward spiral follows a familiar pattern on Homeland
“We’ve been here before,” Carrie Mathison’s sister Maggie astutely notes at one point during “Standoff,” and although…
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Carrie is only as smart as the plot needs her to be on Homeland
It only takes one lapse in judgment to throw a carefully plotted operation into disarray. That goes for Carrie Mathison…
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In its seventh season premiere, Homeland doubles down on its alternative reality
It’s been a long time since anyone could say with a straight face that Homeland held a mirror up to our current…
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Homeland finds a fitting end to its worst season ever
Is Carrie Mathison about to become a terrorist? The likely answer is no, but that’s the question I was left with at the…
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Carrie and Quinn get to know the neighbors as Homeland’s sixth season winds down
Homeland is so hot right now. Not in terms of, like, viewership or critical acclaim or anything like that. But for a…
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Homeland puts up the season’s best episode and hints at a intriguing path forward
Carrie Mathison has been largely missing from this season’s proceedings, leaving all the heavy lifting to others who…
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Homeland dives further into the riveting details of...the Iranian nuclear pact
“Sock Puppets” is probably the closest season six has come to matching the suspense and thrills of classic Homeland,…
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Homeland kills off a beloved character in a tragic fashion
The word “tragedy” gets tossed around pretty often in Homeland, since it’s among the building blocks of speeches about…
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Carrie loses what she values most in a slow, dreary Homeland
To my great joy and dismay, I’ve continued my Homeland rewatch, and it occurs to me about six episodes too late that it…
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Homeland continues its campaign to abuse Peter Quinn
The other day I rewatched the Homeland pilot. A friend of mine, who told me he’s really into spy shows and political…
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Homeland gets sharper as its mysteries start piling up
Homeland began as a show tailor-made for binge watching, and now in its sixth season, it’s still better consumed in…