Third-episode verdict: Homeland

17 October 2011 Rob Buckley TV reviews, US TV Post a comment
The CarusometerA Carusometer rating of 1

In the US: Sundays, 10pm, Showtime
In the UK: Acquired by Channel 4

Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. The first, no-reservations drama recommendation for the fall 2011 season is Homeland. I’ve not much to add to my review of the first episode, except to say that the next two episodes do answer all our worries and in some ways are better than the first episode. It’s also acquired a nightmarish new title sequence that beats even American Horror Story‘s, despite that’s show homage to Se7en.

Just go watch it – you won’t regret it.

PS Interesting to note there are two secret Brits in this show: Damian Lewis and David Harewood.

PPS Is it just me or Showtime now better than HBO as a network?

Carusometer rating: 1
Rob’s prediction: Will last a season. Where they’ll go to after that, I don’t know, but it deserves to run and run based on this

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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