Personally I am really disappointed about "hacking" CIA and stealing some documents part. It's far away from the reality, and quite funny to see this kind of scene in a tv show like this. Yeah let's attack to CIA's firewall weakness by using our adult cam servers and let's steal all the data. In the end it's quite common to attack a server when you are sure that it's "government".
Looks like Queen will continue to be the Terminator and Carrie will find herself into action sooner or later. So far it just continues like Season 4, nothing is fancy. Last season was fully focused on Carrie and in my opinion it got boring after some point, I hope it doesn't continue like this. Queen is good enough to be co-star instead of being a hitman and appear on show every few episodes. Well Soul is Soul so I think nothing will be changed about him, he will just keep being angry dad of the CIA.
Meh. It was good but not GREAT. This show it's all about ups and downs. I hope this season is an UP. I'm always glad to see Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson, wich is darker in this season, of course.
Loved seeing Quinn back in action this season! Homeland is such a stellar show, definitely top notch writing and cast. And they are all over current events. Very much needed series.
Not much for a season opener, lots of loose ends from last season which didn't get closure.
Carrie, new country, new home, new man in her life - seems the past cannot leave her alone. I enjoyed the episode, lots of groundwork here and strangely a montage at the end to entice you with what looks like everything coming up in the next 11 episodes; looks like a killer season
Fräulein, nobody says that in germany!
Thought it was a very boring start to season.
Would anyone please tell the writers that no one in Germany calls a woman Fräulein any more. That said, nice picturing of Berlin. Good season opening, waiting for more.
I'm gonna watch this again. couldn't stay focussed for some reason. from what I've seen, I expected a lot more.
Amazing start! Excited for this season!
Oh, this is very different, in a good way.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2015-10-08T15:58:07Z
Perfectly acceptable, if not exactly scintillating season premiere. There was a lot of time and exposition spent establishing not only what the characters are/have been doing after a two-year time jump, but also where the characters' relationships are after that time, and while it was absolutely necessary, it had sort of a perfunctory "just getting you up to speed" feel to it. Some parts of of it were more artful than other parts, but overall it felt a bit rote.
That said, I'm intrigued, if mistrustful, about where this season is going. Carrie's "I try to get out, but they pull me back in" story could be interesting in execution, but feels like the kind of story we've seen a million times on a million other shows. (The Wire, Unforgiven, even Agents of Shield). That said, Quinn trying to get out of the CIA and failing was one of the highlights from last season, so it could be decent.
Similarly, the pupil being on the outs with the mentor is a standard-issue television drama storyline (see also: Mad Men, Parks & Rec, etc.) but Saul and Carrie's relationship is probably the most significant on the show, so there should be meat on the bone there at least.
Then you have Quinn, who seems to be a disheartened robot now, and his possibly coming back to life emotionally, due to inevitably running into Carrie again, is one that intrigues me. The hacktivist guy could be a cheap "ripped from the headlines" type of storyline, but again, I find it promising and in line with the show exploring perspectives of folks on the sidelines who get sucked into the world of the CIA. The document-leaking woman, however, sounds like a tiresome stereotype, and her role thus far seems to be as a token foil for Carrie from the "fight the power" contingent. All-in-all it's a mixed bag that could go either way.
That said, the show is still impeccably shot and scored, and generally very well-acted. I [particularly appreciated the composition of the shots where Carrie was at the CIA that showed her behind bars or confined in the frame that helped to convey what the CIA signified to her and how she felt sitting there. The production quality and high-caliber acting are always going to help elevate this show over its occasionally baffling plot and character decisions. We'll see if it's enough.