EW's 25 Best TV Shows in 25 Years | <em>Homeland</em> (2012) | EW.com 

“The season 2 premiere abruptly dispatched a thread that had been so carefully woven into the first season — that’d be the attempt by Damian Lewis’ former POW Brody to keep his devotion to Islam a secret, known in the West only by his daughter and us. It also took Claire Danes’ disgraced CIA agent Carrie from, in her sister’s words, “a good place” to the CIA-spy equivalent, which is being plunged into “a bad place.” Then the series brought the pair together — as workers, as lovers — and things got really complicated.

isn’t really operating on the same playing field as other shows: Plot twists and cliff-hangers have become almost meaningless terms — or, rather, beside the point. The entire series is a twist on what an hour-long drama usually aims to accomplish over the course of a full season.

maximizes its entertainment value with its excellent acting, dialogue, and — running beneath the drama like an electric current — jolting, disruptive storytelling, which tricks you in the best way. This is not a TV show with a deep “mythology” for parsing Internet diehards—instead, it’s mass entertainment at the highest level.”  – 

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