Willkommen to Berlin, where 'Homeland' has hit the reset button once again.

by Shirley Li • @shirklesxp
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“I’m not atoning. I’m just trying to do good work.” —Carrie Mathison

Over four seasons, Homeland’s major players have always told themselves they were doing “good work,” despite the trail of bodies left in their wake from D.C. to Islamabad. And the drama, for better অথবা worse, has done the same for its protagonist, careening (Carrie-ning?) between untenable highs and ludicrous lows, all in the service of the morally complex yet downright sloppy Carrie Mathison. We’ve seen...

Episode 02 | Aired Oct 7, 2012

Carrie's contact launches the CIA on a high risk mission to take out Abu Nazir and puts Brody in a perilous position
By Adam B. Vary

Normally, I'm accustomed to picking my jaw up from the floor at the end of a show's season, not after its সেকেন্ড episode. But the final মিনিট of Sunday night's Homeland broke open the season in such a shattering, brilliant way that hours later my mind's still aquiver with the wild possibilities that could unfold in the coming weeks. After a blown mission to assassinate Abu Nazir that almost resulted in Carrie's head getting shot off...