Posted on 01/13/2017 2:55:09 PM PST by KeyLargo
‘Homeland,’ Season 6 Review: A Politically Correct Carrie
Gone is the series’ original vitality, replaced with predictable politeness.
By Dorothy Rabinowitz Jan. 12, 2017 6:00 p.m. ET 48 COMMENTS
It’s a far from familiar Carrie, bipolar scourge of terrorists, who shows up in season 6 of “Homeland,’’ set in that destination strivers around the world dream of living in—namely, Brooklyn. She’s there having abandoned any further service to the CIA, because—she makes clear in the show’s opening episodes—she’s become increasingly dismayed by America’s policies in the Middle East. Not to mention at home, where she’s appalled to discover that the U.S government has been taking the threat of homegrown terrorism seriously and going so far as to investigate enthusiasts of jihad, creators of websites for the dissemination of messages from Islamic State, devotees of suicide bombers, and even charging some suspected of connection with terror networks abroad.
Homeland, season 6
Begins Sunday, 9 p.m., Showtime
‘Divided States of America’
So it is that we find an even more chronically infuriated Carrie than the one of previous seasons. Instead of chasing around the capitals of the world hunting down terrorists about to set off explosions intended to take the lives of tens of thousands of unbelievers, she’s now spending her days in her Brooklyn offices devoted to legal defense of Muslim males she considers unjustly charged victims of the U.S. government. Unjustly charged in many ways, in Carrie’s view—the most remarkable aspect of which is her complaint that the government investigators aiming to prevent the next mass murder of
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Season 5 is coming next week on my dvd netflix queue. That may be my last season as well.
I’ll watch the first few episodes to see if there’s a devotion to Islam. 24 also had a lame Islam outreach season.
Talk radio today, maybe Rush was saying that the producers assumed that Hillary would be POTUS and wanted the series more friendly to Muslims.
I understand that the president in Season 6 is a female and was the junior senator from New York. #LOL
That makes sense. Maybe the last episode of season 6 will show Carrie having an epiphany about her actions, and she will resume her previous course of action.
A more realistic season 6 finale would have Carrie raped and murdered by one of her clients.
You mean designated survivor? Or is the new 24 going to go left also?
From her Park Slope home, she can fight the real terrorists (far right Trumpists and alt-right White supremacists) through her progressive mommy blog and by buying artisenal, locally sourced bread.
I have seen the first ep and it is quite comical and very obvious what their agenda is/was.
I just signed up for Showtime so I could watch this???
I’ll give it a couple weeks, then make a decision.
The eventual fate of most popular TV/Cable shows.
They start off with great storylines, then when ideas are exhausted or they’ve boxed them selves in as far as development goes, the go for the political messaging.
There have been quite a few shows that I watched and liked until they turned to political messaging. Then I stop watching them.
If I wanted fake news and fake opinions I would just tune into one of the cable news channels and get real fake news, not fake fake news.
I heard that from Rush too.......While I've never watched this series, I can understand how the hollywood leftists may have screwed it up.........
“Last month there was a preview of sorts of the “Homeland” to come in a New York Times interview with Howard Gordon, a creator and executive producer of the show, along with Joshua Safran, creator of ABC’s “Quantico,” and others concerned with the entertainment industry’s obligation to avoid creating shows involving threats from Muslim terrorists. Mr. Safran’s solution was simple: “to not ever put a Muslim terrorist on our show.” Mr. Gordon described himself as “pretty upset” about the problem, and recalled the shock of finding graffiti, spray-painted on the set in Berlin, accusing “Homeland” of being racist. He and showrunner Alex Gansa—described as “stunned” at the charge—proceeded to hold conversations that, Mr. Gordon suggests, ultimately led to this new season’s story.”
One of the latter seasons of the old 24.
end of the show....
“I understand that the president in Season 6 is a female and was the junior senator from New York. “
ROTFLOL!
So, I wonder if that President is ALSO a former SoS, or did they change that part of things just a tiny little bit to, you know, “fictionalize” that President?
“by buying artisenal, locally sourced bread”
organic, dairy free, and gluten free too, right?
“recalled the shock of finding graffiti, spray-painted on the set ... ultimately led to this new season’s story.”
You know, you might have just hit the nail on the head as to why U.S. network TV and Hollywood movies are so putrid as to be completely watchable: the stories are driven by the need to assuage the shock of onset graffiti! I’ve always wondered why TV and movie writing during the last couple of decades has been so execrable; now I know: the pervasive influence of graffiti.
yes, and delivered by hipster manic pixies riding fixies.
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