08.08.16
TV: Homeland, why was it good?
Hulu has been pushing four seasons-worth of “Homeland,” a TV show I’ve read a lot about but still avoided. Finally took the plunge and watched season 1 (from way back in 2011) over the weekend. I laughed at the season finish: Nuts CIA operative Carrie Matheson being given electroshock, the cliff-hanger suspense delivered by whether or not she would remember the name “Issa”. For a show on terrorism, it consigns its “terrorists” to secondary roles and makes the idea of two Marines being traitors (Brody really isn’t, it seems, just someone with a conscience) more odious by shooting the African-American at the end just to wrap things up.
And the security of the “homeland,” resting on the result of electroshock? Please. “The first season received near universal acclaim,” reads Wiki. Did it fill a need for upper middle class Americans who wanted a war on terror drama about snivelling white people (Carrie, Saul, Nick)?
Do all teams of government agents drive Chevy Suburbans?
Christoph Hechl said,
August 9, 2016 at 8:24 am
Actually i quite like the show, neither upper, nor middle class, not even american.
As with any fiction you have to accept the setting, or not. I never expected a realistic depiction of anything, but found the acting great.
anon said,
August 13, 2016 at 6:46 pm
Have you seen Damian Lewis in the HBO mini-series, *Band of Brothers*?
It’s worth a watch, or a listen, just to hear his dead-on matching of a Pennsylvania accent. I was watching it as a rerun a while ago, I closed my eyes and could have sworn it was my father talking.
George Smith said,
August 14, 2016 at 11:56 am
No, haven’t seen a lick of it. I’ll have to scratch around on couchtuner. Don’t know if Huku has it I’ll check tonight.