![]() ![]() On that last count, Homeland, as much as I love it, is already pushing its luck. What makes people trust each other? Do we give people our trust for rational, defensible reasons or because they’re deceiving us, pushing our buttons, telling us what they know we want to hear? Can we trust the show’s main characters to do the right thing - to be ethical and patriotic and act in the country’s (and their own) best interest?Īnd on a creative level, can Homeland itself be trusted? Can we trust Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa’s now-Emmy-winning show to play fair with the audience, springing entertaining new revelations on us without making the characters seem inconsistent? And can we trust this drama, which last year often felt like it would have made a perfect self-contained miniseries, to keep its plot going for another year, or several more years, without seeming as though it’s running on fumes? How long can the Brody-as-volatile-sleeper-agent premise play out without making the writers look desperate and the show seem, well, kind of dumb? ![]() ![]() More than anything else, Homeland is about trust.
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