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Homeland: Claire Danes will be watching you.
Balefuego
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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!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh_TPjZJCRcCharacter Descriptions below contain significant spoilers for season 1 inside the tags:
Claire Danes stars as our nominal hero, CIA Analyst Carrie Mathison.
I say nominal because she spent the entire first season illegally surveilling a returned pow war hero because she was convinced he was a terrorist agent. Oh and she also ended up fucking him and then telling him she was doing it, and then he actually was a terrorist but she dosen't remember that she figured it out because she's bipolar and had a complete mental breakdown at the end of the season. A TRUE AMERICAN HERO.
Damien Lewis is Nicholas Brody, Carrie's suspected terrorist. He was part of a marine sniper team that was captured and held for years.
Over the course of his captivity he befriended the young son of his captor Abu Nazir, who was subsequently killed in an american bombing attack. Brody and his partner turned and came home as part of a plot to assassinate the Vice President. Of course I say nominal again because despite getting into the same room as his target with a bomb strapped to his chest, he was unable to pull the trigger, getting talked down by his teenage daughter. He then killed his terrorist partner, and convinced the terrorist bossman to let him run as a sort of Manchurian Candidate.
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
David Harewood as CIA Counter-terrorism Director David Estes. A former lover of Carrie's, now her direct supervisor
and along with Vice President William Walden one of the two men who authorized and then covered up the drone strike that killed Abu Nazir's son along with 81 other children.
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.
They've done their best to make things work despite Nicholas' detachment, and while she is suspicious of his relationship with Carrie, she has no idea what her husband is really mixed up in.
Morgan Saylor as his teenage daughter Dana,
who is the only member of the family that knows that Nicholas is now a Muslim, and who was so shaken by Carrie's intrusion into thier home last season that she called Nicholas and begged him not to do whatever it was that he was going to do.
The first season comes out on DVD/Blu-Ray on August 28th.
Here is a more straightforward trailer that sets up the first season if you are curious in checking it out for the first time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4-KYAWPKzYThe 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?
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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and that is a silly sounding ending.
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.
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
because that happens on this show
You sold me
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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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
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For all that I'll definitely be watching when it's finally shown here.
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.
I also loved Claire Danes' performance. It was like nothing she had ever done fire and it was so refreshing.
Satans..... hints.....
Definitely watching the second season/getting the first
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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
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.
Yeah, that's understandable
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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?
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Maybe godmode sat in a chair and thought "how can I make a post that offends Hacksaw the most? OH I KNOW".
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.
I don't know that Lee Harvey Oswald was the same sort of case
Season one spoilers in here
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.
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.
Admittedly that is better than the plot I had imagined. I don't know. We'll see.
It's a but unfair to judge it without seeing it dude.
Satans..... hints.....