what HOMELAND should have been.,,

A_Different_Drummer

OK, before the Homeland fans go wonky and start posting, let me say that Homeland was a superb soap opera with marvellous acting but as an action series, to quote Don Rickles, watching a fly crawl up a drape is more exciting. And then we have this series. Wow. Not just superb location shots AND superb acting (Richard Armitage steals all his scenes with a rare combination of cunning, trustworthiness and physicality) AND action. Yes, there are subplots and betrayals galore, but the priority is, thankfully, to keep the characters moving forward. Which is what one might have expected in a show about war, albeit a shadowy one with unclear combatants. Superb in first-run, and equally good as a video treat in the present.

score 9/10

A_Different_Drummer 25 February 2014

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2969883/