Roush Review: Homeland Is Fall's Best New Drama

Claire Danes Showtime is going to enhance the dramatic stakes every sunday, that have been already plenty high. Network TV's finest adult drama, CBS' The Great Wife, lately gone to live in the evening, ABC just released a scrumptious bit of escapism in Pan Am, the 2nd season of HBO's luxurious Prohibition period piece Boardwalk Empire has already been going ahead, as well as in two days, AMC resurrects its terrifyingly graphic zombie thriller The Walking Dead. Threatening to upstage the area is Showtime's effective one-two punch, beginning this Sunday: the return from the ever-popular Dexter (9/8c), now in the sixth bloody cycle of under-the-radar serial killing, which supplies a mighty lead-into the fall's most riveting new drama, Homeland.Want more Fall TV News? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!Right now, we are accustomed to Dexter's darkly compelling juggling act, killing individuals who deserve it in the off hrs while showing up in the clock for that Miami police and feigning a façade of normality in the home existence, which now includes the task of single being a parent. But a much more fascinating mystery of duality are available in the mental thriller Homeland (10/9c), in the producers of 24, that provides two tortured heroes for that cost of 1.Within the situation of Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (the electrifying Damian Lewis), we are speaking actual torture. Saved after eight years in difficult Al-Qaeda captivity, Brody is beset by alarming flashbacks and evening terrors because he faces an uneasy hero's homecoming to an enormous amount of secrets and lies as well as an awkward duration of adjustment having a family that barely knows him, including V's Morena Baccarin, very affecting as his psychologically overcome wife.Brody's finest obstacle, though, might be Barbara Mathison, an unsound loose cannon of the CIA analyst, performed with fiery intensity by Claire Danes. She's reason to think the inscrutable Brody might have been switched while a prisoner, and might be a sleeper agent suggested as a factor inside a pending terrorist attack. She strongly chases her accusations, repel her bosses and jeopardizing her one remaining professional relationship, together with her naturally concerned mentor (a properly understated Mandy Patinkin).It might be rapidly apparent that Brody is hiding something, and also the more we obtain inside his mind, the greater disturbing our perception of his situation becomes. Lewis conveys Brody's stress, disorientation - and many important, his ambiguity - genuinely. And unsettling are Carrie's rogue actions, together with a creepily voyeuristic invasion of his privacy. "Me? No. I am never done!" she states (brags?) to 1 of her contacts.Who's the actual terrorist? Who's the monster? Shows like Homeland possess a method of keeping us enchantingly off balance. Can't think about a location I'd prefer or perhaps a show I'd more recommend.Sign up to TV Guide Magazine now!