An asset from Carrie's old life comes in from the cold.Download Video Homeland Resentment Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Homeland Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Who's the hero – who's the threat? When MIA Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody returns home to a hero's welcome after eight years in enemy confinement, brilliant but volatile CIA agent Carrie Mathison isn't buying his story. She believes that Brody has been turned and is now working for Al Qaeda. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse with nothing short of American national security at stake. Claire Danes, Damian Lewis and Mandy Patankin star in the provocative, suspenseful new Showtime Original Series HOMELAND, from Executive Producers of "24".The best new show of the fall debuts tonight — and I’m as surprised to be writing that as you are to be reading it, given that the show in question, “Homeland,” airs on Showtime (Sundays 10 p.m./9 Central), stars Claire Danes as a CIA analyst, is brought to you by a couple of the producers of “24,” and sounds as though it could have been pitched as “The Manchurian Candidate: The Series.”
But set that aside, if you can, and look at what’s on-screen, because it’ll reward your attention. Very loosely based on the Israeli TV series “Prisoners of War,” it’s about CIA agents tracking a former Marine (Damian Lewis of “Band of Brothers”) who might be a terrorist agent.
The show delivers the core elements you expect from a military/espionage thriller,violence, conspiracy plots and clever detective work. But this isn’t the new adventures of Jack Bauer or James Bond, or even a Tom Clancy-style geopolitical fantasy.
The characters of “Homeland” don’t fall into the genre’s four major categories: superheroes, supervillains, bureaucrats and cannon fodder. They’re psychologically plausible human beings.
But let’s return to that “Manchurian Candidate” comparison for a moment, because it’s useful. Richard Condon’s source novel and the two films that adapted it were built around a couple of compelling adversaries — the brainwashed assassin Raymond Shaw and his commanding officer, Bennett “Ben” Marco.
Although Marco was entrusted with defending the United States against the threat posed by Raymond and his foreign masters, the men had key characteristics in common, including post-traumatic stress disorder, recurring nightmares, a profound sense of alienation and an aura of tragic loss verging on victimhood. Ben was ultimately saved by love, while Raymond was destroyed by it.
Both were broken souls who would have had plenty to talk about had their missions — and their personalities — not been at odds. If you’ve seen either film version of “Candidate,” you remember the small moments in which the film’s plot is back-burnered long enough to ask what it might be like to have survived unspeakable violence in war, then returned to a peaceful and mostly clueless nation.
The best sequences in “Homeland” play as if its writers studied those moments and used them to calibrate the tone of the show.
The show also reminds us that counterterrorism and the American military are part of the same huge political and economic machine, that the machine has to be oiled with tax money, and that with the public exhausted by 10 years in Afghanistan and eight in Iraq, the propaganda value of a bona fide war hero like Brody is incalculable.
So Brody has to be a symbol even though he can barely keep it together as a man. He is physically and emotionally scarred by his imprisonment and torture. His kids are uncomfortable around him because they were very young when he left for war, Jessica (Morena Baccarin of “V”), is dysfunctional for all sorts of reasons, including Brody’s horrifying scars and his wife’s secret relationship with his best friend and commanding officer, Capt. Mike Faber (Diego Klattenhoff).
And now that he’s back home, he has become a different kind of prisoner — a hostage of the media, which surrounds his house and peeps in his windows.
All this would be enough to crush anyone’s spirit, but Brody has another, more horrible burden: Thanks to the brainwashing he endured, he’s not even in control of his own mind. He’s a puppet, and neither he nor his CIA monitors know who’s pulling the strings.
Okay, firstly, I gotta say, I watched the entire series believing that there would only be one season and the story would be finished by the finale episode. This is because I saw that IMDb listed the show's running period as (2011) only and not the usual (2011-), meaning its ongoing - when did they change that?
That was kinda stupid of me, I guess. Anyway, I see that the show's been renewed for a second season, which is great, because this show is very good. Just a heads up, though, that my false belief kinda affected my view of the show while I was watching it, especially the last episode where I was expecting everything to wrap up.
Like I said, this show is good, very good. Its basically what AMC's Rubicon should have been like. Its very much in the same vein, with the themes of paranoia, conspiracy theories and dealing with the whole intelligence business.