Dec 19 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland12/19/11ATV ReviewsHomeland12/19/11Homeland: “Marine One”Emily Todd VanDerWerff588SaveWell. That was a day-brightener, eh?
Dec 11 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland12/11/11A-TV ReviewsHomeland12/11/11Homeland: “The Vest”Emily Todd VanDerWerff366SaveLet’s start with what I didn’t quite buy about this episode: I don’t really know that the CIA would have missed a…
Dec 4 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland12/4/11B+TV ReviewsHomeland12/4/11Homeland: “Representative Brody”Emily Todd VanDerWerff307SaveThe reason Carrie Mathison is my favorite new character of this TV season is pretty simple: She throws herself into…
Nov 27 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland11/27/11BTV ReviewsHomeland11/27/11Homeland: "Crossfire"Emily Todd VanDerWerff341SaveThough I mostly enjoyed it, there was something… off about “Crossfire.” It took me a while to put my finger on it,…
Nov 20 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland11/20/11A-TV ReviewsHomeland11/20/11Homeland: “Achilles Heel”Emily Todd VanDerWerff286SaveI genuinely have no idea what’s coming next on Homeland, and I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Nov 13 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland11/13/11ATV ReviewsHomeland11/13/11Homeland: “The Weekend”Emily Todd VanDerWerff363Save“The Weekend” was an episode where I could feel the grade ticking upward in my head as I watched, until I was…
Nov 6 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland11/6/11B+TV ReviewsHomeland11/6/11Homeland: “The Good Soldier”Emily Todd VanDerWerff336SaveI’m dearly hoping Saul Berenson is not a mole. I think it would be a betrayal of the character as built so far, a…
Oct 30 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland10/30/11ATV ReviewsHomeland10/30/11Homeland: “Blind Spot”Emily Todd VanDerWerff291SaveHomeland is a tricky show. More often than not, it figures out a way to thread the needle so you can read it either…
Oct 23 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland10/23/11A-TV ReviewsHomeland10/23/11Homeland: "Semper I"Emily Todd VanDerWerff171SaveOne of the things that’s interesting about Homeland is the way it’s using time. By far the most common way for a TV…
Oct 16 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland10/16/11B+TV ReviewsHomeland10/16/11Homeland: “Clean Skin”Emily Todd VanDerWerff204SaveAllegiance is a tricky thing. In a family or group of friends or workplace, it’s often easy to say that everybody’s…
Oct 9 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland10/9/11A-TV ReviewsHomeland10/9/11Homeland: “Grace”Emily Todd VanDerWerff162SaveAn interesting sequence opens the second episode of Homeland. Brody is dreaming about his time in captivity, when he…
Oct 2 2011SaveTV ReviewsHomeland10/2/11A-TV ReviewsHomeland10/2/11Homeland: HomelandErik Adams and Emily Todd VanDerWerff192SaveThis fall, we’ve got so many writers who’ve seen these pilots that we thought getting two takes on each show would…