best season so far for me
best season so far for me
best season so far for me
best season so far for me
best season so far for me
best season so far for me
best season so far for me
best season so far for me
best season so far for me
best season so far for me
This is actually one of the very best tv shows and seasons I have ever watched. The cast is after four seasons still performing on a top level and every single episode is exciting and thrillig.
The first three hours of the new season that Showtime made available for review suggest Homeland is up for new challenges that move the show somewhat closer in tone to “24” while still maintaining a prestige sheen that it’s smarter, less formulaic and more believable than the Fox terrorism drama.
By episode 3, Homeland starts connecting. A murder mystery becomes intriguing, key franchise assets (including Mandy Patinkin's Saul) are plugged directly into the main narrative, and a new agent (Michael O'Keefe) provides a welcome spark.
It's good again. Not great, but good: smarter than you expect, more patient with its storytelling, less interested in the characters' plotting and counter-plotting than in their often miserable inner lives.
There is a flatness to the supporting characters--Saul's wife and Carrie's sister are now garden-variety Prestige Cable nags--and a measured predictability to the overall story that drains too much tension from even the sight of a wig-free Corey Stoll. Yet Mandy Patinkin and F. Murray Abraham are still fantastic, the show still employs top-notch directors and Homeland can still rustle up an atmosphere of tense isolation when it needs to. All in all, many of the tin-eared elements would more or less tolerable if I were still intrigued by Carrie Mathison.
This is the best season so far. They have learned from past mistakes and now focus fully on the nitty-gritty of real world CIA operations. No one comes off clean, and that's the way it should be. The way tension and plot twists are being handled is nothing short of masterpiece material. An absolute 10/10.
Really liked the series 1-3 until the writer lost the plot in season 4. Completely misrepresented Pakistan ranging from the policy, characters*, location, etc. It seems the writer's blinkered views came out with full force with prejudice against a country they never even bothered visiting, let alone portraying.
A balanced view of things backed up by factual information is the media's responsibility!
(Characters were all played by actors not near to Pakistan even with the skin tone, accent)
This season started on a high point , with a good story line and a solid script. .But nearing its end , it seems the writers just want to get over with it. The twists are obvious and unrealistic
It was pathetic to see season 4 depicting completely a wrong picture of Islamabad..Probably they shot season 4 in Capetown which is way different than Islamabad. Islamabad is beautiful planned city in the foothills of Himalayas. And here you see all the streets and markets like a normal backward city. It might be interesting season but making a negative opinion of the world about a beautiful city is unfair.
Homeland morphed into an atrocious tv show where there's nothing at stake, when something interesting happens and it's immediately solved and now the show revolves in only drama and not into that frenetic pace of the start of the show were you had, drama, action and actually consequences.
The show lost it's way and you shouldn't watch it, I know the last episode made me quit.