Homeland

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Season 5
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 2, 2011
Season #: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 172 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 132 out of 172
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 172
  3. Negative: 24 out of 172
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  1. RaiderRow
    Dec 10, 2015
    3
    I got to episode 6 and couldn't do it anymore. How the mighty have fallen: to think just a few seasons ago, I thought this might be one of the greatest shows ever made for TV. It seems the creators hadn't given much thought to the direction of the show after the great Brody story ended since last season saw the start of its decline in cohesive story lines and creativity. If you thoughtI got to episode 6 and couldn't do it anymore. How the mighty have fallen: to think just a few seasons ago, I thought this might be one of the greatest shows ever made for TV. It seems the creators hadn't given much thought to the direction of the show after the great Brody story ended since last season saw the start of its decline in cohesive story lines and creativity. If you thought last season barely made it through, I guarantee that you will not finish this one except to see how it ends!… Expand
  2. ZeljkoPantic
    Jun 2, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Unbelievable bad season of one of the most intelligent series of all time. Almost everything is rebooted at the level of essentially brand new TV show, with very slim connection to any previous plot. Too long scenes aimed to produce 12 episodes, although there is no more material for 6 normal episodes, I just finished looking episode 5, this is one of the worst episodes of any TV series I ever looked in my life. Peter Quinn, as a professional hit man, after several days of fever caused by a gun wound, decides to kill himself wrapping his right arm to a cement brick(?!), and jump into river, but there is a random men from the street sent from God to stop him, five minutes after, same guy is again in the right time at the right place, after Peter Quinn(no one knows why?) desperately tries to open some regular street garbage container and goes to a black out. Russian KGB villain goes with Ciao Cacao farewell/greeting/joke to a double agent in CIA?! Russian Ciao Cacao? Holding hands, stay a little longer with me please? Is this a soap or a spy TV show? I am a huge fan of this show, this season is so below anything in previous four seasons, that is just can't understand why someone destroyed such a good story with such a bad scenario.… Expand
  3. joeygrace
    Oct 19, 2015
    3
    I am a big Homeland follower but this season leaves me cold. The weak storyline and low action over the first three episodes makes it hard to watch. This season doesn't compare to past seasons.
  4. akila1
    Jan 12, 2016
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm glad I waited to the end of the season to write my review. I did not like the way the writers handled the Peter Quinn character. It made Carrie seem very cold and unlikable. I loathed the fact that Showtime appears to have killed him off after torturing him all season long. He is one of the more interesting characters in the show. So, this season for the abuse of actor Rupert Friend you have been downgraded to 2 stars from the usual 10 stars. (harsh? SO is death by sarin gas) I DO pay a monthly fee for this channel!!… Expand
  5. pbc845
    Oct 21, 2015
    2
    As a Homeland fan it kills me to say this season so far is horrible. Who wrote season 5? Were the original writers kidnapped and being held in a Pakistani black site. I just don't understand what happened. As said before the story is weak, almost silly. Please pay the ransom and get the original writers back.
  6. Ljster
    Dec 14, 2015
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This season is so disappointing as it is so unbelievably silly. Yeah, the CIA suspects that one of theirs is a double agent so they let her free to run around covering up her tracks, murdering and giving misinformation (which of course they believe). Stupid. Meanwhile, Quinn has now become the new Superman. Within 9 days gets shot, almost dies and then is subjected to nerve gas. I'm surprised he didn't jump out of his hospital bed to search for the terrorists. Oh wait, that's probably next episode!
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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Sophie Gilbert
    Jan 13, 2017
    80
    For now, at least, Homeland is back with a surprising show of force.
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  2. Slate
    Reviewed by: Jonathan L. Fischer
    Oct 5, 2015
    60
    Viewers will have to decide how much good faith the show earned with its redemptive fourth season as its fifth one crawls in the direction of a plot. If this is the season in which Homeland aims to resolve its own contradictions and to deliver to its tortured characters some measure of understanding or peace, it would benefit, as my colleague Willa Paskin has noted, from a little bit more crazy.
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  3. Denver Post
    Reviewed by: Joanne Ostrow
    Oct 5, 2015
    70
    The CIA office politics are getting old, but the topical references remain gripping.
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