Chicago – The Guardians of the Galaxy have lost some of their freshness over the years. They’re no long the scrappy obscurities who came out of nowhere to deliver one of the more idiosyncratic and enjoyable adventures in the Marvel Cinema Universe. But while familiarity has taken some of the elements of surprise, they’re still an agreeable bunch to watch.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Bradley Cooper’s Rocket Raccoon takes center stage in the adventure, after a golden hued man child (Will Poulter) morally wounds the talking rodent. Star Lord Aka Peter Quinn (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Nebula (Karen Gillan), Mantis and the rest of the Guardians must find a way to save him. Turns out Rocket was experimented on by “The High Evolutionary,” (Chukwudi Iwuji), a sort of benign scientist who wanted to remove imperfections and make a utopia … he’s not pure evil, merely misunderstood. This...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Bradley Cooper’s Rocket Raccoon takes center stage in the adventure, after a golden hued man child (Will Poulter) morally wounds the talking rodent. Star Lord Aka Peter Quinn (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Nebula (Karen Gillan), Mantis and the rest of the Guardians must find a way to save him. Turns out Rocket was experimented on by “The High Evolutionary,” (Chukwudi Iwuji), a sort of benign scientist who wanted to remove imperfections and make a utopia … he’s not pure evil, merely misunderstood. This...
- 5/5/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Starring Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, and Morena Baccarin, "Homeland" follows the life of Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Lewis) after a near-decade-long stint in captivity. He immediately falls under the scrutiny of resourceful (and bipolar) CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Danes). She believes he's become a terrorist. So begins a cat-and-mouse thriller filled with numerous twists and shocking moments.
Throughout its eight seasons, "Homeland" took its viewers on a wild emotional ride. After winning several awards amidst its premiere season in 2011, the spy series stumbled to live up to its hype. Eventually, showrunners Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon (of "X-Files" and "24" fame) shifted "Homeland" into a brilliant new direction -- carrying the show to a satisfying finale.
So, which season is the best that "Homeland" has to offer? Pop in some jazz music, grab a big bottle of wine, and read on to see every season of "Homeland" ranked worst to best.
Throughout its eight seasons, "Homeland" took its viewers on a wild emotional ride. After winning several awards amidst its premiere season in 2011, the spy series stumbled to live up to its hype. Eventually, showrunners Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon (of "X-Files" and "24" fame) shifted "Homeland" into a brilliant new direction -- carrying the show to a satisfying finale.
So, which season is the best that "Homeland" has to offer? Pop in some jazz music, grab a big bottle of wine, and read on to see every season of "Homeland" ranked worst to best.
- 4/29/2023
- by Jeff Ames
- Slash Film
Disney+ confirmed its cast for new Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi and that includes Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse returning to Star Wars — they respectively played young Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Also . In addition, new cast members include Moses Ingram, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie.
It was rumored that Edgerton would reprise his role as Uncle Owen. In the Star Wars canon, a baby Luke Skywalker is left in the care of Owen and his wife Beru after Anakin Skywalker turns to the dark side and becomes Darth Vader. Deadline first told you that Game of Thrones actress Varma was joining the series.
Cameras rolls in April. The story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Kenobi, played by Ewan McGregor,...
It was rumored that Edgerton would reprise his role as Uncle Owen. In the Star Wars canon, a baby Luke Skywalker is left in the care of Owen and his wife Beru after Anakin Skywalker turns to the dark side and becomes Darth Vader. Deadline first told you that Game of Thrones actress Varma was joining the series.
Cameras rolls in April. The story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Kenobi, played by Ewan McGregor,...
- 3/29/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Main characters can be overrated. There, I said it.
The problem with main characters is that there’s so much pressure placed on them to be likable.
Sometimes the added pressure works in a character's favor, but other times, the extra attention turns what could have been an admirable lead into one that either falls flat or appears too overdeveloped.
That's rarely the case with sidekicks as they are quite literally created with the intention of propping up said main character
Now, that isn't to say the role of a sidekick is easy; their job is especially difficult as they bear a handful of responsibilities. They’re known as supporting and secondary characters that assist the main character, break the ice in tense situations using comedic relief, give advice, and clean up messes.
They also have the ability to raise the stakes of a show without outshining the lead.
Except...
The problem with main characters is that there’s so much pressure placed on them to be likable.
Sometimes the added pressure works in a character's favor, but other times, the extra attention turns what could have been an admirable lead into one that either falls flat or appears too overdeveloped.
That's rarely the case with sidekicks as they are quite literally created with the intention of propping up said main character
Now, that isn't to say the role of a sidekick is easy; their job is especially difficult as they bear a handful of responsibilities. They’re known as supporting and secondary characters that assist the main character, break the ice in tense situations using comedic relief, give advice, and clean up messes.
They also have the ability to raise the stakes of a show without outshining the lead.
Except...
- 8/17/2020
- by Lizzy Buczak
- TVfanatic
Back at the 2012 Emmys, “Homeland” started a two-season winning streak with eight awards — and then lost all 19 of its nominations in its next five. After a powerful eighth final season, the Showtime drama series is poised to finish strong. Back in the fray is two-time Best Actress winner Claire Danes, who has taken bipolar CIA spy Carrie Mathison through a tumultuous trajectory as she ricocheted around her mentor, intelligence operative Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin).
Making this complicated woman believable is not as easy as Danes makes it look. Mathison’s a superagent operating in a naturalistic world that is grounded in real reporting. Every year, during their “Homeland” hiatus, Danes and Patinkin joined executive producers Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon and director Lesli Linka Glatter for a weeklong Washington, D.C. spy camp. Over eight seasons, they developed relationships with intelligence experts, think-tank heads on the right and left, and...
Making this complicated woman believable is not as easy as Danes makes it look. Mathison’s a superagent operating in a naturalistic world that is grounded in real reporting. Every year, during their “Homeland” hiatus, Danes and Patinkin joined executive producers Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon and director Lesli Linka Glatter for a weeklong Washington, D.C. spy camp. Over eight seasons, they developed relationships with intelligence experts, think-tank heads on the right and left, and...
- 7/6/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Back at the 2012 Emmys, “Homeland” started a two-season winning streak with eight awards — and then lost all 19 of its nominations in its next five. After a powerful eighth final season, the Showtime drama series is poised to finish strong. Back in the fray is two-time Best Actress winner Claire Danes, who has taken bipolar CIA spy Carrie Mathison through a tumultuous trajectory as she ricocheted around her mentor, intelligence operative Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin).
Making this complicated woman believable is not as easy as Danes makes it look. Mathison’s a superagent operating in a naturalistic world that is grounded in real reporting. Every year, during their “Homeland” hiatus, Danes and Patinkin joined executive producers Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon and director Lesli Linka Glatter for a weeklong Washington, D.C. spy camp. Over eight seasons, they developed relationships with intelligence experts, think-tank heads on the right and left, and...
Making this complicated woman believable is not as easy as Danes makes it look. Mathison’s a superagent operating in a naturalistic world that is grounded in real reporting. Every year, during their “Homeland” hiatus, Danes and Patinkin joined executive producers Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon and director Lesli Linka Glatter for a weeklong Washington, D.C. spy camp. Over eight seasons, they developed relationships with intelligence experts, think-tank heads on the right and left, and...
- 7/6/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
This Homeland review contains major spoilers.
Homeland Season 8 Episode 12
It’s a telling choice that the seeming climax of Homeland, the definitive espionage story of the last decade, ends not with explosions or gunfire, but with the harmonies of a requiem mass. For that is the music Saul Berenson has playing when Carrie Mathison, the daughter he wishes he had, returns home. By this point in the Homeland series finale, what he must’ve suspected last week is inescapable: Yevgeny Gromav has asked a price so steep that Carrie chose not to share it… all the while she also chose not to visit her daughter while back in the States.
So the scene where all the fractures and faults in their relationship comes to bear while Mozart’s “Requiem” plays on. That piece is an ode to death, and one the composer began in 1791 but didn’t live to finish...
Homeland Season 8 Episode 12
It’s a telling choice that the seeming climax of Homeland, the definitive espionage story of the last decade, ends not with explosions or gunfire, but with the harmonies of a requiem mass. For that is the music Saul Berenson has playing when Carrie Mathison, the daughter he wishes he had, returns home. By this point in the Homeland series finale, what he must’ve suspected last week is inescapable: Yevgeny Gromav has asked a price so steep that Carrie chose not to share it… all the while she also chose not to visit her daughter while back in the States.
So the scene where all the fractures and faults in their relationship comes to bear while Mozart’s “Requiem” plays on. That piece is an ode to death, and one the composer began in 1791 but didn’t live to finish...
- 4/27/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
There’s a symmetry to the final season of “Homeland” that speaks louder than any of its international rabble-rousing and high-octane action scenes. Carrie Mathison, the CIA officer with bipolar disorder who Claire Danes has squinted, screamed, sweated, and shaken her way into becoming over seven intense seasons, is now a former P.O.W. suspected of turning on her country. To Carrie, such an accusation is as ludicrous as it is insulting. She’s a patriot. She’s put her life, sanity, and family on the line, time and time again, for America. To see it any other way is impossible.
And yet, over the course of the first four episodes, Carrie is forced to reexamine her perspective; to consider the unthinkable in order to, once again, protect her country — this time, possibly, from herself. Not only is this a clever means to put Carrie in the shoes of her one-time enemy,...
And yet, over the course of the first four episodes, Carrie is forced to reexamine her perspective; to consider the unthinkable in order to, once again, protect her country — this time, possibly, from herself. Not only is this a clever means to put Carrie in the shoes of her one-time enemy,...
- 2/4/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Updated Exclusive: Comedy writer and actor Jason Mantzoukas and Homeland‘s Rupert Friend have joined the cast of Paramount’s action thriller Infinite opposite Mark Wahlberg, Dylan O’Brien. Both of their roles are being kept under wraps.
The Antoine Fuqua directed film is an adaptation of the novel The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz. Pic follows a man who discovers that his hallucinations are actually visions from past lives. Ian Shoor adapted the script. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, John Zaozirny, Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and Mark Huffam are producing Infinite with Fuqua and Raphael Crohn executive producing.
Most recently, Mantzoukas was seen in the action film John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum and the comedy The Long Dumb Road, which premiered at The Sundance International Film Festival last year. His previous feature credits include The House, The Dictator, How To Be Single, Sleeping With Other People and Neighbors, among others.
The Antoine Fuqua directed film is an adaptation of the novel The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz. Pic follows a man who discovers that his hallucinations are actually visions from past lives. Ian Shoor adapted the script. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, John Zaozirny, Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and Mark Huffam are producing Infinite with Fuqua and Raphael Crohn executive producing.
Most recently, Mantzoukas was seen in the action film John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum and the comedy The Long Dumb Road, which premiered at The Sundance International Film Festival last year. His previous feature credits include The House, The Dictator, How To Be Single, Sleeping With Other People and Neighbors, among others.
- 9/13/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Emmy nominee Rupert Friend, best known for portraying Peter Quinn on Showtime’s Homeland, has joined Waldo, the Tim Kirkby-directed film based on the novel Last Looks by Howard Michael Gould.
Mel Gibson and Charlie Hunnam star in the pic, about a disgraced Lapd detective (Hunnam) who’s spent the past three years living off the grid. He’s reluctantly pulled back into his old life by a former lover in order to solve the murder of an eccentric celebrity’s wife.
Morena Baccarin, Lucy Fry, Dominic Monaghan, Eiza Gonzalez, Clancy Brown and Jacob Scipio co-star. Andrew Lazar, Brad Feinstein, Christina Weiss Lurie and Steven Shainberg are producing.
Friend can currently be seen as part of the main cast of the CBS All Access series Strange Angel, now in its second season. On the film side, he most recently co-starred in Paul Feig’s A Simple Favor opposite Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively,...
Mel Gibson and Charlie Hunnam star in the pic, about a disgraced Lapd detective (Hunnam) who’s spent the past three years living off the grid. He’s reluctantly pulled back into his old life by a former lover in order to solve the murder of an eccentric celebrity’s wife.
Morena Baccarin, Lucy Fry, Dominic Monaghan, Eiza Gonzalez, Clancy Brown and Jacob Scipio co-star. Andrew Lazar, Brad Feinstein, Christina Weiss Lurie and Steven Shainberg are producing.
Friend can currently be seen as part of the main cast of the CBS All Access series Strange Angel, now in its second season. On the film side, he most recently co-starred in Paul Feig’s A Simple Favor opposite Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively,...
- 8/22/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s virtually impossible to limit year-end lists to 10 or 20 shows, so it’s literally impossible to include all the great performances from 2017 on one list. But IndieWire has done our best, wading through the hundreds of award-worthy turns from veteran actors and TV newbies to find the best performances this year.
These actors accomplished something special: They elevated their shows even when it seemed like the series couldn’t go any higher. They found surprising depths within the writers’ words and surprised directors with keen insights into their characters. They made us laugh, cry, jump for joy, and scream in frustration. Their precision in understanding who they played helped evoke passion in the audience watching.
We will not soon forget, and if you haven’t yet seen some of these fine thespians go to work, make sure to make the time. There may be a lot of television out there,...
These actors accomplished something special: They elevated their shows even when it seemed like the series couldn’t go any higher. They found surprising depths within the writers’ words and surprised directors with keen insights into their characters. They made us laugh, cry, jump for joy, and scream in frustration. Their precision in understanding who they played helped evoke passion in the audience watching.
We will not soon forget, and if you haven’t yet seen some of these fine thespians go to work, make sure to make the time. There may be a lot of television out there,...
- 12/14/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen, Liz Shannon Miller, Ben Travers and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
MaryAnn’s quick take… Breezy, jokey, crammed with clever sci-fi ideas; the funniest McU flick yet. Director Taika Waititi brings a new geeky verve we didn’t realize the series needed. I’m “biast” (pro): love the cast, love the McU
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Thor can go to hell.
No, I mean, literally: Thor is capable of going to hell, just for a visit, which is where he is at the opening of Ragnarok. Okay, okay, I know, I know, it’s not really hell, not Hell. I know it’s Muspelheim, the extradimensional realm of fire, please don’t write in to complain. But it’s pretty hellish, and Thor is there to confront the fire demon Surtur, who is fairly satanic: extremely large and scary, aflame, and determined to slay the gods of Asgard and...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Thor can go to hell.
No, I mean, literally: Thor is capable of going to hell, just for a visit, which is where he is at the opening of Ragnarok. Okay, okay, I know, I know, it’s not really hell, not Hell. I know it’s Muspelheim, the extradimensional realm of fire, please don’t write in to complain. But it’s pretty hellish, and Thor is there to confront the fire demon Surtur, who is fairly satanic: extremely large and scary, aflame, and determined to slay the gods of Asgard and...
- 10/27/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
A “snub” implies a conscious dismissal; a knowing exclusion; a willful act of disdainful rebuffing. And in the era of “too much TV,” the idea of Emmy voters purposefully boxing out anyone other than Donald Trump is a bit nutty. Those who don’t make the cut aren’t “snubs” so much as they’re… leftovers.
But the 2017 nomination list sure was filled with surprises, good and bad. And while we’d like to refer to the surprising exclusions as leftovers, that’s just too darn confusing when so many of the excluded came from a show called “The Leftovers.” So we’re sticking with snubs. Just know that we know the TV Academy didn’t mean anything by it.
The Snubs
“The Americans”
After breaking into the major categories for the first time last year, FX’s critically acclaimed drama was kicked right back out of the Drama Series race.
But the 2017 nomination list sure was filled with surprises, good and bad. And while we’d like to refer to the surprising exclusions as leftovers, that’s just too darn confusing when so many of the excluded came from a show called “The Leftovers.” So we’re sticking with snubs. Just know that we know the TV Academy didn’t mean anything by it.
The Snubs
“The Americans”
After breaking into the major categories for the first time last year, FX’s critically acclaimed drama was kicked right back out of the Drama Series race.
- 7/13/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Will long-term viewers ever forgive writers for the one-two punch that was Quinn's fate on Homeland Season 5 and Homeland Season 6?
Can The Fosters ever have a good time, or will they spend every hour in misery until the show makes its exit?
Was Scandal's 100th Episode celebration just too weird?
Can you imagine a Girls series finale without Elijah?
Ponder all of these things and more as you read the quotes from the week ending April 14, 2017, below!
1. Homeland Keane: Is he, is he dead? Carrie: Yeah. Keane: He saved our lives. Carrie: Yeah. Keane: What was his name? Carrie: Peter Quinn. Keane:... 2. Underground Harriet: If you don't have it in you to take up arms against the injustice then you gotta pray another prayer and you gotta walk in it... 3. The Son Eli: Is this one of those vaudeville routines or are you working your way up to a question?...
Can The Fosters ever have a good time, or will they spend every hour in misery until the show makes its exit?
Was Scandal's 100th Episode celebration just too weird?
Can you imagine a Girls series finale without Elijah?
Ponder all of these things and more as you read the quotes from the week ending April 14, 2017, below!
1. Homeland Keane: Is he, is he dead? Carrie: Yeah. Keane: He saved our lives. Carrie: Yeah. Keane: What was his name? Carrie: Peter Quinn. Keane:... 2. Underground Harriet: If you don't have it in you to take up arms against the injustice then you gotta pray another prayer and you gotta walk in it... 3. The Son Eli: Is this one of those vaudeville routines or are you working your way up to a question?...
- 4/15/2017
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
2017-04-10T16:05:18-07:00'Homeland' Actor Discusses His Fate After Season FinaleIt may have happened one season later than originally planned, but Peter Quinn is officially out of the picture on Homeland. The character on the Showtime drama, played for the past five seasons by Rupert Friend, went out in a blaze of glory — gunned down by police while speeding Carrie (Claire Danes) and a besieged president-elect to safety. For Friend, it marks the end of a long gig that originally saw him start as a taciturn hitman guest star and ultimately assume leading man status as the show's moral center. His absence sets the stage for a much-changed version of Homeland when it next returns. But, for now, Friend hopped on the phone with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss his final season — including the conversations he had with showrunner Alex Gansa about getting killed...
- 4/10/2017
- by EG
- Yidio
Spoiler Alert: The story includes details about the Season 6 finale of Homeland. Homeland’s leading men tend to have pretty short expiration dates though they die as heroes. Damian Lewis’s Brody started off as a traitor before redeeming himself and dying for his country in the Season 3 finale. His mantle was carried by another British actor, Rupert Friend. His enigmatic assassin Peter Quinn started off as a recurring character in Season 2 originally brought in to kill…...
- 4/10/2017
- Deadline TV
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Homeland” Season 6, including the finale which aired Sunday night.]
Peter Quinn died as he lived: charging headfirst into a mess created by Carrie Mathison, saving her and killing himself in the process. As infuriating as it sounds at the onset, Quinn’s death in the Season 6 finale of “Homeland” fit because it mirrored his mentality so well. Quinn spent much of his time on “Homeland” ignoring his own well-being in order to protect Carrie’s, dating all the way back to when he refused to kill Brody because Quinn knew doing so would hurt her. That’s why driving kamikaze-style into a hail of gunfire, with Carrie crouching behind him, is as apt an ending as it is tragic, maddening, and final.
We wanted more for Quinn, but it always felt like too much to hope for, especially after his near-death in Season 5. While some may believe he should’ve been put out of his misery then, Season 6 clarified...
Peter Quinn died as he lived: charging headfirst into a mess created by Carrie Mathison, saving her and killing himself in the process. As infuriating as it sounds at the onset, Quinn’s death in the Season 6 finale of “Homeland” fit because it mirrored his mentality so well. Quinn spent much of his time on “Homeland” ignoring his own well-being in order to protect Carrie’s, dating all the way back to when he refused to kill Brody because Quinn knew doing so would hurt her. That’s why driving kamikaze-style into a hail of gunfire, with Carrie crouching behind him, is as apt an ending as it is tragic, maddening, and final.
We wanted more for Quinn, but it always felt like too much to hope for, especially after his near-death in Season 5. While some may believe he should’ve been put out of his misery then, Season 6 clarified...
- 4/10/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
The following story contains massive spoilers from Sunday’s Homeland finale, proceed at your own peril. And we repeat: Stop reading if you have yet to watch the episode.
Peter Quinn used the last of his nine lives in Sunday’s Homeland Season 6 finale, when the ex-sniper took a bullet (or more like 92) for President-Elect Keane and died instantly for his trouble. His impulsive decision to sacrifice his own life for Keane — and Carrie — marks a heroic end to the character’s death-defying five-year journey.
RelatedHomeland Officially Renewed for Season 7 and Season 8 at Showtime
Below, portrayer Rupert Friend talks...
Peter Quinn used the last of his nine lives in Sunday’s Homeland Season 6 finale, when the ex-sniper took a bullet (or more like 92) for President-Elect Keane and died instantly for his trouble. His impulsive decision to sacrifice his own life for Keane — and Carrie — marks a heroic end to the character’s death-defying five-year journey.
RelatedHomeland Officially Renewed for Season 7 and Season 8 at Showtime
Below, portrayer Rupert Friend talks...
- 4/10/2017
- TVLine.com
The season 6 finale of Homeland killed off one of the show’s beloved characters – Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend). Homeland Season 6 Finale Recap The show teased his death multiple times throughout the series, but finally offed him in the end. Quinn was driving Carrie (Claire Danes) and president-elect Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) when an assassination attempt […]
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- 4/10/2017
- by Hillary Luehring-Jones
- Uinterview
This article originally appeared on EW.com.
Maybe Carrie should have stayed abroad after all. Maybe if she had, she wouldn’t be ending Homeland‘s sixth season staring warily at Capitol Hill the way Brody once did, unsure of whether her country’s turned its back on her.
So that’s what this season was all about, the fact that terrorism can be home grown — and not seen as terrorism, but a defensive mechanism to keep America, as the episode title says, first. Keane’s paranoia is what compels her to stay seated while Carrie pleads for her to...
Maybe Carrie should have stayed abroad after all. Maybe if she had, she wouldn’t be ending Homeland‘s sixth season staring warily at Capitol Hill the way Brody once did, unsure of whether her country’s turned its back on her.
So that’s what this season was all about, the fact that terrorism can be home grown — and not seen as terrorism, but a defensive mechanism to keep America, as the episode title says, first. Keane’s paranoia is what compels her to stay seated while Carrie pleads for her to...
- 4/10/2017
- by Shirley Li
- PEOPLE.com
So that happened.
Homeland Season 6 Episode 12 just upended a season that had felt tight in its plot and coherent in its character development for...shock value? I don't even know.
So, let's see. Peter Quinn is dead for real this time. That was pretty much my takeaway.
Are we supposed to be grateful that at least they didn't leave his death ambiguous like Homeland Season 5?
Are we supposed to be impressed that Homeland was "brave" enough to bring back a beloved character from the dead; have him suffer relentlessly for one more season; and then kill him off mid-finale without any fanfare?
Is this what makes a television show prestigious?
Because I have a feeling that a lot of Peter Quinn fans – like me – are feeling baited. We felt betrayed at the end of last season when our beloved character survived torture after torture only to have his life left in the balance.
Homeland Season 6 Episode 12 just upended a season that had felt tight in its plot and coherent in its character development for...shock value? I don't even know.
So, let's see. Peter Quinn is dead for real this time. That was pretty much my takeaway.
Are we supposed to be grateful that at least they didn't leave his death ambiguous like Homeland Season 5?
Are we supposed to be impressed that Homeland was "brave" enough to bring back a beloved character from the dead; have him suffer relentlessly for one more season; and then kill him off mid-finale without any fanfare?
Is this what makes a television show prestigious?
Because I have a feeling that a lot of Peter Quinn fans – like me – are feeling baited. We felt betrayed at the end of last season when our beloved character survived torture after torture only to have his life left in the balance.
- 4/10/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
David Crow Apr 17, 2017
The Homeland Season 6 finale has explosive developments that surprise and, more importantly, genuinely satisfy...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.12 America First
Carrie stands there, alone on an already very bleak and chilly winter day. Across the National Mall stands Capitol Hill, a building constructed to evoke both Classical and Enlightenment era ideals of democracy, fairness, and open governance. Perhaps it’s the greyness of the dawn, or the fact that it feels like those principles have become meaningless bumper sticker platitudes in an infinitely more complex national situation, but either way the sensation conveyed is one of abject loss.
It’s a provocative image to end Homeland season six on.
The Homeland Season 6 finale has explosive developments that surprise and, more importantly, genuinely satisfy...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Adapting His Dark Materials: where the BBC can succeed The Golden Compass: what went wrong? The Golden Compass sinks, I Am Legend & Alvin soar The Golden Compass: box office kills trilogy hopes? The Fades: celebrating BBC Three originals
6.12 America First
Carrie stands there, alone on an already very bleak and chilly winter day. Across the National Mall stands Capitol Hill, a building constructed to evoke both Classical and Enlightenment era ideals of democracy, fairness, and open governance. Perhaps it’s the greyness of the dawn, or the fact that it feels like those principles have become meaningless bumper sticker platitudes in an infinitely more complex national situation, but either way the sensation conveyed is one of abject loss.
It’s a provocative image to end Homeland season six on.
- 4/10/2017
- Den of Geek
Well we're not surprised, but we aren't happy either. After almost doing it and threatening to do it and doing it and then going back on having done it more times than we can count, Homeland just killed off Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend). Quinn died while driving Carrie (Claire Danes) and President-elect Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) through a whole bunch of bullets. He was hit multiple times, but still managed to get his passengers to safety before he died in the front seat, knowing that if he didn't, he had been set up to take the fall for Keane's assassination anyway. It turned out that he sacrificed himself to protect a woman who may not be the president everybody...
- 4/10/2017
- E! Online
[Editor’s note: The following review contains spoilers for the “Homeland” Season 6 finale, Episode 12, “America First.”]
“Homeland” painted a frightening picture of America throughout Season 6, slowly drawing back the curtain on a massive government conspiracy that resulted in a New York City bombing and an attack on the President-Elect’s life. Thrilling enough in its storytelling, especially during the tense first 20 minutes of the finale, Season 6 was made harrowing by the timely nature of its issues to our current political culture. The latest iteration of the Showtime drama argued we, the people, are not only right to be suspicious of our government, but that its current state is dangerous on a national and personal level for everyone connected to it.
“You remember what Graham Greene said, don’t you?” Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) told Saul (Mandy Patinkin) after he’d been arrested for his part in the conspiracy to discredit President-Elect Keane (Elizabeth Marvel). “The secret services are the only real measure of a nation’s political health.
“Homeland” painted a frightening picture of America throughout Season 6, slowly drawing back the curtain on a massive government conspiracy that resulted in a New York City bombing and an attack on the President-Elect’s life. Thrilling enough in its storytelling, especially during the tense first 20 minutes of the finale, Season 6 was made harrowing by the timely nature of its issues to our current political culture. The latest iteration of the Showtime drama argued we, the people, are not only right to be suspicious of our government, but that its current state is dangerous on a national and personal level for everyone connected to it.
“You remember what Graham Greene said, don’t you?” Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) told Saul (Mandy Patinkin) after he’d been arrested for his part in the conspiracy to discredit President-Elect Keane (Elizabeth Marvel). “The secret services are the only real measure of a nation’s political health.
- 4/10/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
David Crow Apr 10, 2017
A major confrontation between unlikely participants adds tension to the penultimate episode of Homeland Season 6...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.11 R Is For Romeo
Homeland season six is in its final movements. The season finale is only a week away, and the penultimate hour didn’t want you to forget that as it ended its fifty-minute drama on a thundering cliffhanger filled with explosives, vital missed phone conversations, and every implication that a full-throated military coup is in motion with CIA badmen headed to “protect” the president-elect at gunpoint.
And ironically, the most exciting thing about the episode is not in the pyrotechnics of a somewhat arbitrary cliffhanger; it’s in the tension of a president (or president-elect) sitting down with rightwing talk radio/fake news, legitimising...
A major confrontation between unlikely participants adds tension to the penultimate episode of Homeland Season 6...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Quiz: Can you recognise these movie cats? Men In Black: David Schwimmer on turning down the lead role
6.11 R Is For Romeo
Homeland season six is in its final movements. The season finale is only a week away, and the penultimate hour didn’t want you to forget that as it ended its fifty-minute drama on a thundering cliffhanger filled with explosives, vital missed phone conversations, and every implication that a full-throated military coup is in motion with CIA badmen headed to “protect” the president-elect at gunpoint.
And ironically, the most exciting thing about the episode is not in the pyrotechnics of a somewhat arbitrary cliffhanger; it’s in the tension of a president (or president-elect) sitting down with rightwing talk radio/fake news, legitimising...
- 4/3/2017
- Den of Geek
David Crow Apr 3, 2017
Carrie's gameplan takes an unexpected shift in a Homeland episode that continues to keep us on uneven footing...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.10 The Flag House
There was a moment midway through the latest episode of Homeland where the president-elect, the soon-to-be most powerful person on the planet, paid an unannounced visit to Carrie Mathison’s brownstone. With all the subtlety of “Hail to the Chief,” Elizabeth Keane acts like a concerned, mentoring figure to Carrie while having her secret service agents turn the screws of pressure simply by turning an about-face towards the door. “Privacy” means the bodyguards pretend they’re studying the interior decoration and glasswork of a door, and friendly concern means “why can’t you throw your former bosses under the bus, again?”
It...
Carrie's gameplan takes an unexpected shift in a Homeland episode that continues to keep us on uneven footing...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.10 The Flag House
There was a moment midway through the latest episode of Homeland where the president-elect, the soon-to-be most powerful person on the planet, paid an unannounced visit to Carrie Mathison’s brownstone. With all the subtlety of “Hail to the Chief,” Elizabeth Keane acts like a concerned, mentoring figure to Carrie while having her secret service agents turn the screws of pressure simply by turning an about-face towards the door. “Privacy” means the bodyguards pretend they’re studying the interior decoration and glasswork of a door, and friendly concern means “why can’t you throw your former bosses under the bus, again?”
It...
- 3/27/2017
- Den of Geek
As the season rounds the corner into its final act, Homeland Season 6 Episode 10 brings the three main characters to a turning point in their respective arcs.
For Carrie, Quinn, and Saul, Homeland Season 6 has been about what it means to be a hero.
While Carrie asks herself, “Can I be a hero and a good mother?”, the question facing Quinn has been, "Can I be a hero and a 'mutant'?"
For Saul, nearing the end of his career, the question is, “Can I be a hero even if my reputation and legacy are destroyed?”
The answer in all three cases is, of course, "Yes, you can." Being a hero, after all, is not a choice. It is who you are.
A Hero’s Gotta Hero
Carrie was riding high when she told Max – who was trying to get her to listen to his account of the propaganda mill he uncovered...
For Carrie, Quinn, and Saul, Homeland Season 6 has been about what it means to be a hero.
While Carrie asks herself, “Can I be a hero and a good mother?”, the question facing Quinn has been, "Can I be a hero and a 'mutant'?"
For Saul, nearing the end of his career, the question is, “Can I be a hero even if my reputation and legacy are destroyed?”
The answer in all three cases is, of course, "Yes, you can." Being a hero, after all, is not a choice. It is who you are.
A Hero’s Gotta Hero
Carrie was riding high when she told Max – who was trying to get her to listen to his account of the propaganda mill he uncovered...
- 3/27/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
David Crow Mar 27, 2017
Homeland provides another satisfying and head-turning twist, continuing to prove Season 6 is something different...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.9 Sock Puppets
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to take a minute and consider how much of a rebound Homeland has been on this year. It’s fair to say that season five was not exactly anyone’s favourite, and even the better post-Brody stories like season four were never quite able to recapture the pace and excitement of Homeland’s early, dizzying heights. I’m not entirely sure season six has either, but this episode again marks sure footing...
Homeland provides another satisfying and head-turning twist, continuing to prove Season 6 is something different...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.9 Sock Puppets
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to take a minute and consider how much of a rebound Homeland has been on this year. It’s fair to say that season five was not exactly anyone’s favourite, and even the better post-Brody stories like season four were never quite able to recapture the pace and excitement of Homeland’s early, dizzying heights. I’m not entirely sure season six has either, but this episode again marks sure footing...
- 3/20/2017
- Den of Geek
Things seem to be looking up for Carrie in Homeland Season 6 Episode 9, which can only mean one thing, she's in for a rough ride in the three remaining episodes of the season.
With intrigue and action, "Sock Puppets" brought the characters into emotional confrontations as they tried to sort out who to trust and where their own loyalties ultimately lie.
Of Quinn and Franny
During a court-mandated therapy session, Carrie finally came clean on why she’s been taking care of Quinn come hell or high water.
Strangely enough, she got there via a little trip down memory lane regarding her lingering guilt over the death of Nicholas Brody.
“I was willing to let you die,” Carrie said to a hallucination of Brody back in Homeland Season 4, Episode 7.
But with Peter Quinn, she’s not so willing.
[Quinn] nearly died last year in Berlin and I managed to save him. But…...
With intrigue and action, "Sock Puppets" brought the characters into emotional confrontations as they tried to sort out who to trust and where their own loyalties ultimately lie.
Of Quinn and Franny
During a court-mandated therapy session, Carrie finally came clean on why she’s been taking care of Quinn come hell or high water.
Strangely enough, she got there via a little trip down memory lane regarding her lingering guilt over the death of Nicholas Brody.
“I was willing to let you die,” Carrie said to a hallucination of Brody back in Homeland Season 4, Episode 7.
But with Peter Quinn, she’s not so willing.
[Quinn] nearly died last year in Berlin and I managed to save him. But…...
- 3/20/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
David Crow Mar 20, 2017
Carrie and Saul are sharing screentime in tonight's Homeland. So of course it's good. Especially when it makes unexpected turns...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.8 Alt. Truth
Following last week’s episode where Dar Adal had Child Protection Services take away Carrie's daughter—all to prove… he could?—I was worried that season six might become lost in the woods. Luckily, it found its path again in Alt.Truth, a strong, timely, and immensely enjoyable hour of paranoia. That long dormant feeling of utter confusion and despair that we haven’t regularly enjoyed since Nick Brody was a character is slowly reemerging in season six, and the darker things get,...
Carrie and Saul are sharing screentime in tonight's Homeland. So of course it's good. Especially when it makes unexpected turns...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.8 Alt. Truth
Following last week’s episode where Dar Adal had Child Protection Services take away Carrie's daughter—all to prove… he could?—I was worried that season six might become lost in the woods. Luckily, it found its path again in Alt.Truth, a strong, timely, and immensely enjoyable hour of paranoia. That long dormant feeling of utter confusion and despair that we haven’t regularly enjoyed since Nick Brody was a character is slowly reemerging in season six, and the darker things get,...
- 3/13/2017
- Den of Geek
Dealing with the emotional fallout of Franny's removal, Homeland Season 6 Episode 8 plunged Carrie into deep depression. Her despair began to dissipate when Saul gave her a purpose – helping him bring Dar down.
Peter Quinn followed the opposite trajectory. He began with a purpose – investigating what Dar's true intentions were in cloistering him in the boondocks – and ended up defeated. Almost.
More Mangst for Quinn
Ugh, did they just pull the old “disposable woman” trope on Astrid?
In my review of Homeland Season 6 Episode 7, I noted Astrid’s appearance felt random. I naively hoped her return would serve a worthy purpose. Well it sure looks like they brought her back just to die for the sake of Quinn’s arc. Not cool.
I’ll bet you five dollars Quinn’s gonna go into full-blown action mode to avenge Astrid’s death…predictable much?
And they couldn’t just let her die in dignity – a cool,...
Peter Quinn followed the opposite trajectory. He began with a purpose – investigating what Dar's true intentions were in cloistering him in the boondocks – and ended up defeated. Almost.
More Mangst for Quinn
Ugh, did they just pull the old “disposable woman” trope on Astrid?
In my review of Homeland Season 6 Episode 7, I noted Astrid’s appearance felt random. I naively hoped her return would serve a worthy purpose. Well it sure looks like they brought her back just to die for the sake of Quinn’s arc. Not cool.
I’ll bet you five dollars Quinn’s gonna go into full-blown action mode to avenge Astrid’s death…predictable much?
And they couldn’t just let her die in dignity – a cool,...
- 3/13/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Homeland recap here.
Quinn’s paranoid delusions land him in hot water this week on Homeland. (Actually, that water looks quite cold.)
At first, he’s humbled, apologizing to Astrid for going Awol last week. But as soon as she heads out for a jog, he starts snooping around the cabin. In a drawer, he finds an envelope containing all of his pills, a wad of cash and a fake passport and IDs ready for him with the name “David Ekley.” Then he searches her car, finding a gun under the seat.
Quinn’s paranoid delusions land him in hot water this week on Homeland. (Actually, that water looks quite cold.)
At first, he’s humbled, apologizing to Astrid for going Awol last week. But as soon as she heads out for a jog, he starts snooping around the cabin. In a drawer, he finds an envelope containing all of his pills, a wad of cash and a fake passport and IDs ready for him with the name “David Ekley.” Then he searches her car, finding a gun under the seat.
- 3/13/2017
- TVLine.com
David Crow Mar 13, 2017
Homeland season 6 has its first misstep when a poor story choice takes things on a messy detour...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.7 Imminent Risk
Two steps forward and one step back. Isn’t it always the way?
The last three episodes of Homeland have enjoyed an immense urgency as the hidden noose around Carrie's neck tightened. President-elect Keane also seems to be on borrowed time before Dar Adal kicks the chair out from under her, but at least she has made a vibrant protest and may even thwart his plans by refusing to allow herself to be trapped inside a gilded cage. And the plot developments on the Keane side, as well as what is happening with Adal, Saul, and everyone else, certainly moved the needle in troubling directions.
But I have to be honest, the soapy plot development...
Homeland season 6 has its first misstep when a poor story choice takes things on a messy detour...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Power Rangers, boob armour, and impractical costumes
6.7 Imminent Risk
Two steps forward and one step back. Isn’t it always the way?
The last three episodes of Homeland have enjoyed an immense urgency as the hidden noose around Carrie's neck tightened. President-elect Keane also seems to be on borrowed time before Dar Adal kicks the chair out from under her, but at least she has made a vibrant protest and may even thwart his plans by refusing to allow herself to be trapped inside a gilded cage. And the plot developments on the Keane side, as well as what is happening with Adal, Saul, and everyone else, certainly moved the needle in troubling directions.
But I have to be honest, the soapy plot development...
- 3/6/2017
- Den of Geek
Mid season, Homeland can be pretty dark, I get that. But Homeland Season 6 Episode 7 went a teeny bit overboard.
I like drama as much as the next guy, but when you start throwing in gratuitously cringe-worthy details about characters' back-stories, that's when I start to roll my eyes.
Still, it's been a strong season, and this episode was no exception, so I'll try to overlook some of its warts, for now.
Kick ‘Em While They’re Down
Holy crap, could things get any more depressing for Carrie and Quinn?
Last week on Homeland Season 6 Episode 6, when Carrie lost her allies, I speculated that she had reached her low-point for the season.
Well, clearly she hadn’t.
This week – in an agonizing series of scenes, each one bleaker than the one before – Carrie lost custody of her child.
Judge: Can you explain what you were doing in your daughter’s room,...
I like drama as much as the next guy, but when you start throwing in gratuitously cringe-worthy details about characters' back-stories, that's when I start to roll my eyes.
Still, it's been a strong season, and this episode was no exception, so I'll try to overlook some of its warts, for now.
Kick ‘Em While They’re Down
Holy crap, could things get any more depressing for Carrie and Quinn?
Last week on Homeland Season 6 Episode 6, when Carrie lost her allies, I speculated that she had reached her low-point for the season.
Well, clearly she hadn’t.
This week – in an agonizing series of scenes, each one bleaker than the one before – Carrie lost custody of her child.
Judge: Can you explain what you were doing in your daughter’s room,...
- 3/6/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
What happens when a spy thriller turns conspiracy-slash-mystery thriller?
You get a veteran show – one that critics have been trying to write off for years – producing some of its best episodes ever. Yes, ever.
Homeland Season 6 Episode 6 offered some Hitchcock-worthy scenes, as Carrie played cat-and-mouse with the mysterious watcher Quinn’s been ranting about all season.
Hats off to director Alex Graves for heightening the suspense through labyrinthine camera shots – as when Carrie is running through Conlin’s maze-like home trying to escape his killer – and to composer Sean Callery for the accompanying eerie score.
All Roads Lead to… No Freaking Clue
Last week in my review of Homeland Season 6 Episode 5 I drew up a list of possible suspects in the unfolding whodunit.
This week’s episode gave us some new ones to throw in the mix.
Of course, no conspiracy is the work of a single entity. Homeland Season...
You get a veteran show – one that critics have been trying to write off for years – producing some of its best episodes ever. Yes, ever.
Homeland Season 6 Episode 6 offered some Hitchcock-worthy scenes, as Carrie played cat-and-mouse with the mysterious watcher Quinn’s been ranting about all season.
Hats off to director Alex Graves for heightening the suspense through labyrinthine camera shots – as when Carrie is running through Conlin’s maze-like home trying to escape his killer – and to composer Sean Callery for the accompanying eerie score.
All Roads Lead to… No Freaking Clue
Last week in my review of Homeland Season 6 Episode 5 I drew up a list of possible suspects in the unfolding whodunit.
This week’s episode gave us some new ones to throw in the mix.
Of course, no conspiracy is the work of a single entity. Homeland Season...
- 2/27/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
David Crow Mar 6, 2017
Homeland has rebounded from its previously mediocre seasons and found its feet again...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.6 The Return
During the past five episodes of Homeland, I’ve been enjoying both the series’ premature expectation of Hillary Clinton being the 45th President of the United States, as well as its likely unexpected prescience in predicting a new Potus at war with her intelligence communities. However, as the smoke clears from the fictional terrorist attack in last week’s Homeland, we are clearly entering a true alternative realm of events far removed from real-life Us politics.
This is actually a huge asset to Homeland, because for the first time since Brody died in season 3, I feel like the producers have a...
Homeland has rebounded from its previously mediocre seasons and found its feet again...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.6 The Return
During the past five episodes of Homeland, I’ve been enjoying both the series’ premature expectation of Hillary Clinton being the 45th President of the United States, as well as its likely unexpected prescience in predicting a new Potus at war with her intelligence communities. However, as the smoke clears from the fictional terrorist attack in last week’s Homeland, we are clearly entering a true alternative realm of events far removed from real-life Us politics.
This is actually a huge asset to Homeland, because for the first time since Brody died in season 3, I feel like the producers have a...
- 2/27/2017
- Den of Geek
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Homeland recap here.
Homeland‘s Peter Quinn may be a certified whack job, but he does seem to have stumbled upon a massive conspiracy — and this week, someone gets caught in the crossfire.
Carrie waits at the police station to see Quinn, after last week’s unpleasantness. But a cop tells her he’s been shipped off to Bellevue, and he’s on lockdown for the next 72 hours, so she can’t see him. But she does show Quinn’s photos of the Black-Hatted Guy and the Medina Medley vans to Conlin.
Homeland‘s Peter Quinn may be a certified whack job, but he does seem to have stumbled upon a massive conspiracy — and this week, someone gets caught in the crossfire.
Carrie waits at the police station to see Quinn, after last week’s unpleasantness. But a cop tells her he’s been shipped off to Bellevue, and he’s on lockdown for the next 72 hours, so she can’t see him. But she does show Quinn’s photos of the Black-Hatted Guy and the Medina Medley vans to Conlin.
- 2/27/2017
- TVLine.com
Before I get into the meat of today’s column…
Do you watch comedian and political satirist Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, Friday, 10 Pm Et)? What I especially love about Mr. Maher’s show is that he invites people on who are from all shades of the political spectrum and that he’s unafraid of calling out bullshit when he sees it, whether it’s coming from the left, the right, or anywhere in the middle. Yes, he can be crass, profane, and occasionally downright rude, but he’s not sitting on the sidelines.
One of Friday night’s guests was Milo Yiannopoulos, a public speaker and a senior editor for Breitbart News, the alt-right news site that brought us such lovely individuals as Steve Bannon. This was my first experience with this guy, and it was incredibly unpleasant and I cannot be-lieve that anyone takes this very sad,...
Do you watch comedian and political satirist Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, Friday, 10 Pm Et)? What I especially love about Mr. Maher’s show is that he invites people on who are from all shades of the political spectrum and that he’s unafraid of calling out bullshit when he sees it, whether it’s coming from the left, the right, or anywhere in the middle. Yes, he can be crass, profane, and occasionally downright rude, but he’s not sitting on the sidelines.
One of Friday night’s guests was Milo Yiannopoulos, a public speaker and a senior editor for Breitbart News, the alt-right news site that brought us such lovely individuals as Steve Bannon. This was my first experience with this guy, and it was incredibly unpleasant and I cannot be-lieve that anyone takes this very sad,...
- 2/20/2017
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
At its best, Homeland delivers scintillating action sequences with a powerful emotional punch.
This is exactly what Homeland Season 6 Episode 5 accomplished and why, six seasons in, Homeland can still surprise us and make us agonize over the fate of our beloved characters in equal measure.
Carrie's world comes crashing down when Quinn – the only person she can truly trust – is taken into police custody just as she discovers she's the object of a dark conspiracy. It's Carrie against the world once again.
When Peter Quinn Babysits
So is Peter Quinn the best or the worst babysitter ever? The jury is still out, but he may want to leave “excels at hurling journalists down stairs, shooting guns out of windows, and incapacitating police officers in presence of young children” off his resume.
Other than that, he should be golden!
Luckily, young Franny is ballsy as heck, like her mama, and will stare down a crazy-eyed,...
This is exactly what Homeland Season 6 Episode 5 accomplished and why, six seasons in, Homeland can still surprise us and make us agonize over the fate of our beloved characters in equal measure.
Carrie's world comes crashing down when Quinn – the only person she can truly trust – is taken into police custody just as she discovers she's the object of a dark conspiracy. It's Carrie against the world once again.
When Peter Quinn Babysits
So is Peter Quinn the best or the worst babysitter ever? The jury is still out, but he may want to leave “excels at hurling journalists down stairs, shooting guns out of windows, and incapacitating police officers in presence of young children” off his resume.
Other than that, he should be golden!
Luckily, young Franny is ballsy as heck, like her mama, and will stare down a crazy-eyed,...
- 2/20/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
David Crow Feb 27, 2017
As the world falls apart, Homeland Season 6 comes together for a compelling hour of television with tragic turns...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.5 Casus Belli
Well that escalated quickly, didn’t it? Last week, the world of Homeland crumbled before a vision of terror that’s haunted the dreams of Americans for going on 20 years. In that amount of time since Sept. 11, 2001, the anxiety of another devastating terrorist attack occurring in the heart of American society has faded more to the recess of American life, but Homeland makes a convincing argument for what would happen if we awakened one morning to the sight of smoke plumes once more drifting across the Manhattan skyline.
… and it would not be good.
Thus Homeland delivers a high stakes episode that completely upends everything from the past four episodes, if not even the past several seasons.
As the world falls apart, Homeland Season 6 comes together for a compelling hour of television with tragic turns...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Sherlock: Steven Moffat on the show's future
6.5 Casus Belli
Well that escalated quickly, didn’t it? Last week, the world of Homeland crumbled before a vision of terror that’s haunted the dreams of Americans for going on 20 years. In that amount of time since Sept. 11, 2001, the anxiety of another devastating terrorist attack occurring in the heart of American society has faded more to the recess of American life, but Homeland makes a convincing argument for what would happen if we awakened one morning to the sight of smoke plumes once more drifting across the Manhattan skyline.
… and it would not be good.
Thus Homeland delivers a high stakes episode that completely upends everything from the past four episodes, if not even the past several seasons.
- 2/20/2017
- Den of Geek
Peter Quinn's been through the wringer, but nothing can keep this badass spy down!
Take a trip down Homeland's memory lane to revisit some of our favorite, heartthrob assassin's coolest moments.
1. Bad Cop or Just Batsh*t Crazy? We knew we were going to like this new guy Quinn when he drove a knife through a blubbering Brody's hand. Finally, a match for Carrie in the crazy department. And a looker, too! 2. A Guy Who Kills Bad Guys He may be an assassin, but he's no tool. Peter Quinn is not above defying orders (and threatening the boss) if he doesn't believe in the mission, especially where protecting Carrie is concerned. Is our favorite killer developing a killer crush? Aw. 3. World's Sexiest Bomb Maker Quinn loves making bombs. If the weather is hot enough, he prefers working shirtless. Bless. 4. Hot Biker Spy Hello?! Quinn on a motorcycle? It doesn't get any better than this.
Take a trip down Homeland's memory lane to revisit some of our favorite, heartthrob assassin's coolest moments.
1. Bad Cop or Just Batsh*t Crazy? We knew we were going to like this new guy Quinn when he drove a knife through a blubbering Brody's hand. Finally, a match for Carrie in the crazy department. And a looker, too! 2. A Guy Who Kills Bad Guys He may be an assassin, but he's no tool. Peter Quinn is not above defying orders (and threatening the boss) if he doesn't believe in the mission, especially where protecting Carrie is concerned. Is our favorite killer developing a killer crush? Aw. 3. World's Sexiest Bomb Maker Quinn loves making bombs. If the weather is hot enough, he prefers working shirtless. Bless. 4. Hot Biker Spy Hello?! Quinn on a motorcycle? It doesn't get any better than this.
- 2/14/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
In three pivotal scenes – with Dar, Sekou, and Keane – we get a sense of the questions Carrie has been wrestling with internally as she decides how best to direct her talents in service to her country.
Homeland Season 6 Episode 4 is a long-overdue exploration of Carrie’s professional motivations as they stand now.
When, in exchange for dirt on Dar Adal, Keane offers Carrie the chance to lead the wholesale reform of the CIA, Carrie is once again at a crossroads. Her decision will inform her trajectory for the rest of the season and, likely, the series.
Carrie and Dar face off
It’s clear to anyone who’s paying attention that Carrie is itching like nobody’s business to go back to the CIA.
She was beaming with pride at the wily spy methods she used to secure Sekou’s freedom and she’s positioning herself for a pretty darn...
Homeland Season 6 Episode 4 is a long-overdue exploration of Carrie’s professional motivations as they stand now.
When, in exchange for dirt on Dar Adal, Keane offers Carrie the chance to lead the wholesale reform of the CIA, Carrie is once again at a crossroads. Her decision will inform her trajectory for the rest of the season and, likely, the series.
Carrie and Dar face off
It’s clear to anyone who’s paying attention that Carrie is itching like nobody’s business to go back to the CIA.
She was beaming with pride at the wily spy methods she used to secure Sekou’s freedom and she’s positioning herself for a pretty darn...
- 2/13/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
After a slow start to the season – focused on the emotional fallout of Carrie's misadventures in Berlin -- Homeland Season 6 Episode 3 picks up the pace on the espionage and action. Carrie, Saul, and even Quinn get their spy-groove back, while Dar continues to position himself with the president-elect.
Quinn's back! (Maybe)
Howdy Quinn lovers (Aka everyone)! How psyched were you to watch Quinn beat the crap out of that douche Tommy and wrap his sexy assassin hand around a gun once again? We are truly blessed!
After trying to get frisky with Carrie and getting his stinky ass rejected (maybe if you'd showered like she asked, you could've gotten lucky, dude... just sayin'), Quinn went on a rampage, taking out his sexual frustration on Tommy's face and stealing the scumbag's gun.
*Quinn hits Tommy across the head*
Tommy: Fuck, man!
Quinn: So, that's the two thousand I owe you, less...
Quinn's back! (Maybe)
Howdy Quinn lovers (Aka everyone)! How psyched were you to watch Quinn beat the crap out of that douche Tommy and wrap his sexy assassin hand around a gun once again? We are truly blessed!
After trying to get frisky with Carrie and getting his stinky ass rejected (maybe if you'd showered like she asked, you could've gotten lucky, dude... just sayin'), Quinn went on a rampage, taking out his sexual frustration on Tommy's face and stealing the scumbag's gun.
*Quinn hits Tommy across the head*
Tommy: Fuck, man!
Quinn: So, that's the two thousand I owe you, less...
- 1/30/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
David Crow Jan 30, 2017
Homeland thickens the fog of distrust between a new president and her intelligence community in this intriguing episode.
This Homeland review contains spoilers.
So you’re all still here? The sky has not fallen? Good. Then again, it’s the start of the week and since we all know the presidency is a Monday through Friday job, who knows what the world will look like by the time the third episode of Homeland season 6 airs? But in the meantime, “The Man in the Basement” continues the positive growth first established by last week’s premiere, suggesting the series might be on an upswing as we enter a world far more reflective of what once seemed like sensationalistic fiction.
This week, Homeland hammered successfully on the two plot threads that really worked so well last week, suggesting the hooks of the year will indeed be chronicling the nightmare...
Homeland thickens the fog of distrust between a new president and her intelligence community in this intriguing episode.
This Homeland review contains spoilers.
So you’re all still here? The sky has not fallen? Good. Then again, it’s the start of the week and since we all know the presidency is a Monday through Friday job, who knows what the world will look like by the time the third episode of Homeland season 6 airs? But in the meantime, “The Man in the Basement” continues the positive growth first established by last week’s premiere, suggesting the series might be on an upswing as we enter a world far more reflective of what once seemed like sensationalistic fiction.
This week, Homeland hammered successfully on the two plot threads that really worked so well last week, suggesting the hooks of the year will indeed be chronicling the nightmare...
- 1/23/2017
- Den of Geek
The Performer | Rupert Friend
The Show | Homeland
The Episode | “Fair Game” (Jan. 15, 2017)
The Performance | For the past four seasons, Homeland’s Peter Quinn has been seemingly indestructible, repeatedly cheating death as a daredevil CIA operative. But in Sunday’s Season 6 premiere, actor Rupert Friend heartbreakingly showed us the massive toll that all those brushes with death have taken on Quinn’s body — and soul.
After a chemical-weapon attack put him in a coma last season, Quinn emerged alive, but a shell of his former self. And Friend looked the part in the premiere, almost unrecognizable with scraggly facial hair and darting,...
The Show | Homeland
The Episode | “Fair Game” (Jan. 15, 2017)
The Performance | For the past four seasons, Homeland’s Peter Quinn has been seemingly indestructible, repeatedly cheating death as a daredevil CIA operative. But in Sunday’s Season 6 premiere, actor Rupert Friend heartbreakingly showed us the massive toll that all those brushes with death have taken on Quinn’s body — and soul.
After a chemical-weapon attack put him in a coma last season, Quinn emerged alive, but a shell of his former self. And Friend looked the part in the premiere, almost unrecognizable with scraggly facial hair and darting,...
- 1/21/2017
- TVLine.com
The season six premiere of Homeland shed light on Peter Quinn’s (Rupert Friend) current condition after his exposure to sarin gas last season. Homeland Season Six Premiere: The New Peter Quinn We find out that Quinn is indeed alive, but not doing physically well. Carrie (Claire Danes) is unhappy to hear he has been skipping his physical therapy […]
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- 1/16/2017
- by Hillary Luehring-Jones
- Uinterview
Carrie's back, folks! And not the crazy "Omg what's she doing?" Carrie of seasons past, but a more mature, centered, and self-assured Carrie.
As Carrie goes, so does the series. Homeland Season 6 Episode 1 has the bearing of a show that's all grown up, short on thrills and gimmicks, generous with nuanced character moments.
Picking up six months after events in Berlin, season six moves to New York City, where Carrie has established a nonprofit law practice dedicated to defending Muslim-Americans coming under the FBI's over-eager radar.
She is also caring for Peter Quinn, who is alive (surprise!) and stubbornly fighting rehab at a Va hospital. Dar and Saul are in town, briefing President-elect Elizabeth Keane on all things CIA.
Quinn, alas, is a hot mess. Fortunately, the show delivers the bad news with characteristic dark humor. When Carrie nags him to push through even when the going gets tough, Quinn interrupts,...
As Carrie goes, so does the series. Homeland Season 6 Episode 1 has the bearing of a show that's all grown up, short on thrills and gimmicks, generous with nuanced character moments.
Picking up six months after events in Berlin, season six moves to New York City, where Carrie has established a nonprofit law practice dedicated to defending Muslim-Americans coming under the FBI's over-eager radar.
She is also caring for Peter Quinn, who is alive (surprise!) and stubbornly fighting rehab at a Va hospital. Dar and Saul are in town, briefing President-elect Elizabeth Keane on all things CIA.
Quinn, alas, is a hot mess. Fortunately, the show delivers the bad news with characteristic dark humor. When Carrie nags him to push through even when the going gets tough, Quinn interrupts,...
- 1/16/2017
- by Vivian Figueredo
- TVfanatic
We’ve got good news and bad news, Homeland fans. The good news: Sunday’s Season 6 premiere, “Fair Game,” confirms that bad-ass CIA assassin Peter Quinn is indeed alive. (Yay!) The bad news: Yeah, he’s not in such great shape.
After getting dosed with a chemical weapon last season and falling into a coma, Quinn somehow miraculously survived. (He is one tough cookie, after all.) But though he’s recovering in a Va hospital in New York City, Carrie discovers he’s not showing up for physical therapy like he should. When she does track him down, he looks terrible: weak,...
After getting dosed with a chemical weapon last season and falling into a coma, Quinn somehow miraculously survived. (He is one tough cookie, after all.) But though he’s recovering in a Va hospital in New York City, Carrie discovers he’s not showing up for physical therapy like he should. When she does track him down, he looks terrible: weak,...
- 1/16/2017
- TVLine.com
David Crow Jan 23, 2017
The Homeland season 6 premiere is more prescient than ever as an intelligence community and a new president cross paths...
This review contains spoilers.
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6.1 Fair Game
Not since perhaps its first year has a Homeland season premiered at a more appropriate time. Debuting in the shadow of Osama Bin Laden’s death, which had in turn released a massive cultural sigh of relief after the anxiety that haunted the Bush years, season 1 of Homeland came out a time when Americans were taking some perspective on the incomprehensible tragedy that was 9/11, and deciding they wanted to turn a page as the Obama era came into full-swing.
With its freshman effort, Homeland provided a...
The Homeland season 6 premiere is more prescient than ever as an intelligence community and a new president cross paths...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Justice League: Cyborg, Flash, Batman & more in new pic Future DC films will be "hopeful and optimistic" DC Comics movies: upcoming UK release dates calendar The Crow reboot to finally shoot in January
6.1 Fair Game
Not since perhaps its first year has a Homeland season premiered at a more appropriate time. Debuting in the shadow of Osama Bin Laden’s death, which had in turn released a massive cultural sigh of relief after the anxiety that haunted the Bush years, season 1 of Homeland came out a time when Americans were taking some perspective on the incomprehensible tragedy that was 9/11, and deciding they wanted to turn a page as the Obama era came into full-swing.
With its freshman effort, Homeland provided a...
- 1/16/2017
- Den of Geek
The Crown Season 1
This is going to be a relatively unusual column today as I am frequently stopping to watch the New York Giants/Green Bay Packers wild card game. Right now there are 20 seconds left in the 1st quarter, the G’ints just punted, and Green Bay’s drive will start on the 45 yard line. The Giants should be up by at least one touchdown, but Beckham has dropped two perfect passes in the end zone – commentators Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are speculating that it’s because of the cold weather and although that’s possible, that’s not what I expect from a player of Beckham’s caliber. He made the All-Pro team this year. Anyway, the G’ints are up by a field goal (that’s three points for you non-football fans out there) and Green Bay has yet to put anything on the board.
I...
This is going to be a relatively unusual column today as I am frequently stopping to watch the New York Giants/Green Bay Packers wild card game. Right now there are 20 seconds left in the 1st quarter, the G’ints just punted, and Green Bay’s drive will start on the 45 yard line. The Giants should be up by at least one touchdown, but Beckham has dropped two perfect passes in the end zone – commentators Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are speculating that it’s because of the cold weather and although that’s possible, that’s not what I expect from a player of Beckham’s caliber. He made the All-Pro team this year. Anyway, the G’ints are up by a field goal (that’s three points for you non-football fans out there) and Green Bay has yet to put anything on the board.
I...
- 1/9/2017
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
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