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  • ABC
  • Jan 6, 2009
  • ABC
  • Jan 6, 2009
Homeland Security USA

Summary Shot in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, this ABC reality series documents the functions of United States border agencies and their efforts to stop illegal immigration and smuggling. Based on the 2004 Australian series Border Security: Australia's Front Line, the U.S. version will spotlight a number of U.S. bord...

  • ABC
  • Jan 6, 2009
  • ABC
  • Jan 6, 2009
Homeland Security USA
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jan 6, 2009
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Shot in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, this ABC reality series documents the functions of United States border agencies and their efforts to stop illegal immigration and smuggling. Based on the 2004 Australian series Border Security: Australia's Front Line, the U.S. version will spotlight a number of U.S. bord...

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 6, 2009
This Is Your Car on Drugs
Episode 2 • Jan 13, 2009
Looks Like It's Been Through an Autopsy
Episode 3 • Jan 27, 2009
It's Not a Cow. It's a Guinea Pig.
Episode 4 • Feb 3, 2009
These Are Human Skulls So They Had to Belong to Somebody
Episode 5 • Feb 17, 2009
I Did One Stupid Mistake
Episode 6 • Feb 24, 2009
Manatees? Y'Know, Whatever, They're Cool
Episode 7 • Mar 3, 2009
There Could Be a Tiger in There
Episode 8 • Mar 10, 2009
They Call Me the Rottweiler
Episode 9 • Aug 9, 2009
What Kind of Grades Did You Get in Recess?
Episode 10 • Aug 16, 2009
We're a Nation of Immigrants: All of Us
Episode 11 • Aug 23, 2009
There Goes Another Broken Heart Thanks to the CBP
Episode 12 • Aug 30, 2009
Were You Actually on 'The Bachelor'?
Episode 13 • Sep 6, 2009
Strip Clubs, Open on Thursday - Hmmm.

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50
While some of the "finds" the security officers uncover at border crossings tonight at the Los Angeles International Airport, at the Blaine, Wash./Canada border, at the US/Mexican border and while patrolling the desert outside Tucson, are interesting, most are not.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
50
There's little about Homeland Security USA that's warmly reassuring in the post-9/11 world. But the agents do behave with commendable civility (at least while cameras are trained on them) and apparent diligence.
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
50
As is so often the case, however, it's difficult to invest real-life police work with the sense of excitement that television doles out in scripted programming--even with music whose urgency borders on the comical.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
50
Creator/producer Shapiro and company do a commendable job establishing the formula early on. The problem is that the concept is by nature wholly repetitive.
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
40
Homeland Security USA is a powerful ego boost for insecure civil servants, but it doesn’t reveal much about the homeland’s actual security.
By Alessandra Stanley FULL REVIEW
40
Rolling the wars on terror, drugs, and illegal immigration into one rhetorical package, Homeland Security USA plays partly like a pumped-up recruiting film, partly like a public-affairs outreach video for hard-core video gamers.
By Troy Patterson FULL REVIEW

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