“Paean To The People” is split into roughly two halves. The first is Homeland at its thrilling, suspenseful best, as Saul and his team attempt to make their getaway from Russia with Simone in tow while Carrie acts as a decoy. The second is more of an extended epilogue, or a series of endnotes, some which are executed…

As initially teased way back in 2016, it looks like Homeland will really be coming to an end after one more season. That’s according to star Claire Danes, who would know better than anyone, as she recently appeared on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show and confirmed that the show’s eighth season will be its last. Danes…

By the end of “Clarity,” a sense of relief has taken root in the homeland. True, the president appears unhinged, is firing people left and right, and is about to precipitate a constitutional crisis, but that hardly raises an eyebrow these days. The important thing is that Carrie Mathison has relinquished custody of…

Some hard-hearted viewers probably wished it was true—that Carrie really had run over Franny, putting an end to our long national nightmare. I won’t go that far, but I do hope this is the event that finally triggers the realization in Carrie that she is the most unfit parent on the planet. That would at least spare us…

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Homeland has never shied away from wild plot twists, and when doled out properly over the course of a season, they’re often quite entertaining. If too many of them are piled up within one hour, however, discerning viewers such as yourselves and your humble reviewer can’t help but feel jerked around. “Lies, Amplifiers,…

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More often than not, Carrie’s family life has been the bane of Homeland, an ill-advised attempt at humanizing the character through numbing repetition. This is tiresome and unnecessary because, seven seasons into this show, we know very well who Carrie Mathison is. (Notice how Saul’s private life has become a complete…

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Previously on Homeland, things were going badly. “Active Measures” turns down the temperature a bit following the explosive end to the standoff; it’s more of a simmer than a full boil, but the potential for another eruption is never far off. As Saul arrives at a federal building in Richmond, Virginia, tensions are…

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This is not fake news: Homeland can still deliver the escalating tension and dread exploding into chaos that made it a hit in the first place. “Like Bad At Things” is easily the best episode of the season, and maybe in years. It’s not perfect—there’s still a little too much of Carrie’s domestic drama for my liking—but…

“We’ve been here before,” Carrie Mathison’s sister Maggie astutely notes at one point during “Standoff,” and although Carrie denies it, those of us who have watched all six-plus seasons of Homeland know exactly what Maggie is talking about. It’s not just that Carrie is back in a full-blown manic state, unable to…

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It only takes one lapse in judgment to throw a carefully plotted operation into disarray. That goes for Carrie Mathison as well as the writers of Homeland, in this case Patrick Harbinson and Chip Johannessen. “Rebel Rebel” is very much a stage-setting hour for the rest of the season, with most of the suspense…

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