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- SHOWTIME
- Jan 15, 2017
- SHOWTIME
- Jan 15, 2017
- SHOWTIME
- Jan 15, 2017
- SHOWTIME
- Jan 15, 2017
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8 Seasons
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
68
67% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
33% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The first two episodes promise a contemplative sixth as opposed to a shock-and-awe one.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 125 User Ratings
6.6
61% Positive
76 Ratings
76 Ratings
18% Mixed
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22% Negative
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27 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 125 User Ratings
6.6
61% Positive
76 Ratings
76 Ratings
18% Mixed
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
22% Negative
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
After a very slow start with the first episodes, Homeland has realy picked up the excitement with a bang. Just a couple of episodes after the first three and it flipped this season totally arround, from beeing slow and booring to very exciting and can't get enough of it. To those who is about to throw in the towell due to the first episodes, hang in there it will get much better.
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SEASON 6
It’s a solid enough re-start to a series that Showtime already has renewed for two more seasons beyond this one.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As in season's past, the first few episodes lay the foundation for the season. The fatigue of war in the Middle East is examined. With a new administration, how do we handle war, spying, terrorism, while keeping the homeland safe and remaining a free society? This show remains relevant.
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SEASON 6
It's just more and more unbelievable that anyone, even people that have only been in contact with Carrie for just 2 hours, would trust her to accomplish anything what so ever. Throughout all previous seasons miss Mathison grew to increasingly be the obnoxious egocentric she always has been. She acts as if everywhere she happens to be, is her Baghdad station over and over. Bossing everybody around, evermore loudly and evermore unhinged from reality and inter-human contact. The reason I start with this is because sane thought dictates that one cannot believe she would have the slightest credibility to even ask someone to pass the milk. That makes the show a cringe fest every time Carrie opens her (loud)mouth. Add to this the still rising amount of plot holes -still as in 'even more than in season 5', and you should understand that the show has become truly hard to watch. The holes get ever so more inane as well. I kept watching as to be able to find out what would happen in the end to the other characters. Especially Saul and Dar. I'll watch the first episode of S7 for sure. To know whether it gets better and more credible. If not, it will end there. It's hard to say what annoys the most. The unlikeliness of Carrie as a person of relevance or the teeth clenching plot holes.
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SEASON 6
Very sad and disappointed by what this series has morphed into. Are they caving to certain interest groups? Do they feel the need to take on what they don't understand (but think they do) about the 2016 election? Most people don't have a problem with reflection on the murky work of counter terrorism, and finding a policy that is effective. But the notion that an Alex Jones like character is working with the CIA is truly preposterous. This was once a great show.
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SEASON 6
