‘Homeland’: Season 1 Episode 8 review
It’s the episode that drives forward the final section of the series, picking up from last week’s summer vacation with a fresh burst of pace.
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It’s the episode that drives forward the final section of the series, picking up from last week’s summer vacation with a fresh burst of pace.
It’s business as usual as another motley bunch of new and old horror contenders step into the ring for a bloody fight to the death.
Maria was sent to bed early last week, leaving 14 candidates to continue battling it out in the corporate Hunger Games that is The Apprentice.
This penultimate episode puts increasing pressure on the finale to deliver both climactic conclusions for the various erratic story lines and a sufficiently cathartic end to satisfy viewers.
As a reintroduction to such a sprawling, complex series, this is pretty near perfect.
Wrath of the Titans‘ story and performances are strong enough to provide more than an exercise in computer wizardry.
In the second instalment of ITV1’s Titanic mini-series it’s the turn of money rather than sexual morality to take centre stage.
The genius of Homeland is that we genuinely don’t know who to trust. Every character that might be telling porkies has a compelling explanation for their suspicious behaviour.
Perhaps consciously striving to avoid Lost-style confusion, the script is still somewhat simplistic, which sometimes means that it ends up working against itself.
Kicking things off this month, we have the first foray into this genre by verbose Clerks/Mallrats/Cop Out director Kevin Smith, the thinly veiled Waco siege satire Red State.