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Homeland: Claire Danes will be watching you.

BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
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2011's best show is just a few short weeks of away from the start of it's 2nd season. And there is a pretty awesome trailer!



Character Descriptions below contain significant spoilers for season 1 inside the tags:

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Claire Danes stars as our nominal hero, CIA Analyst Carrie Mathison.
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Damien Lewis is Nicholas Brody, Carrie's suspected terrorist. He was part of a marine sniper team that was captured and held for years.
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Mandy Patinkin is Inigo Montoya Saul Berenson, a CIA division chief and Carrie's mentor. His beard is awesome and he is frequently Carrie's only ally against

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David Harewood as CIA Counter-terrorism Director David Estes. A former lover of Carrie's, now her direct supervisor
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The lovely Morena Baccarin plays Jessica Brody the oft-naked wife of Nicholas, who had given her husband up for dead and had begun fucking his best friend during his five year absence.
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Morgan Saylor as his teenage daughter Dana,
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The first season comes out on DVD/Blu-Ray on August 28th.
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Here is a more straightforward trailer that sets up the first season if you are curious in checking it out for the first time.



The season 2 premiere will be September 30th at 10pm, after the season premiere of the vastly inferior Dexter.

Claire Danes will be watching, will you?

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Registered User regular
    why would you spoil the ending of the first season before pimping the dvd for it

    and that is a silly sounding ending.

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I haven't watched this show but I've been meaning to

  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    The ending was awesome and what seemed silly to me was making an OP talking about what season 1 was about for the upcoming season 2.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I haven't watched this show but I've been meaning to

    GG it was no lie the best show on tv of the 2011-12 season. Better than Game of Thrones, better than Justified, better than Parks and Rec or Breaking Bad or Mad Men.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    A friend of mine is a production assistant on this in Charlotte and it sounds pretty cool

    The crew were all out drinking the other night and Damian Lewis came in, put his card down on the bar and said everyone's drinks were on him, and left

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Also he has been right next to both Claire Danes and Morena Baccarin and has yet to talk to either of them

  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Was Morena Baccarin naked any of those times


    because that happens on this show

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Ok
    You sold me

  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Brother of the Bug Registered User regular
    What makes this show so good? I'm willing to give it a shot, but the plot twists sound sort of strange.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    What makes this show so good? I'm willing to give it a shot, but the plot twists sound sort of strange.

    There's pretty much nothing it dosen't have. The performances are incredible across the board, particularly in the two leads, and the series is impeccably plotted and can achieve levels of tension and danger that only Breaking Bad can match. I'd agree that just reading a summary of some of what happens might make it sound ridiculous, but I assure you pretty much everything that happens is absolutely believable and grounded in the characters, that's actually one of the most impressive things about the show, that it walks this highwire act balancing the twists and turns of an espionage thriller with a focused character drama.

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    I wouldn't say it was better than Game Of Thrones or Breaking Bad but it was definitely an awesome show and well worth watching

  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Tef wrote: »
    I wouldn't say it was better than Game Of Thrones or Breaking Bad but it was definitely an awesome show and well worth watching

    I liked season 1 of Homeland more than season 2 of GoT or season 4 of Breaking Bad, is what I meant by that.

    Overall Breaking Bad is a better show because there's a larger sample size of continued excellence, and season 3 of BB was one of the greatest tv seasons of all time.

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Tef wrote: »
    I wouldn't say it was better than Game Of Thrones or Breaking Bad but it was definitely an awesome show and well worth watching

    I liked season 1 of Homeland more than season 2 of GoT or season 4 of Breaking Bad, is what I meant by that.

    Overall Breaking Bad is a better show because there's a larger sample size of continued excellence, and season 3 of BB was one of the greatest tv seasons of all time.

    Oh yeah for sure and I was just giving my opinion :)

    It's a bloody good show at any rate

  • OrthancOrthanc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I really enjoyed season 1, but most of the fun was really the uncertainty of whether Brody actually was a terrorist or not. The continual back and forth was what made it really engaging. Now that we know he is I'm not convinced that it will have the same appeal.

    For all that I'll definitely be watching when it's finally shown here.

  • SorceSorce Registered User regular
    Yeah, I was a big fan of the first season, and I'll be tuning in for the second. May even pick up S1 on DVD when it's released.

  • RanlinRanlin Oh gosh Registered User regular
    Yeah, Bale, I dunno about spoiling all of season 1 in the OP. Never being sure either way was a big part of what got me to watch it.

    Not the only reason by any stretch, I love Damien Lewis and they were all fantastic performances, but it was one of the few times that the mystery of it actually interested me instead of just annoyed me because it was very well handled.

  • Blake TBlake T Registered User regular
    I loved the shit out if the first season.

    I also loved Claire Danes' performance. It was like nothing she had ever done fire and it was so refreshing.

  • 101101 Registered User regular
    The first season was so good. Claire Danes and Damien Lewis put in some great performances.

    Definitely watching the second season/getting the first

  • godmodegodmode Registered User regular
    Not a fan. At all.

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    @godmode I'm interested to know why.

  • WeaverWeaver Cap'n NEW CRUNCH CITYRegistered User regular
    Back in the late 90's, when I was teenager, listening to Greenday, 311, RATM, Floyd, & such,

    spending my evenings either skateboarding, rollerblading(both badly) around or just climbing up every last structure I could get to

    I had the hugest crush on Claire Danes.

    Behold, the 90's

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  • godmodegodmode Registered User regular
    Tef wrote: »
    @godmode I'm interested to know why.

    I don't like the implication that a Marine would become a terrorist. I mean, of course it's happened before in some ways, like Lee Harvey Oswald, but because of the modern setting it feels more personal. And I don't like it.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    godmode wrote: »
    Tef wrote: »
    @godmode I'm interested to know why.

    I don't like the implication that a Marine would become a terrorist. I mean, of course it's happened before in some ways, like Lee Harvey Oswald, but because of the modern setting it feels more personal. And I don't like it.

    No offense here godmode but you are talking a little bit out of your ass here if you haven't actually seen the show. Brody is in no way an unsympathetic character.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    The OP has also been newbie proofed a bit, and I've added a trailer for the first season in case people are interested in checking that out on DVD

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase It's all in the game though, right?Registered User, ClubPA regular
    You had me at Mandy Pantinkin.

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    godmode wrote: »
    Tef wrote: »
    @godmode I'm interested to know why.

    I don't like the implication that a Marine would become a terrorist. I mean, of course it's happened before in some ways, like Lee Harvey Oswald, but because of the modern setting it feels more personal. And I don't like it.

    Yeah, that's understandable

  • HacksawHacksaw The "New Scum" Registered User regular
    godmode wrote: »
    Tef wrote: »
    @godmode I'm interested to know why.

    I don't like the implication that a Marine would become a terrorist. I mean, of course it's happened before in some ways, like Lee Harvey Oswald, but because of the modern setting it feels more personal. And I don't like it.

    It feels more "personal"? Do you think the series creator was sitting in his chair one day and though "how can I make a show that offends godmode the most? OH I KNOW"?

    Because if so, you have an ego the size of an aircraft carrier.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    This actually looks really cool

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    godmode wrote: »
    Tef wrote: »
    @godmode I'm interested to know why.

    I don't like the implication that a Marine would become a terrorist. I mean, of course it's happened before in some ways, like Lee Harvey Oswald, but because of the modern setting it feels more personal. And I don't like it.

    It feels more "personal"? Do you think the series creator was sitting in his chair one day and though "how can I make a show that offends godmode the most? OH I KNOW"?

    Because if so, you have an ego the size of an aircraft carrier.

    Hey

    Hey

    Shut the fuck up

    Do you seriously think what you just posted?

  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    Tef wrote: »
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    godmode wrote: »
    Tef wrote: »
    @godmode I'm interested to know why.

    I don't like the implication that a Marine would become a terrorist. I mean, of course it's happened before in some ways, like Lee Harvey Oswald, but because of the modern setting it feels more personal. And I don't like it.

    It feels more "personal"? Do you think the series creator was sitting in his chair one day and though "how can I make a show that offends godmode the most? OH I KNOW"?

    Because if so, you have an ego the size of an aircraft carrier.

    Hey

    Hey

    Shut the fuck up

    Do you seriously think what you just posted?

    Maybe godmode sat in a chair and thought "how can I make a post that offends Hacksaw the most? OH I KNOW".

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  • godmodegodmode Registered User regular
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    godmode wrote: »
    Tef wrote: »
    @godmode I'm interested to know why.

    I don't like the implication that a Marine would become a terrorist. I mean, of course it's happened before in some ways, like Lee Harvey Oswald, but because of the modern setting it feels more personal. And I don't like it.

    It feels more "personal"? Do you think the series creator was sitting in his chair one day and though "how can I make a show that offends godmode the most? OH I KNOW"?

    Because if so, you have an ego the size of an aircraft carrier.

    That's not what I mean at all. It feels more personal to me as a Marine and Iraq veteran, whereas Oswald (in this comparison) was a veteran of another war and a product of a different generation.
    And @Balefuego, you're right that I'm completely talking out of my ass, but it's just looking at it and knowing what it's about tells me enough that it's not something I would enjoy watching.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Hmm
    I don't know that Lee Harvey Oswald was the same sort of case

  • godmodegodmode Registered User regular
    Perhaps. He was just the first I thought of, considering he was a Marine that went on to assassinate a president after sympathizing with a foreign country.

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  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    Charles Whitman??

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  • godmodegodmode Registered User regular
    Well, Whitman can't have been the first I thought of if I thought of Oswald first!

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    @godmode

    Season one spoilers in here
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    It's fine if that still ain't your thing, but I think what you got in your head is not at all anything like what this show actually is.

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  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    godmode wrote: »
    Well, Whitman can't have been the first I thought of if I thought of Oswald first!

    i know that...but he was also upset and crazy and in the marines and killed lots of people. I'M JUST TRYING TO GIVE YOU EXAMPLES, FRIEND!

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  • 101101 Registered User regular
    I may be mis-remembering, but
    Spoiler:

  • godmodegodmode Registered User regular
    godmode wrote: »
    Well, Whitman can't have been the first I thought of if I thought of Oswald first!

    i know that...but he was also upset and crazy and in the marines and killed lots of people. I'M JUST TRYING TO GIVE YOU EXAMPLES, FRIEND!

    That actually was the one I was trying to think of earlier and couldn't remember the name :P So good call.
    Balefuego wrote: »
    @godmode

    Season one spoilers in here
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    It's fine if that still ain't your thing, but I think what you got in your head is not at all anything like what this show actually is.

    Admittedly that is better than the plot I had imagined. I don't know. We'll see.

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  • Blake TBlake T Registered User regular
    Wait so you haven't even seen it.

    It's a but unfair to judge it without seeing it dude.

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