‘Homeland’: Season 1 Episode 7 review
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.
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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.
After Bilyana’s booting from the boardroom last week, 15 candidates remain. But it’s not all flogging printed tat to tourists, oh no.
Fans of Jon Pertwee’s paternalistic Doctor have always found plenty to love in 1971’s The Daemons.
Shada is unique among Doctor Who stories in existing in its own time-space bubble.
Julian Fellowes ties his characters’ stories to that of the doomed ship, giving this opening episode an almost tidal sense of unity with its complex relationships.
The relationship between Claire Danes and Damien Lewis is rapidly becoming the highlight of this superb series.
From the opening scene, there is an epic quality to the episode which suggests that anything can happen.
Rivalling the legacy of James Cameron’s 1997 epic, a film that defined the youth of numerous potential viewers of the new drama, is no easy task.