Homeland
I am a huge fan of HBO and American television series in general. My favourite show of all time is The Wire closely followed by 24.
I hadn't even heard of Homeland until I saw the winners and losers from last Mondays Golden Globes. Homeland picked up Best Series and Claire Danes picked up the Best Actress award for a TV series. So I thought it would be worth a watch and it certainly didn't disappoint.
I do enjoy it when British actors and actresses go over to Hollywood and steal every scene they're in and it takes an internet search to work out if they're actually British because their accent is so convincing. Such as Idris Elba as Russell 'Stringer' Bell and Dominic West as 'Jimmy' McNulty in the Wire, Hugh Laurie as House and so on. So when I took to Wikipedia to look up Homeland I was delighted to see one of our own was the star of the show - Damien Lewis. Lewis starred as Major Richard 'Dick' Winters in Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed mini series Band of Brothers. Frankly from this point on I was sold, I loved Band of Brothers (I have yet to meet anyone else who didn't) and I thought Lewis was fantastic as Winters.
The series also stars Danes as a CIA officer who suspects Brody after receiving intelligence from one of her Iraqi sources.
Two episodes in and I'm hooked. Is Brody who he says he is or is Mathison right to suspect him? As the audience you are constantly questioning who to believe. You want Brody to be the hero everyone says he is but his actions are very suspect to say the least. Is Mathison just paranoid? She does have a mood disorder that calls her judgement into question.
Two episodes in and I'm hooked. Is Brody who he says he is or is Mathison right to suspect him? As the audience you are constantly questioning who to believe. You want Brody to be the hero everyone says he is but his actions are very suspect to say the least. Is Mathison just paranoid? She does have a mood disorder that calls her judgement into question.
Its production values are similar to that of a summer blockbuster as is its budget I imagine. The amount of money TV executives must throw at a single episode must be greater than what us Brits spend on an entire series.
Now The Wire, 24 and Bored to Death have all come to an end it seems Homeland will become my next obsession alongside the brilliant Walking Dead (which is on one of those stupid mid season breaks).
I urge anyone and everyone to tune in.
This is TV at its best.
Homeland is coming to Channel 4 sometime this year. Series two has already been commissioned.
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