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- SHOWTIME
- Feb 9, 2020
- SHOWTIME
- Feb 9, 2020
- SHOWTIME
- Feb 9, 2020
- SHOWTIME
- Feb 9, 2020
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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20% Mixed
2 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
71
80% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
When she slips into operative mode with the ease of a worn-in suit have an extra level of tension to them: the world, dangerous as it is, is not what it was any more than she is the same woman she once was. ... She can also be cold and cruel and create stupendous debacles out of her bad decision-making. In that way, however, she's also the personification of what makes the series worth seeing to its end after nine long years, that the personal frames of mind from which a few people operate can end up determining whether million of people will live in peace or suffer under years of conflict.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 53 User Ratings
6.6
68% Positive
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
6% Mixed
3 Ratings
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26% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 53 User Ratings
6.6
68% Positive
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
6% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
26% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
Homeland is back! Powerful, relevant and consistently one of the best shows on TV. Claire Danes is a force of nature. A must see!!!
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SEASON 8
As the beginning of the end, Season 8 of Homeland naturally doesn't hit the highs that made it a flash cultural phenomenon for a couple of years. But these early episodes are comparable to most of the show's run as a strong espionage serial with a relevant political context and intimate character drama.
With "Homeland," the future is always a bit murky, but if these first steps are any indication, it's still struggling to live up to that past.
Homeland is about a lot of things, personal and geopolitical. But at its most powerful, the new season conjures that simple, sad feeling: My God, it’s been so long. All of this — the war, the fear, the vengeance. ... The first four episodes of the season have their wild plot lurches but also the gimlet eye for human nature of “Homeland” at its best. Danes gives us a Carrie who’s older and wiser but also wrenchingly aware of her own precariousness. And the show is conscious of the collateral damage of the great game.
It’s well built. But all its life comes from Danes. Mathison’s troubled mind has always been a metaphor for government intelligence: brilliant but unreliable, vital but dangerous. Danes’ performance animates not only the scenes but the ones she is not in, too, and every time she’s out of shot you crave her return.
Its return last night, I'm sad to say, felt like an irritating houseguest who has outstayed their welcome and is telling the same anecdotes, over and over again.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 8
Now that the final season showing has completed it can be said that it was a pretty good last run of episodes -> certainly one of the stronger in the series. Once the show got out of "Brody mode" it was able to feed into the pulse of current events and even though it had flaws, that's what made it watchable and interesting. From the migrant crisis to social media election manipulation and the alt-right it was able to hold up a mirror. The finale episode and its ending was a bit Hollywood but pretty decent in itself. Hasta la vista Homeland.
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SEASON 8
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SEASON 8
Ho Meh Land....Title needs an extra "h"....Very boring, lazy, clichéd, badly acted first episode. (Claire Danes is such an overrated actress)
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SEASON 8
