Homeland
SHOWTIME | Release Date: October 2, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 143 Critic Reviews
Positive:
124
Mixed:
19
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardSep 28, 2012
Season 2 Review: If the first two episodes are any indication, this season of Homeland will be about Carrie not only recovering her balance but finding a measure of redemption. That's a trip worth taking. Read full review
91
HitfixAlan SepinwallSep 28, 2012
Season 2 Review: It's still Homeland, and it's good. Read full review
100
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleySep 28, 2012
Season 2 Review: With the bar set at Emmy, Homeland has little room to falter. With this return episode, it doesn't. Read full review
100
RedEyeCurt WagnerSep 28, 2012
Season 2 Review: The story remains completely realistic and believable while paving new roads for future developments. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 27, 2012
Season 2 Review: The show doesn't seem to have lost any ballast moving forward from the intensity of season one. Read full review
100
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 27, 2012
Season 2 Review: There's nothing about the two episodes I've seen that makes me think the second season won't be as addictive as the first. Read full review
100
USA TodayRobert BiancoSep 27, 2012
Season 2 Review: Despite its depth and ambition, this is one great drama that never becomes cumbersome--it never feels like a chore imposed upon us by the God of High TV Art. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandSep 27, 2012
Season 2 Review: Sunday's season premiere sustains the quality of the first season, continues the story line in a completely credible way, and then opens up even more possibilities for future plot developments. Read full review
90
Washington PostNed MartelSep 27, 2012
Season 2 Review: Take a look at the second season's first episodes, and you'll see it in a nervy concoction of writing and acting. Read full review
100
SalonWilla PaskinSep 27, 2012
Season 2 Review: The series' thriller engine turns on, turns over and begins to purr. Read full review
100
NewsdayVerne GaySep 26, 2012
Season 2 Review: Bigger, brassier and even more thrilling, Homeland has boosted the stakes. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineScott Von DoviakSep 26, 2012
Season 2 Review: Even when the spy-thriller plot gears are audibly grinding, the acting remains expertly calibrated. Read full review
90
VarietyBrian LowrySep 24, 2012
Season 2 Review: Once the narrative begins hitting its stride in the second episode, it's clear the program remains on a rarefied creative tier, tantalizingly mixing terrific performances with anything-can-happen edge. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerSep 20, 2012
Season 2 Review: It's the suspense these two leads endure--a suspense Homeland dramatizes in a swift, sure manner and then transfers to the viewer--that makes this show so unnervingly terrific. Read full review
100
New York PostLinda StasiSep 20, 2012
Season 2 Review: Without a doubt, Homeland is the best drama on TV right now. Read full review
75
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardOct 3, 2011
Season 1 Review: What seems like a straightforward question--Is Nick a traitor to his country?--might be the most devilishly complicated thing to answer, and definitely worth pursuing in this complex show. Read full review
90
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinOct 3, 2011
Season 1 Review: Homeland is an absolutely riveting immersion in the paranoia and burnout of America after a decade of the war on terrorism. Read full review
100
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan StormOct 3, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's no lie to say you don't get this sort of stylish and challenging stuff very frequently on TV, adult subject matter treated maturely in a series that makes you squirm and think. Read full review
80
PopMattersMichael LandweberOct 3, 2011
Season 1 Review: Unlike their previous show [24], Homeland takes its time: it doesn't make clear right away who's trustworthy and who's a traitor. Based on the first episode's strong script and performances, it looks as though the reveal will be worth the wait. Read full review
100
SalonMatt Zoller SeitzOct 3, 2011
Season 1 Review: [Homeland] sounds as though it could have been pitched as "The Manchurian Candidate: The Series." But set that aside, if you can, and look at what's on-screen, because it'll reward your attention. Read full review
100
TimeJames PoniewozikSep 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: I can't recommend the series highly enough, particularly for the phenomenal performances by Lewis and Danes. Read full review
100
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzSep 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: Once you watch the first episode, it's going to be hard standing the wait for the next. Read full review
80
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Liz Kelly NelsonSep 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: We're looking forward to the rest of the season to watch this finely drawn mystery unravel. Read full review
91
HitfixAlan SepinwallSep 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: Homeland functions terrifically as both a thriller and a commentary on our post-post-9/11 world, where the War on Terror and the concept of being constantly under surveillance are both facts of life. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleySep 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: Despite living on pay-cable, Homeland also doesn't feel obliged to create explicit moments just because it can. But it's also possible it's just keeping something in reserve--a lot like its compelling characters. Read full review
100
New York PostLinda StasiSep 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: Showtime's edgy, edge-of-your-seat series, is, bar none, the best thriller on American TV. Read full review
100
People WeeklyTom GliattoSep 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: [A] taut, ingenious spy series. [10 Oct 2011, p.44]
100
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandSep 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: There are a couple of bush-league moments in the show....[But]those are minor quibbles, made even more insignificant by the extraordinary performances of Danes, Lewis, Patinkin and Baccarin. Read full review
100
USA TodayRobert BiancoSep 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: Danes and Lewis are near-flawless, keeping you off-balance and absorbed. Read full review
100
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: Homeland also manages to be both an addictive espionage thriller and a compelling character study, as well as a well-constructed exploration of the difficulties and ambiguities of fighting terrorism a decade after Sept. 11. Without a doubt, it is one of the finest new shows of the year. Read full review
100
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraSep 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's the first telling of a post-9/11 story that is all the things it should be: politically resonant, emotionally wrenching and plain old thrilling to watch. Read full review
100
NewsdayDiane WertsSep 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: Showtime lets them take their time to spin serpentine story lines, gradually pulling us deep into one very sticky, scary web of intrigue. Read full review
80
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GraySep 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: [There's] a level of ambiguity executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa might not have gotten away with when they were writing for Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer on "24," but it's part of what makes Homeland, adapted from an Israeli series created by Gideon Raff, one of the season's most intriguing dramas. Read full review
90
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenSep 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: Viewers hungering for a twisty-turny, who's-right-who's-wrong thriller will find it in Showtime's domestic terrorism drama Homeland. Read full review
90
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleySep 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: Carrie is hard to like, but Homeland is almost impossible to resist. Read full review
100
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushSep 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: Shows like Homeland have a way of keeping us deliciously off balance. Can't think of a place I'd rather be or a show I'd more highly recommend. Read full review
100
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's compelling, enthralling and steeped in current realities. Read full review
80
VarietyBrian LowrySep 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: Like "Manchurian Candidate," Homeland does some of its best work via flashbacks to Brody's time in captivity, sprinkling additional tidbits with each glimpse into the past. Read full review
63
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesChuck BarneySep 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: Homeland has a chance to be a much tighter--and smarter--endeavor with more nuance than "24" ever had. But if a cougar suddenly appears, and/or if someone comes back from the dead, all bets are off. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineAaron RiccioSep 27, 2011
Season 1 Review: When it gets past such clunkiness, Homeland is eerily effective. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerSep 26, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's the fall season's most intriguing, tense puzzler. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Of all the drama pilots I watched, this was my favorite. Read full review
91
Washington PostHank StueverSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: What makes Homeland rise above other post-9/11 dramas is Danes's stellar performance as Carrie--easily this season's strongest female character, who is also hiding some personal secrets of her own. The latter half of the first episode is exhilarating. I'm hooked. Read full review
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