User Reviews

High quality storyline. Superb acting.

The show is so good when they're out in the field. Hopefully there is less glorification of the Oval Office next series.

Once again the series pivots from Islamist terrorism to Russian interference in American politics, and they did a great job with it.

It is true that one of the main characters dropping out at the end of last season did suggest a bit loss, however the season was decent enough that I continue to come back to Homeland. It is pretty impressive in a couple of ways. Firstly it is good to be reminded how the show started - a bit of a gimmick in the narrative perhaps, and a main character with limited stuff you could do with him. It used this and moved past this well. It is also impressive that Carrie's mental challenges did not get old. At times it does feel like it is looking for a reason to be on, but mostly it produces good television.

This is the case with the seventh season; in that it is good television, albeit not appointment television (a phrase that reveals my age a bit). The timely nature of it adds some value to the plotting; a president on the defensive, a foreign power trying to influence and undermine, an increasing political polarization etc. The show has always felt like it is managing to be a small step ahead of headlines and it does it again here. With this as the base, it turns in a fairly decent plot which mostly works. Some threads feel like tidying up from previous seasons, but mostly it fits together and moves forward as a whole. The ending of the season is a bit muted but it works.

The thing that this season does better is to blend in Carrie as a person. In the past the show has done this badly (like the sudden change of pace at the end of S4) or integrated it into the plot as a plot device. In this case though it feels like it stands on its own, and merges into the season rather than feeling like the season happens to this aspect of her life. This makes Carrie a difficult character again this season, but this is part of her appeal and Danes works that well.

All told, it is another solid season which holds together well; although truth be told I'm fine with the idea that S8 is the chance to bring it all to a close.

The acting is top notch across the boards. Claire Daines is outstanding in many of this season's episodes. The writing is top notch. Various plot surprises come into play, especially in the last two episodes. If you have followed Homeland all along I predict you will find this season very satisfying. It was for me.

Over the run of the series they've stretched Carie's bipolar disorder from reality, but they completely broke any bond to the truth in this episode and thereby destroying millions of people with mental illness.If Carie had bipolar and went the months they talk about without her medication, she would not go crazy.Bipolar is not schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders where going without medication would have such an effect.It's a shame that such an otherwise great episode that brings what today's politics are and can anything ever be done to bring our country together be soiled for political drama.

Apt ending to a season that followed a different scenario from the usual Middle-Eastern terrorist menace. Started with an unemployed and stressed Carrie, trying to investigate a US internal crises and ended with a full-fledged international conspiracy and the much-maligned President showing a softer side.

Definitely more enjoyable than the previous season. Carrie's issues were not overplayed, but are still present to add some suspence about the next and final season.

For years it was back to back excitement and drama, but now it seems to just throw anything in the story to fill up the hour.

I am hoping it gets better. This was my favorite show but now I am getting worried it might crash and burn.

The last two episodes (particularly the final one) was so full of holes that they negated all the excitement and tension of what went before. So disappointing.

No time to waste explaining all the stupidity done here.

Having been a fan of previous series; (for their credibility of story and action; as well as the portrayal of Americans as not always being ultra-good): This series spiraled out of control from early on. The lack of credible actions toward the end of the series is a major problem for the quality of the overall programme. Some of the scenes, events and outcomes were frankly ludicrous and unbelievable. By the end the star-spangled rhetoric was nauseating. I don't blame the directors or actors; they maintained their quality of performance throughout. I blame the writers. They ruined this. A real shame. The writers should be ashamed.

Pretty good serie overall, but this lame Moscow scenes filmed in Budapest are silly...