- Network: SHOWTIME
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 2, 2011
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The first two episodes promise a contemplative sixth as opposed to a shock-and-awe one.
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It’s smart writing for smart characters. Six seasons in and Danes and the writers keep Carrie a complicated character who sometimes does the wrong thing.
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It’s in these studious details that Homeland gains its veteran edge. By Season 6, we know these characters quite well. The extreme situations surrounding them force development and drama, but the writers know to craft seemingly innocuous dialogue that cuts deep or casually incorporate key details that come back in a big way.
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One questionable character aside, Homeland is off to a strong start and the new setting is a great change of scenery.
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In Homeland (as in “24,” also from the executive producer Howard Gordon), we look forward to the questions almost as much as to the answers. In the meantime, there’s more than enough pleasure to be had from the cast to keep us interested.
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It’s a solid enough re-start to a series that Showtime already has renewed for two more seasons beyond this one.
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At this point, its plot development feels as ruthlessly competent as its characters. It’s not revelatory, but it’s also much better than most shows in their sixth seasons can claim to be.
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Homeland might have learned how to turn its history into an asset, but it also can’t escape the fact that, like most shows with long runs, it can do little to surprise us anymore. Danes keeps Carrie watchable through the sheer force of her charisma, and Patinkin is always a treat.
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The first two episodes set up enough surprises and double-crosses to suggest a promising new season.
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Ultimately, Homeland‘s first two episodes do enough to earn your interest. But it feels a lot like Quinn: haunted by the past, disoriented in the present, and perhaps incapable of moving into the future.
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While the last few seasons have kicked off with sound and fury, Season 6 is quiet and taking its time to build its case. For fans still here through six seasons, it’s a safe bet that we’ll keep giving it time, wherever it may lead.
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Homeland has lost the sense that it’s always a step ahead of our real-life worries. Besides transitional indigestion at the CIA, there’s not enough going on.
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With only the first couple of episodes to go on, it's too soon to tell if this is going to be one of those seasons where Homeland stretches credibility like overworked taffy, or if it turns out to be so intense we can overlook plot holes.
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Just because these first two episodes are going for something slower and ostensibly more thoughtful doesn't mean it won't be back on 24 terrain by midseason, and that probably wouldn't hurt, because these early episodes aren't really what Homeland does best.
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The overwhelming sense of a work drained of vitality-- of a series once rich in suspense of the most brilliantly imagined kind, especially in the past two seasons, now flattened, on the evidence of the first episodes, to a deadly predictability, all of it the inevitable result of works dedicated to sermonizing.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 76 out of 125
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Mixed: 22 out of 125
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Negative: 27 out of 125
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Feb 11, 2017
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Jan 30, 2017This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Mar 4, 2017