Homeland (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Homeland |
| Original title | Homeland |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2011-2020 |
| Production company |
Fox 21 |
| length | 48-66 minutes |
| Episodes | 96 in 8 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Political thriller , spy thriller , psychological thriller |
| idea |
Howard Gordon , Alex Gansa |
| music | Sean Callery |
| First broadcast | October 2, 2011 (USA) on Showtime |
| German-language first broadcast |
February 3, 2013 on Sat.1 |
| occupation | |
Homeland is an American television series broadcast from 2011 to 2020 , which contains elements of the psycho and agent thriller and consists of eight twelve-part seasons. Its creators include Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa , who adapted the Israeli series Hatufim - In the Hand of the Enemy for it . Before that, they played a key role in the thematically similar thriller series 24 . The series title alludes to the Department of Homeland Security created in 2001 .
The protagonist of the series is the secret agent Carrie Mathison, who lives with a bipolar disorder and who initially works for the CIA foreign intelligence service and who is involved in global missions to fight terrorism. The themes of the series include Islamist terrorism , sleeper cells , drone attacks and information wars . Critics have described the main character's confrontation with international terror as a parable of the situation in US society after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 .
The reviews for the first two seasons were mostly positive, often enthusiastic. Alex Gansa as the showrunner was credited with responding to negative criticism with the sixth season, according to which previous seasons were characterized by Islamophobia and racism . While the series in the USA is one of the most successful of its station, the pay-TV channel Showtime , it became increasingly a failure at the German station group ProSiebenSat.1 Media . The series received numerous awards , including Primetime Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards , including in the category of Best Drama Series . The episodes of the fifth season were filmed in and around Berlin. Homeland is the first series in the history of US television for which an entire season was shot in Germany.
Opening credits
The approximately one and a half minute opening credits are a collage of jump cuts , archive material and overlapping images, shots and sounds. It contains distinctive image and sound sequences from reality, but also from the episodes. The sequences in the opening credits of the first three seasons include terror warnings from the media and high-ranking US politicians, from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama , as well as images of the collapse of the World Trade Center as a result of the September 11th terrorist attacks 2001 . The opening credits tell the background story of the main character Carrie Mathison as a kind of quick dream and makes it clear with a quote from her that although she failed to prevent those terrorist attacks, something like this should not be allowed to repeat itself:
“I'm just trying to make sure we don't get hit again… I missed something once and can't… won't let it happen again.”
"I'm just trying to make sure we don't get hit again ... I missed something once and I can ... won't let it happen again."
After the third season, the opening credits are varied seasonally, each adapted to the themes of the season in question, borrowed from reality. For example, in the fourth season these are the use of US drones over Pakistan or Afghanistan and in the fifth season the threat posed by the Islamic State .
The opening credits also refer to the Greek myth of the Minotaur in the Labyrinth, which appears here as a maze in which Carrie and - in the first three seasons - her target Nicholas Brody are. Carrie is also shown in the maze as a child wearing the mask of the Minotaur. There are different interpretations of the meaning of this reference in the literature. For example, the labyrinth can be understood as a representation of Carrie's excited mind, which sometimes plays painful tricks on her because of her bipolar disorder . Another reviewer interpreted the mask as a symbol of Carrie's double-faced character, who is superficially a fearless adult, but who obviously hides a vulnerable child. Carrie was abandoned by her mother and raised by a father who, like her, suffered from bipolar disorder.
content
overview
Largely told from the point of view of the initial CIA agent Carrie Mathison and other American protagonists, the series is about efforts to protect the United States from terrorist attacks and from the political influence of foreign powers. Central recurring elements of the plot are the investigation to uncover conspiracies against the USA and to expose and stop enemy agents. This also includes smuggling agents into hostile organizations, combined with corresponding covert investigations and surveillance activities in private areas of life. It is about conflicts between the CIA and intelligence services of other states, including the Israeli Mossad , the German BND , the Pakistani ISI and the Russian services SWR and GRU . Some people from these services, some from US organizations, and some from Islamist associations such as al-Qaeda , the Taliban or the Islamic State turn out to be enemies .
characters
Carrie Mathison, between the ages of 30 and 40 at the beginning of the series, works for the first four seasons as an agent for the CIA, with interruptions. In the first season it becomes clear that the high standards she has of herself and her work, and her anger at not having foreseen or preventing the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , are responsible for the fact that she differs from her colleagues , Has estranged friends and family members. At the end of the fourth season she turns away from the CIA and works from then on for various, including non-profit organizations, and appears increasingly as a private person, although she also pursues CIA interests in some cases. She has known since she was 22 that she had bipolar disorder . In order to contain or suppress the symptoms of this disease, she takes drugs, which up to the seventh season mainly include clozapine . She hides her illness from her superiors, only close confidants know or learn about it. She gets the medication from her sister Maggie, a doctor. Sometimes it happens that professional opponents find out about her illness and withhold important medication from her in order to harm her. Carrie then suffers alternately from manic and depressive episodes, which severely hinder her in her work.
If the situation seems to require it, Carrie also allows target persons to develop intimate relationships with them in order to spy on, monitor or gain trust, or she enforces such relationships herself. Examples of this are Carrie's relationships with a Pakistani student in the fourth season and a suspected Russian agent in the seventh season. Another example is her relationship with Nicholas Brody in the first three seasons, from which the daughter Franny emerges, who is born in the break between the third and fourth seasons. As a result, Carrie struggles to reconcile her job and illness with caring for her daughter. Because of this, she often leaves the child with Maggie.
Saul Berenson is the head of the CIA's Middle East department at the beginning of the series . He's a mentor, friend, and initially manager of Carrie, whom he recruited for the CIA when she was a student. At the beginning of the third season he heads the CIA, towards the end of the season he leaves it and appears in the fourth season as a private advisor to the US government on Middle Eastern affairs. With the beginning of the fifth season he is working again for the CIA, now as head of the department for European affairs. In the seventh season, he holds the position of National Security Advisor of the United States. His private life also suffers from his work, so that his marriage falls apart. He and Carrie are the only characters who appear in all of the episodes.
Nicholas Brody is a US Marine sergeant who was captured by Iraqi forces eight years before the series began and then sold to al-Qaeda commander Abu Nazir. In his custody he was tortured for years and psychologically influenced in the spirit of Nazir. He suffered trauma as a result of a US-ordered drone attack that killed a boy friend and dozens of other people while in captivity. It is responsible for his inner transformation into an assassin who wants to take revenge on the USA with an attack for the pain suffered. He returns there and back to his family with post- traumatic stress disorder , which includes his wife Jessica and teenage children Dana and Chris. In the third season he dies. His extramarital relationship with Carrie results in his daughter Franny, who is not born until after his death.
Dar Adal is also a high-ranking CIA employee who has long known Saul Berenson, who specializes in covert operations and who often pursues different professional strategies than Saul and Carrie.
Peter Quinn is a CIA secret agent and professional killer who is part of the plot from seasons two through six and often protects Carrie. Raised as an orphan in a foster family, he was recruited by the CIA as a teenager and trained as an SAD soldier - under the guidance of Dar Adal . Because of these experiences, too, he has difficulty distinguishing between personal beliefs and professional duties. Seriously injured by poison gas in the fifth season , he falls into a coma. As a result, he is in the sixth season physically and mentally ailing. At the end of the season, he selflessly rescues the designated US President from death, but is shot himself in the process.
action
At the beginning of the first season , the prisoner of war US marine Nicholas Brody , who has been missing in Iraq since 2003 and is now believed dead, is freed by a US special unit and received as a hero in the US. Carrie receives a tip from an informant that an American in captivity has been "turned around" - that is, convinced of the ideology and intentions of the hostile side - and assumes that Nicholas is this man, which is why she - despite the lack of authorization - also electronically monitored in his home. The season revolves around the question of whether Nicholas is actually a " sleeper " who works for the al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Nazir, or a hero, and in this context Carrie's credibility, who is the only one convinced of the former. In flashbacks it becomes clear that Nicholas initially did not tell the whole truth about the time he was imprisoned. For example, the viewer learns that, contrary to previous claims, Nicholas knows Nazir and has become a devout Muslim . The death of Nazir's son and other children in a misguided drone attack ordered by the US Vice President Walden becomes an occasion for Nazir to have Nicholas in America plan a suicide attack on Walden, which, however, ultimately fails. Another storyline is about Nicholas' relationship with his wife, who fell in love with one of his best friends while he was away.
The second season takes place six months after the first one ends. Carrie continues the hunt for the terrorist leader Abu Nazir with Saul's help. Nicholas is now a congressman whom the US presidential candidate Walden would like to win as a candidate for the future vice presidency. While he is secretly in the service of Nazir and al-Qaeda, Carrie and Saul, with Peter's help, recruit him as a double agent to help spy on Nazir and prevent a planned terrorist attack. Living with her husband is becoming increasingly difficult for Jessica; but she struggles to keep her family life intact. Carrie prevents Dana from reporting a traffic accident caused by Walden's son to Walden in order not to endanger the proximity of Nicholas to Walden, which is so important to Nazir. Nazir threatens to kill Carrie and uses this leverage to force Nicholas to kill Walden. After the murder, a CIA SWAT team can kill Nazir. Saul is in conflict with CIA director Estes, who assigns Quinn to kill Nicholas. Al-Qaeda carried out a car bomb attack on the participants of the memorial service for Walden, in which Estes and hundreds of other people died, and for which the terrorist organization Nicholas publicly blames. Thereupon he escapes to Canada with the help of Carrie, with whom he has since started a sexual relationship.
At the beginning of the third season , Carrie carries out a secret operation with Saul's help, in the course of which she is exposed in front of the Senate committee and then admitted to a psychiatric clinic to lure the highly decorated Iranian intelligence officer Majid Javadi. He should be lured to the USA so that he can be sent back to Iran as a double agent . Meanwhile, Carrie has helped Nicholas escape to Venezuela to avoid being prosecuted for the Langley bombing. He is recovering from a gunshot wound in the “ Tower of David ” high-rise in Caracas . Saul later travels to Caracas with the $ 10 million bounty placed on Brody to bring Nicholas back. He wants to smuggle Nicholas into Iran to kill the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard , Akbari, so that Javadi can take his position. So that Javadi's chances of promotion are increased and his situation in Iran is not endangered, the new CIA director Andrew Lockhart has the escape plan previously devised by Saul and Carrie lifted on the direct orders of the US President. He also allows Nicholas to be killed for Akbari's murder. Carrie, meanwhile pregnant by Nicholas, watches on the spot as he is publicly hanged.
In the fourth season , whose main location is Islamabad , the CIA tries to arrest the terrorist, Taliban leader and US enemy Haissam Haqqani, while Carrie tries to find out the reason for the murder of the previous CIA station manager. With Quinn's help, she discovers that leading members of the Pakistani intelligence service ISI are cooperating with Haqqani and are also using information that the corrupt husband of the US ambassador has provided them with. Haqqani has Saul kidnapped and extorted the release of five Taliban from US captivity in exchange for his release. In addition, with the help of ISI, he infiltrates the US embassy in Islamabad, killing a number of people, and purposefully seizes a list of informants from the CIA under the Taliban. The event causes the US President to break off diplomatic relations with Pakistan. Saul's role in the CIA's next deal with Haqqani, in which he was removed from the CIA's death list for his pledge to no longer protect terrorists in Afghanistan, weighs Carrie's relationship with Saul so much that she turns her back on him.
The fifth season takes place almost two years after the fourth season and mainly in Berlin , where Carrie now works for a philanthropic foundation. When breaking into the CIA server, Berlin hackers inadvertently obtained secret documents with which Carrie would be the only one able to expose a Russian agent in the CIA service, and passed them on to the press. In order to thwart the exposure, the Russian secret service has its agent Carrie's name put on a CIA death list, which Saul has Quinn processed. Quinn, however, spares Carrie and helps her fake her death. Carrie discovers that the agent is the current Berlin CIA station chief. She first tries to pass her betrayal on to her previous lover Saul - which leads to complications between the CIA and the Mossad - and is finally shot by the CIA. Meanwhile, Quinn happens to meet a group of jihadists whom he infiltrates in order to spy on them. The jihadists use him as a test person for the effects of the poison gas sarin , with which they want to carry out an attack in Berlin. With the attack threat, they are demanding that the Islamic State be officially recognized as a state. Carrie is finally able to thwart the release of the gas in Berlin Central Station , Quinn falls into a coma as a result of the poisoning.
The sixth season takes place a few months after the fifth season and in the time between the US presidential election and the inauguration of President-elect Elizabeth Keane. The main venue is New York City , where Carrie now works for a non-profit organization that helps Muslim citizens legal. Essentially, it is about a conspiracy of the US security apparatus against Keane, devised for political reasons by the high-ranking CIA employee Dar Adal, in which one of Carrie's clients is also blamed for a bomb attack in Manhattan . The conspiracy also includes Dar Adal's influence on an Iranian major general who, in Dar's sense, denies to Keane that Iran complies with the international nuclear agreement. Quinn has now woken up from the coma. Although he's not completely restored physically and mentally, he helps Carrie uncover Dar's involvement in the bombing. Dar realizes that the conspiracy gets out of hand when a US general involved in it plans an assassination attempt on Keane. Quinn thwarts Keane's killing, but is shot himself in the process. In addition to Dar, people who are innocent from Carrie's point of view also go to prison, including Saul.
The seventh season takes place mainly in Carrie's new residence Washington, DC and initially revolves around the search for the client for the murder of the US general who was responsible for the assassination attempt on President Keane at the end of the previous season. As the season progresses, it becomes clear that the contract killing was only part of a plan by Russian agents to overthrow the Keane government. The plan also includes attempts to influence the opinion of citizens through the targeted publication of fake news . As a result, for example - also because of the involvement of an ultra-conservative, provocative web video producer - several FBI agents and civilians died in Virginia. Carrie can uncover the Russian plan with Saul and other helpers. So she thwarted the permanent impeachment of Keanes after the 25th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States , but she got into Russian captivity for several months. Nonetheless, Keane resigns from office as she finds herself unable to unite the divided country. Another storyline is about Carrie's private situation. Since her work is so demanding that she can no longer take care of her daughter properly, she reluctantly hands over custody to her sister. In the end, Carrie, who was denied psychotropic drugs after seven months in Russian imprisonment , is psychotically exchanged for four Russian secret agents.
The eighth season takes place in Afghanistan and closes the series.
Emergence
Idea and staff
The Israeli television series Hatufim - In the hands of the enemy appeared, from 2010 to 2012 in two 12-part seasons, tells of three Israeli soldiers after her abduction 17 years in Palestinian held captive and two of which with a post-traumatic stress disorder after Return home. After the series attracted a lot of attention when it first appeared in March 2010, Howard Gordon , executive producer and showrunner of US television series 24 , got his employer, 20th Century Fox Television , to acquire the rights to Hatufim and that series that same month to adapt for your own television series. Together with his 24 colleagues, screenwriter Alex Gansa , and Hatufim creator Gideon Raff , Gordon wrote the script for the pilot episode of a potential psychological thriller television series called Homeland . Television producer David Nevins approved the production of the pilot episode for Fox 21 , the cable television division of 20th Century Fox Television, in 2010 . The pilot episode was replaced by a new pilot episode after filming and the decision to produce a 12-part first season, in which the role of Jessica Brody was cast with a different actress and the names of the two main characters Carrie Anderson and Scott Brody in Carrie Mathison and Nicholas Brody respectively.
The first broadcast on the cable and pay TV channel Showtime was due to begin in October 2011. In a previous press interview with Newsweek in August 2011, almost four months after the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden by US soldiers, Gansa separated the new series from 24 in terms of its characteristics . In it, he said that 24 was an action thriller about America's “muscular” response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , while Homeland was to be understood as a “psychological” answer to the question of where the country would be after bin Laden's death.
The function of the show runner, ie the person primarily responsible for creativity, is performed at Homeland Gansa. In putting together their team of screenwriters for at least the first season, Gordon and Gansa made it a priority to hire writers with specific expertise that would fit the planned story. The four signed authors Henry Bromell , Chip Johannessen , Alex Cary and Meredith Stiehm all had their own experience as showrunners. Johannessen brought in experience as a showrunner at Dexter and as a writer also at 24 and was hired especially because of his prior knowledge of suspenseful action thriller plots. Novelist Bromell, son of a former CIA station chief from Cairo , Amman and Tehran , once directed the crime series Homicide . Former British infantry officer Alex Cary was previously responsible for the television series Lie to Me and at Homeland was responsible for testing Nicholas Brody's behavior as a soldier for realism. Stiehm, the only woman on the team and creator of the long-running crime series Cold Case - No Victim Is Ever Forgotten , was responsible for designing the main character Carrie Mathison. Her experience with her sister, who also suffers from bipolar disorder, also helped her.
Conception
In press interviews, Gansa and Gordon named some of the works that would have had an influence on the conception of Homeland . These include fictional works such as the German feature film The Lives of Others (2006), the US thriller Das Fenster zum Hof (1954), The Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Witness to a Conspiracy (1974), Graham Greene's novel Das Herz of all things (1948) and the novels by John le Carré . They also cited the non-fiction books CIA: The Whole Story (2007, by Tim Weiner ) and My Restless Soul by US psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison , in which the author describes her personal handling of bipolar disorder, as the basis for the series .
Howard Gordon said the character Carrie Mathison was based on Fox Mulder, a fictional investigator on the TV series he co-invented, The X-Files, The FBI's Scary Cases , and Henny Penny . This is the original title of a European folk tale , which has been filmed several times, also under the title Chicken Little , whose title character is a chicken who foresees the imminent end of the world and causes panic. Gordon described the character Saul Berenson as a combination of the le Carré characters George Smiley and Günther Bachmann, who appears in the novel Marionettes . The characters from Graham Greene's works were also borrowed from the character Saul Berenson.
The scriptwriters originally planned to let the character Nicholas Brody die in the first season, but refrained from doing so at the request of the broadcaster Showtime . For the second season they again planned the death of the character, but failed a second time due to resistance from Showtime. After all, the character was only allowed to die in the final episode of the third season. That episode also marked Meredith Stiehm's return to the scriptwriting and producer team. She had left the baton after the second season to serve as a showrunner on the series The Bridge - America . As a possible reason that Stiehm was hired again, the press cited the protests of fans against the development of the series.
Bromell was part of the scriptwriting and producing team until his unexpected death in March 2013, when the third season was created.
As a rule, it was part of the production process of the seasons that producers and actors met with representatives of the US secret services for about a week a year in Washington, DC and were informed about their current work from them. It was about topics like Russian agents or cybersecurity . During one of these weeks in 2013, Mandy Patinkin , who was the CIA director in the upcoming third season , met the real incumbent, John O. Brennan . In preparation for the sixth season in particular, the scriptwriting team also took advice from Michael V. Hayden , a former director of the National Security Agency .
For the announcement of the announcement that with Elizabeth Marvel a woman will play the role of President-Elect in the sixth season, the creators of the series deliberately chose July 27, 2016, because the day before Hillary Clinton was nominated by the Democratic Party as a candidate for the US 2016 presidential election and because they assumed Clinton's election victory. The following month, Gansa emphasized that the character portrayed by Marvel had characteristics of Hillary Clinton as well as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump . In press interviews after the election, which took place on November 8, 2016, Gansa regretted Trump's victory as potentially problematic for the series' credibility and that it had influenced the storyline of the season. In addition, according to Gansa in 2018, Trump's election victory was decisive for the decisions to let the seventh season play in Washington, DC , to create it as a continuation of the sixth season and to forego the original plan, the seasons 7 and 8 as a multi-season series conclusion to conceive.
The sixth season, which tells of the time between the US presidential election and the inauguration of the new US president , started over three months later than when the previous seasons started in late September or early October. With this start date, planned months in advance, a few days before the inauguration of the real President-Elect Donald Trump in January 2017, the intention was to embed the fictional plot in reality.
Filming
In preparation for the shooting of the pilot episode, the focus was on the thrillers The Three Days of the Condor and The Dialogue from the 1970s. As the “most important touchstone” and orientation point for the episode, the cameraman Christopher Manley , who was appointed for this, highlighted the 2007 film Michael Clayton and its “naturalistic and subtle photography”.
One of the concerns of the director and producer Michael Cuesta was to make the series look realistic. At his instigation, the use of the hand-held camera for filming the episodes was increased in the course of the first season . This should ensure that the event is described directly from the perspective of a character and that their emotions are emphasized. In this context, Cuesta spoke in interviews of a more documentary than action-oriented camera work and his intention to make the series not an action thriller , but a psychological piece. Nelson Cragg , employed as cameraman for the first two seasons , emphasized that the series had become "very improvisational" under the influence of Cuesta and director Clark Johnson .
Lesli Linka Glatter staged an episode as a guest director in the second season, before she was part of the permanent directing team from the third season. Until the final season, she directed 23 episodes, more often than any other person.
Filming locations and locations
| Season | Location | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1-3 | Langley (Virginia) | Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 4th | Pakistan | South Africa |
| 5 | Berlin | Potsdam , Berlin |
| 6th | New York City | New York City |
| 7th | Washington, DC | Virginia |
| 8th | Afghanistan | Morocco |
When the city of Charlotte was chosen as the location for the first three seasons, tax incentives for the producers were one of the decisive factors. Empty tobacco factories and warehouses were used there for the recordings.
A few times it was filmed in Israel : for the pilot episode, for example, an Arab region in the country was used as the setting for Baghdad . The fact that the first two episodes of the second season could also be filmed in the country was a result of the commitment of Gideon Raff, the Hatufim creator. Scenes were shot in for those episodes Haifa and Tel Aviv , in Beirut play, in cooperation with the Hatufim - bar . Israel was also planned as a location for the third season. However, as the security situation worsened as a result of the Syria conflict , filming was moved to Morocco .
The fourth season was shot in Cape Town , South Africa , while the stories mainly take place in the Pakistani capital Islamabad .
The fifth season was shot mainly in the Potsdam film studio Babelsberg and in Berlin and the surrounding area. According to a newspaper article, the producers decided against their Croatian competitor Zagreb when they chose the region . This made Homeland the first US television series ever to have an entire season filmed in Germany. The shooting lasted from June to November 2015 and took place at around 100 locations in Berlin and Brandenburg , including at Berlin Brandenburg Airport and in Berlin at the main train station , at the Rotes Rathaus and on Kurfürstendamm . The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg subsidized the production of the season, which was more expensive than the previous four with total costs of over 40 million euros, with one million euros. German politicians, including Berlin's Mayor Michael Müller , emphasized the economic importance of the filming for the region during their visits to the staff in Babelsberg. German media accompanied the shooting with increased reporting compared to the other seasons.
Cast and dubbing
The main cast consists mainly of US actors, including Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin . For example with Damian Lewis and Rupert Friend it also contains some British people in leading roles. Actors from Germany also took part in the fifth season in particular, with Sebastian Koch and Alexander Fehling in the main roles and Nina Hoss and Martin Wuttke in supporting roles . The role of Jessica Brody was in the original, unreleased pilot episode with the Scottish Laura Fraser . Then Fraser was replaced by the Brazilian Morena Baccarin .
The German dubbed version was produced by Cinephon Filmproduktions GmbH in Berlin. Responsible for dialogue book and dialogue director was Stephan Hoffmann .
Claire Danes (2007), starring as Carrie Mathison
Mandy Patinkin (2008), cast member of Saul Berenson
Damian Lewis (2015), cast member of Nicholas Brody
Rupert Friend (2013), starring as Peter Quinn
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The table lists the actors, their role names, their affiliation with the main cast (●) or with the secondary and guest actors (•) per season, the number of episodes with appearances and the German voice actors .
Television broadcast
United States
| Season | Period | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oct 2, 2011 - Dec 18, 2011 | 1.25 million |
| 2 | Sep 30 2012 - Dec 16, 2012 | 1.92 million |
| 3 | 29 Sep 2013 - Dec 15, 2013 | 1.95 million |
| 4th | Oct 5, 2014 - Dec 21, 2014 | 1.65 million |
| 5 | Oct 4, 2015 - Dec 20, 2015 | 1.53 million |
| 6th | Jan 15, 2017 - Apr 9, 2017 | 1.28 million |
| 7th | Feb. 11, 2018 - Apr. 29, 2018 | 1.23 million |
| 8th | Feb 9, 2020 - Apr 26, 2020 | 0.83 million |
The premiere of the first episode took place on October 2, 2011 on the main evening program of the pay TV and cable channel Showtime . It reached 1.1 million viewers and booked the best series start on Showtime since the series Dexter in 2006. The first season achieved an average reach of 1.25 million viewers.
The average reach of the first TV broadcasts of the first seven seasons was always between one and two million, with the second and third seasons having the highest reach with almost two million viewers. Homeland was often Showtime's most viewer drama series , even in its seventh season. Homeland's status as the highest rated new series represented a significant artistic and commercial success for Showtime in its early years, partly because it helped end HBO's long-standing dominance in high-quality television productions.
Up to the fifth season, Showtime always began airing in late September or early October each year. Also up to that season, Showtime announced the extension of the series by a subsequent season a few weeks after the start of the broadcast of the currently broadcast season. In contrast, the station announced the production of seasons 7 and 8 before the start of the sixth season, in August 2016. Leading actress Claire Danes announced the conclusion of the series after the eighth season in April 2018 and Showtime confirmed in August of the same year. Showtime had initially announced June 2019 as the release date for the eighth season, but then postponed it to February 9, 2020 due to production.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland
In March 2012 it was announced that ProSiebenSat.1 Media had secured the German broadcasting rights for the series. The station group did not begin until almost a year later, on February 3, 2013, with the German-language premiere and advertised Homeland as “the best series in the world”. It took place on the broadcaster Sat.1 , which showed the first three seasons in a weekly rhythm, partly in double episodes, on Sundays from 10:15 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. respectively. At first, Sat.1 was extremely satisfied with the ratings. The first season reached an average of almost two million viewers and - in the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49 year olds - in some cases market shares of more than 18 percent, which were above the station's average. In the following two seasons, the ratings for Homeland on Sat.1 declined; the third season, for example, achieved an average reach of just under a million viewers. For this reason, the first broadcast of the fourth season was transferred to the smaller broadcaster Kabel Eins , which showed it on four Friday evenings in July 2015, divided into three episodes each. However, the quotas there were also low and falling, with the second block of three, for example, the market share in the target group was only three percent.
In the hope of greater audience interest because of Berlin as the main location, the first broadcast of the fifth season took over again Sat.1. It was seen in double episodes on Sundays around 11:05 p.m. in spring 2016. The station's hopes were not fulfilled, however, because with market shares of 5 or 4 percent in some cases (in the group of 2 and over and 14-49 year olds), the season was a failure. Seasons 6 and 7 were broadcast by the ProSiebenSat.1 Media pay-TV channel Sat.1 emotions on Fridays in the summer months of 2017 and 2018. Reasons for the repeated channel change and audience ratings for these seasons have not been recorded.
| Season | Period | Channel | Time slot | the reach -wide |
Market share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feb 3, 2013 - Apr 21, 2013 | Sat 1 | Sundays 23:15 | 1.76 million | 11.6% |
| 2 | 29 Sep 2013 - Nov 3, 2013 | Sat 1 | Sundays 10:15 p.m. (2 ep. Each) | 1.23 million | 6.9% |
| 3 | 9 Mar 2014 - June 1, 2014 | Sat 1 | Sundays 23:15 | 0.98 million | 7.1% |
| 4th | July 10, 2015 - July 31, 2015 | Cable one | Fridays (3 ep. Each) 8:15 p.m. (until July 17th), 10:15 p.m. (from July 24th) |
approx. 0.40 million | ? |
| 5 | Apr 3, 2016 - May 8, 2016 | Sat 1 | Sundays 23:05 (2 ep. Each) | 0.64 million | 5.6% |
| 6th | July 7, 2017 - August 11, 2017 | Sat.1 emotions | Fridays approx. 22:00 (2 ep. Each) | ? | ? |
| 7th | June 15, 2018 - July 20, 2018 | Sat.1 emotions | Fridays 21:40 (2 ep. Each) | ? | ? |
The voluntary self-regulation of the film industry released the Homeland episodes partly for viewers aged 12 and over, and partly for those aged 16 and over.
Only the first two seasons could be seen on Swiss and Austrian channels, always in the late evening and night programs. The Swiss public broadcaster SRF Zwei broadcast the episodes with an offset of one day to a few weeks after the Sat.1 broadcast and showed at least the second season in German-English two-channel sound . The Austrian private broadcaster Puls 4 , also belonging to ProSieben Sat.1 Media AG, broadcast the seasons about six months later than Sat.1. Reasons why the series was no longer broadcast on Austrian and Swiss channels after the second season are not known.
| Season | Switzerland ( SRF two ) | Austria ( pulse 4 ) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feb 7, 2013 - Apr 25, 2013 | Aug 7, 2013 - Aug 11, 2013 |
| 2 | Sep 30 2013 - Dec 16, 2013 | 14 Mar 2014 - Apr 5, 2014 |
Publication in other media
| Season | United States | TOP, ROOF |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 Aug 2012 | June 28, 2013 |
| 2 | Sep 10 2013 | Dec 6, 2013 |
| 3 | Sep 9 2014 | 19 Sep 2014 |
| 4th | 8 Sep 2015 | Nov 5, 2015 |
| 5 | Jan. 10, 2017 | July 14, 2016 |
| 6th | Feb 6, 2018 | Nov 9, 2017 |
| 7th | 13 Aug 2019 (DVD only) | Nov 22, 2018 |
Across platforms and including other types of television viewing, including hard drive recorders , the average range per season in the initial release period in the USA was significantly higher than the range of television broadcasting. For example, it was over six million viewers in the fourth season and about 4.9 million in the seventh season.
Before it was first broadcast in Germany in March 2012, the series was part of the program at the Großes Fernsehen festival in Cologne .
The series was also released in the German dubbed version by the video-on-demand providers and online video libraries Amazon Prime Video , iTunes and Maxdome . For the Maxdome service, which at least then also belonged to ProSiebenSat.1 Media, the 2013 series was the second most frequently accessed content .
Assessment and analysis
General criticism
| Season |
Rotten tomatoes |
Metacritic |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 92 |
| 2 | 93 | 96 |
| 3 | 80 | 77 |
| 4th | 81 | 74 |
| 5 | 88 | 76 |
| 6th | 78 | 68 |
| 7th | 80 | 65 |
| 8th | 85 | 71 |
The first two seasons received the highest approval from critics. This can also be seen in the evaluations of reviews from predominantly English-language media by the aggregators Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic with approval ratings of over 90 percent (as of January 1, 2020). The critics, including those from German-speaking countries, celebrated the series as the best new series of autumn 2011 or as the best US series at all. In relation to the first two seasons, they were particularly enthusiastic about the tension emanating from the two main characters, which was mainly due to Carrie's emotional fragility and Nicholas' mental brokenness caused by the war, but also due to their intimate relationship. The two main characters are excellently cast and embodied convincingly by the actors.
Several critics, including the then US President Barack Obama , praised the series for the fact that its characters are not simply black and white, but rather complex and complex. They stressed something similar about the story being told. In contrast to 24 , the fronts in Homeland are not so clearly divided into good agents and bad terrorists, because - as Stefan Kuzmany explained at Spiegel online - the investigators also acted “dirty” and even the chief terrorist wore “the soft facial features of a humanist who understands terror as self-defense. ”Critics cited the way in which the series tells of the time after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 as a major, positive point of criticism. While 24 embodied and even exploited the fear and paranoia of the United States at war on terrorism, Homeland's approach is more direct and universal, for example, according to the critic in the Los Angeles Times , as this is the pattern of physical, psychological and moral breakdowns caused by war. In the Schweizer Weltwoche it was praised that the series, unlike 24, was “a much more informed and self-critical view of the consequences of 9/11 without blind patriotism”.
However, the representation of the US security apparatus met with rejection. Barack Obama spoke of "over-dramatization" in this regard, the author of the British magazine Prospect found it "silly".
Hardly any critic was satisfied with the third season. Jürgen Schmieder, for example, said at Sueddeutsche.de that she had focused too much on the relationship between Carrie and Nicholas. Journalist Bill Wyman criticized The New Yorker for saying that the long, tiring storylines such as Nicholas' imprisonment and drug addiction in Venezuela and the events surrounding his daughter Dana literally led nowhere.
The following seasons received less attention from critics. Sometimes they regretted that Rupert Friend had not been able to fill the gap left by Damien Lewis in the series. There was, however, encouragement with regard to the quality of the scripts and the attractiveness of the characters (for example at Spiegel online for the fourth season) as well as with regard to the entertainment value: “Exciting, well done” was the motto of the Tagesspiegel about the fifth season.
During the sixth season, several critics complained that showrunner Alex Gansa had obviously failed to adapt the series to the era of Donald Trump , because he had "wrongly dialed" a woman as US President. Some found the assassination attempt on the elected US president by members of the national security apparatus to be unrealistic. The critic in The Atlantic magazine judged the murder conspiracy to be "shamelessly paranoid" and highlighted the contradiction in this regard to Gansa's frequent media claim that the series was rooted in reality.
Comparison with Hatufim
The character Carrie Mathison has no equivalent in Hatufim . The character Nicholas Brody, on the other hand, can be understood as a combination of the characters of the three soldiers Nimrod, Uri and Amiel from Hatufim . The first season of the Israeli series deals with the return of Nimrod and Uri from their captivity and their difficulties in adapting to new circumstances. The second season is about Amiel, believed to be dead, who defected to the enemy during his imprisonment. The plot of Homeland essentially starts at a point that Hatufim only gets to in the second season. Several elements of Hatufim are condensed in Homeland . While Hatufim focuses on the trauma of the returnees and their families and their attempts to deal with it, Homeland focuses on the investigator's life and the relationship between the world before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and its aftermath, between the United States in the west on the one hand and the eastern countries Iraq , Iran and Afghanistan on the other. While Hatufim focuses on the stability of the Israeli state, Homeland highlights the US's institutional fragility.
Response to September 11, 2001
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to uncertainty among the US population and to fear of being attacked again by terrorists. The US government then initiated counter-terrorism measures, including the PRISM surveillance program . The Homeland series is attributed to reflecting this social mood and political culture . The two main characters, Carrie Mathison and Nicholas Brody, are seen as emblematic of this reflection. The actions of both protagonists are essentially determined by earlier experiences of fear. In the case of Nicholas, it is his imprisonment of war, which has severely affected him psychologically and emotionally, and in the case of Carrie the statement she made in the opening credits that she was jointly responsible for not preventing the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and that she wanted to prevent the like in the future . According to media scholar Lars Koch in 2013, the psyches of the two characters are “symbolic condensation of the lesions in the political culture of the USA”. Carrie's fear is also expressed in her schizophrenia, her hysterical, erratic, vulnerable and psychologically unstable behavior. The fact that Carrie sees the enemy "already in their own ranks and in an American uniform" in the first season was understood as a reflection of the political. In 2013, the literary scholar Daniela Otto put it, "Carrie will be pars pro toto with her mental illness for a nation that sees terror everywhere and suspects the enemy everywhere - even beyond reason." the war on terror as a highly pathological , even paranoid phenomenon. "
Homeland , along with series such as Rubicon and Person of Interest, is part of a stream of comparatively new US television series, "which deal with traumatized individuals and an analysis of the homeland and tell of conspiracy stories, the causes, efforts and consequences of American militaristic measures" in the Attempt to reassess the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The current is separated from ideologically conservative, revenge-driven anti-terrorist thrillers like 24 and from science fiction and mystery series like Lost and Battlestar Galactica . According to Koch 2013, Homeland marks “a new use compared to the pop culture terror narratives of the last ten years [...] because the fearful acts of violence take a back seat and, in return, the emotional profile of the actors comes to the fore . "
Depiction of mentally ill people
The portrayal of mentally ill people in general and Carrie's bipolar disorder in particular has been viewed controversially. There was praise from US health institutions, among others. A representative of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, for example, praised the portrayal of people with mental illness in 2014 as characterized by “compassion, clarity and responsibility”. There was also encouragement from people with bipolar disorder. For example, one person affected by the disease commented in the Guardian in 2014 that Claire Danes' portrayal was “accurate and refreshing”, also with regard to the negative aspects of manic phases such as promiscuity and alienation from friends. She also contradicted the view that the presentation was sensationalistic. In 2013, a person affected by the illness in the US magazine GQ - Gentlemen's Quarterly was not so convinced of Danes' portrayal : If the brain misfires, it is differentiated in a way that Carrie does not convey; Carrie is then "remarkably calm".
Criticism was directed against the impression created by the series that people with bipolar disorder had a super-sense or a greater genius that only reached its maximum sharpness if they were not under the influence of medication. The British cultural scientist Rebecca Beirne, for example, took a similar view in a magazine interview in 2018: Homeland falsely portrayed mental health as being shaped by a kind of supernatural intuition aimed at terrorism or the apprehension of terrorists.
In the specialist magazine Social Semiotics, the sociologist Meron Wondemaghen assessed the presentation of Carrie Mathison in 2019 on the basis of research results obtained by framing and came to the conclusion that the series had presented the bipolar disorder in the first season in a responsible, nuanced and realistic manner and also showed that it can be managed effectively with the right medication. From the second to fifth season, however, the disease was mainly used for dramatic and sensationalist purposes and Carrie was shown as impulsive, irrational, unpredictable, unstable, dangerous and confused. This was expressed in those seasons through their daring, an unstable spirit, a lack of agency and autonomy and disturbing images of involuntary imprisonment in psychiatric facilities. Wondemaghen explicitly contradicted the statements of Carrie actress Claire Danes and Jamie Stiehm, the sister of screenwriter Meredith Stiehm who had bipolar disorder. You had previously stated in the media that bipolarity in the series is not just a gimmick , but moves close to a shiny and lively presentation and is characterized by "more respect" for the disease.
Islamophobia and Orientalism
In the course of the first broadcast, there were repeated criticisms against the series of serving Islamophobic clichés. For example, the journalist and Al-Jazeera producer Laila al-Arian sharply criticized Homeland in 2012 in Salon.com magazine as “TV's most Islamophobic show”, the “most Islamophobic television series”. It affirmed all stereotypes about Islam and Muslims, and it would be shown " ad nauseam " that no one could be trusted who was identified as Muslim by race or belief. The author Yair Rosenberg, known for his fight against Islamic anti-Semitism , also turned against the criticism in an article that appeared on The Atlantic : The series would not confirm the stereotypes or prejudices of the audience, but challenge them. It is not true that all Muslims and Arabs in the series are terrorists or have some other bad reputation, for example because the figure Danny Galvez is also a Lebanese-Muslim CIA employee who is opposing a terrorist attack.
Political scientist Joseph Massad , who teaches in New York, criticized the series in an online contribution for Al Jazeera and found its “racial structure” to be a reflection of “American and Israeli fantasies of anti-Muslim , American multiculturalism, ” such as the Jew Saul Berenson with one Indian , brown-skinned Hindu woman.
Concerned about the tourist image of Lebanon , the Lebanese tourism minister Faddy Abboud criticized the Associated Press in 2012, among other things, the depiction of Hamra Street in Beirut by the series as not being realistic. In the second episode of the second season, it is portrayed as being besieged by militias, although in reality it is a popular inner-city area with cafes and bars. The filmmaker and activist Laura Durkay reiterated the criticisms of al-Arian and Abboud in the Washington Post in 2014 and added under the heading that Homeland is the "most hypocritical television series": The series would be any manifestation of political Islam , by Arabs, Muslims and mix the whole Middle East into a monstrous, global, terrorist threat that does not exist in reality. For example, the second season implies cooperation between the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Hezbollah militia , although in reality they are in conflict with one another.
In 2014, representatives of the Pakistani state publicly complained about the portrayal of Islamabad in the fourth season, among other things as an "ugly, ignorant, terror-ridden 'hellhole".
In the production of the fifth season frame three were Graffiti Artists in Berlin commissioned a Homeland - film set by graffiti in Arabic script authentic and to have as a Lebanese refugee camp appear. The fact that the artists then criticized the series with the lettering created on house walls was only made known to the Homeland creators - through messages from viewers - when the episode in question was first broadcast, Drecksarbeit (The Tradition of Hospitality) . The graffiti means something like "Homeland is a hoax" and "Homeland is racist " and its creators used it to denounce the series as "inaccurate, undifferentiated and highly prejudiced with regard to the portrayal of Arabs, Pakistanis and Afghans", as it did in the subsequent one , said the opinion quoted by the Washington Post.
In an essay published in 2015, the American media scholar James Castonguay took the view that while the series encourages viewers to question their prejudices, it ultimately confirms these stereotypical assumptions. An example of this is the story of Nicholas Brody, whose turn to Islam is shown as a prerequisite for becoming a terrorist. The series uses the viewer's initial surprise to see a white US marine worshiping Allah by anticipating and refuting the stereotypical assumption that Nicholas' belief is indicative of a terrorist. Ultimately, Homeland is once again making clear the familiar image of the militant Muslim terrorist, reinforcing it and expanding it. Castonguay also said that Homeland offers a significantly narrower range of Muslim and Arab figures than 24 . In addition, the series problematically expands the familiar racial and national profile of the Muslim terrorist beyond a dark-skinned, Middle Eastern male Muslim and also includes African American US Marines and white American women. The ubiquity of the Muslim enemy in the series, but also the close cooperation of the Homeland staff with the CIA, contribute to an ideological work that favors the "aggressive anti-terrorism measures" of the Obama administration ; Homeland functions as a "propaganda arm" for so-called " dirty wars " led by the Obama administration .
The opening credits of the sixth season episodes include a long sentence from the poem The Revolution Will Not Be Televised , which was written by the poet and anti-racism activist Gil Scott-Heron . The opening credits also contain statements by Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald , two co-editors of the journalistic website The Intercept , which, among other things, deal with "brutality against protesters" and Muslim communities that are the focus of the CIA and FBI . The content of the opening credits prompted literary scholar Brian T. Edwards to interpret that Homeland was responding to the criticism received with the season, that it now wanted to show that it was no longer racist or that it was no longer racist, and that it was increasingly turning in the politically left-wing direction. Edwards' story in which Carrie Mathison defends Muslim Americans against stereotyping and showrunner Gansa's decision to hire Professor Ramzi Kassem as an advisor for the season after Kassem publicly opened the series because of its portrayal of Muslims served as further evidence for his interpretations had criticized. However, according to Edwards in the Los Angeles Review of Books , emphasize the season through the storyline about the "cartoon-like" Muslim villain Majid Javadi that Orientalism that they are trying to dismantle. Edwards also said in March 2017 that the development of Homeland towards an attitude that is directed against racial profiling , the series the "democratic mainstream " assign. This should be understood against the background of domestic resistance to the decree of the Trump administration from January 2017, which prohibits entry from seven majority Muslim states .
Awards
The series has been nominated for prizes over 150 times and awarded over 40 times. The awards focus on the early seasons. At the Primetime Emmy Awards, for example, around half of the total of 40 nominations and all eight awards go to the first two seasons (as of August 3, 2020). In the Best Drama Series category , which is the most important category for dramatic television series , the series won the Emmy for its first season (2012), and nominations remained for seasons 2, 4 and 5. Claire Danes , nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series for each of the first five seasons , won the Emmy for the first two seasons. Damian Lewis received - with a total of two nominations - the award for best leading actor for the first season. There were also two Emmy awards for the best screenplay in a drama series and another Emmy each for editing and casting. Was nominated five times for an Emmy Lesli Linka Glatter for Best Director , four times was nominated Mandy Patinkin as Best Supporting Actor .
At the Golden Globe Awards , which, in contrast to the Emmys, are awarded for the past calendar year, the series was successful with eight nominations with five prizes. Two of the awards are allocated to the categories Best Drama Series (2012, 2013) and - for Claire Danes - Best Actress in a Drama Series (also 2012 and 2013); Damian Lewis also received the award for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2012.
The American Film Institute included the series in its list of the best series of the year in 2011, 2012 and 2015, naming it, for example, “a taut and timely tale of homeland insecurity” (German: “a tight and contemporary narrative about the insecurity of Homeland"). The series was also honored with prizes from the directors' unions (eight nominations / one award), artistic directors (3/0), producers (3/1), actors (13/1) and screenwriters (7 / 3). Other US awards include the TV Guide Award, the People's Choice Award , the Humanitas Award , the Satellite Award , the Golden Reel Award , the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Peabody Award , which was awarded as follows:
“Combining a dense tangle of plot lines with complex characters, Homeland is a game of cat and mouse, a surprisingly compassionate psychological thriller and a Rorschach test of our post-9/11 doubts, fears and suspicions. For its tension-filled take on American life in the long wake of the war on terror, Homeland receives a Peabody award. "
“As a combination of a dense network of storylines with complex characters, Homeland is a cat-and-mouse game, a surprisingly compassionate psychological thriller and a Rorschach test of our doubts, fears and suspicions after September 11, 2001 . Homeland receives a Peabody Award for her exciting look at American life during the long aftermath of the war on terror . "
The Writers Guild of America leads Homeland in their 2013 published list of 101 bestgeschriebenen television series of all time on the 48th place.
There were also awards from other countries. The series has received awards including the Danish Robert , the Chinese Magnolia Award and the British Dagger Award .
Novels
The series has been adapted for two novels, both of which set before the television series' plot begins:
- Andrew Kaplan: Carries Jagd , Heyne Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-26922-4 (English: Carrie's Run , Harper 2013)
- Andrew Kaplan: Sauls Plan , Cross Cult 2015, ISBN 978-3-86425-427-7 (English: Saul's Game , Harper 2014)
literature
- Robert Abele: Under Suspicion - Production report on the Directors Guild of America website , 2012
- Robert Arp (Ed.): Homeland and Philosophy. For Your Minds Only. Open Court Publishing , Chicago 2014, ISBN 978-0-8126-9883-1
- German edition: The philosophy at Homeland. Moral and ethical issues in the fight against terror. Wiley-VCH Verlag , Weinheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-527-50868-6
- Pablo Echart, Pablo Castrillo: Homeland: Fear and Distrust as Key Elements of the Post-9/11 Political-Spy Thriller. In: Alberto N. García (Ed.): Emotions in Contemporary TV Series. Palgrave Macmillan , London 2016, ISBN 978-1-137-56885-4 , pp. 189-204
- Brian T. Edwards: Moving Target: Is “Homeland” Still Racist? , Los Angeles Review of Books , March 2017
- Lars Koch: Terror 3.0 - 'Homeland' and the delimitation of suspicion . In: POP. Culture & Criticism No. 3/2013, pp. 17–21
- Diane Negra, Jorie Lagerwey (ed.): Cinema Journal No. 4/2015 (54th year), pp. 126–160 (with several articles on Homeland )
- Daniela Otto: Pathologies of Terror. Homeland as a contribution to collective trauma management. In: Oliver Jahraus , Stephan Packard, Bernd Scheffer (Eds.): Medienobservationen ( ISSN 1612-7315 ) from 2013
- Susan Williams: The Unbearable Weight of Truth: Carrie in Homeland , in: Jung Journal, Culture & Psyche No. 3/2017 (11th year), pp. 26–42
- Meron Wondemaghen: Homeland and its use of bipolar disorder for sensationalist and dramatic effect. In: Social Semiotics No. 2/2019 (29th year), pp. 131–144
- Michaela Wünsch: Temporalities of Trauma in Hatufim and Homeland , in: Johanna Fassl, Caroline Wiedmer (Ed.): Intervalla: platform for intellectual exchange, Vol. 2, 2014/15: Trauma, Abstraction, and Creativity ( ISSN 2296-3413 ) , Pp. 108-122
- Anat Zanger: Between Homeland and Prisoners of War: remaking terror. In: Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies No. 5/2015 (29th year), pp. 731–742
Further:
- Pauline Blistène, Olivier Chopin: Homeland: l'ennemi, la menace et la guerre contre la terreur , in: TV / Series No. 9/2016 (French)
- Sean Higgins: The Haunting of "Homeland" , Los Angeles Review of Books , October 2012
- Matt Hurwitz: Homeland Revealed . Chronicle Books , San Francisco 2014, ISBN 978-1-4521-2840-5
- Delphine Letort: Conspiracy culture in Homeland (2011–2015) , in: Media, War & Conflict No. 2/2017 (10th year), pp. 152–167
- Greta Olson: Visual Unreliability and the Questioning of Security Measures in Homeland , in: InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture No. 25, April 3, 2017
- Louise Katherine Pears: Terrorists, Heroes and Homeland: How race and gender are negotiated to create meaning in terrorism TV (PDF; 1887 kB), Dissertation, University of Leeds 2018 ( book data )
- Alexis Pichard: Homeland: un antidote à la guerre contre le terrorisme? , in: TV / Series No. 9/2016 (French)
- Margaret Tally: The Rise of the Anti-Heroine in TV's Third Golden Age , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-1-4438-9936-9 , pp. 32-39
Web links
- Homeland in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Showtime Official Website
- Homeland atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Homeland at TheFutonCritic.com
- Homeland at Fernsehserien.de
- Videos of the opening credits of the Homeland seasons , on the TCG Studios website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Episode 12 has a different length of about 84 minutes
- ↑ a b Eric Gould: Main Titles Up Close: Showtime's “Homeland”. in: Peter B. Orlik: Media Criticism in a Digital Age. Professional and Consumer Considerations. Routledge , New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-138-91318-9 , pp. 160 f.
- ↑ Steven Shapiro: Homeland's Crisis of Middle-Class Transformation. In: Negra and Lagerwey 2015, pp. 152–158, here: p. 153
- ↑ quoted from Susan Williams: The Unbearable Weight of Truth: Carrie in Homeland , in: Jung Journal, Culture & Psyche No. 3/2017 (11th year), pp. 26–42, here: p. 31
- ↑ Susan Williams: The Unbearable Weight of Truth: Carrie in Homeland , in: Jung Journal, Culture & Psyche No. 3/2017 (11th year), pp. 26–42, here: p. 31 f.
- ↑ John V. Karavitis: Die Selbstzerstörungsoption , in: Arp 2016 (German edition), p. 60 ff., Here: p. 67
- ↑ Ben Travers: 'Homeland': An Ode to Rupert Friend's Quinn After a Divisive Finale , in: IndieWire, April 10, 2017, accessed July 30, 2019
- ↑ Nellie Andreeva: David Nevins On The Move At Showtime: Picks Up Thriller From Howard Gordon , in: Deadline.com from 19 Sep. 2019, Retrieved Nov 3, 2019
- ^ A b Morgan Jeffery: Morena Baccarin joins 'Homeland' cast , in: Digital Spy, January 6, 2011, accessed on Nov. 3, 2019
- ↑ Bryan Curtis: Homeland: Terrorism TV for the Post 9/11 World , in: Newsweek of Aug. 28, 2011, accessed on Nov. 3, 2019, original quotations: "mus-cular", "psychological"
- ^ John Jurgensen: The Making of TV's Hottest Drama , in: The Wall Street Journal , Sep. 20. 2012, accessed on Aug. 4, 2019
- ↑ a b Willa Paskin: The Creators of 'Homeland' Exorcise the Ghost of '24' , in: The New York Times Magazine of 26 Sep. 2012, Retrieved Nov 29, 2019
- ↑ Hamed Aleaziz: Interrogating the Creators of “Homeland” , in: Mother Jones , Nov. 4, 2011, accessed on Nov. 3, 2019
- ↑ Jace Lacob: 'Homeland' and 'Shameless': Television Tackles Bipolar Disorder With Realism , in: The Daily Beast of April 10, 2012, last updated on July 13, 2017, accessed on November 9, 2019
- ↑ Julie Miller: Unlike Carrie, the Homeland Writers Were Totally Ready to Give Up on Brody Last Season , in: Vanity Fair, August 14, 2013, accessed Oct. 28, 2019
- ↑ a b Meredith Blake: 'Homeland' adjusts in Season 3 after last year's explosions , in: Los Angeles Times , Sep 28. 2013, accessed Oct. 31, 2019
- ↑ Jürgen Schmieder : Chance on Survival , in: Sueddeutsche.de from December 16, 2013, accessed online from GBI-Genios on October 31, 2019
- ↑ a b c Whitney Friedlander: Homeland's World View - Production Report on Directors Guild of America website , Summer 2019, accessed Oct. 26, 2019
- ↑ Ann Oldenburg: 'Homeland' cast visits DC, meets with CIA , in: USA Today from 10 Sep. 2013, accessed Oct. 27, 2019
- ↑ a b Michael O'Connell: 'Homeland' Showrunner Talks Post-Election Adjustments and Writing the President as a Foil , in: The Hollywood Reporter, January 15, 2017, accessed Oct. 27, 2019
- ↑ Michael O'Connell, 'Homeland' Casts Female President for Season 6 , in: The Hollywood Reporter, July 27, 2016, accessed Oct. 27, 2019
- ↑ Michael O'Connell, 'Homeland' Creator Says New President is Parts Trump and Clinton, Answers Quinn Question , in: The Hollywood Reporter, Aug. 11, 2016, accessed Oct. 27, 2019
- ↑ a b Tufayel Ahmed: How 'Homeland' is Reflecting US Political Reality in Season Six , in: Newsweek , Jan. 16, 2017, accessed on Oct. 27, 2019
- ↑ Debra Birnbaum: 'Homeland' Boss on Season 7's Trump Inspiration, Alex Jones and RIP Peter Quinn , in: Variety, Feb. 5, 2018, accessed Jan. 4, 2020
- ↑ a b c d The cinematographers on the hit series Downton Abbey, The Walking Dead and Homeland discuss their strategies. In: American Cinematographer No. 3/2012, article on Homeland by Patricia Thompson, accessed as page 3 and page 4 from the magazine's website on Oct. 26, 2019, original quotations from Christopher Manley: “most important touchstone”, “naturalistic and unobtrusive ", original quote from Nelson Cragg:" very improvisational "
- ↑ a b Robert Abele: Under Suspicion - Production Report on the Directors Guild of America website , 2012, accessed Oct. 26, 2019
- ↑ Full Cast & Crew , in: IMDb , accessed on Oct. 26, 2019
- ↑ Nellie Andreeva: 'Homeland' Moves Production To Virginia For Season 7 , in: Deadline.com of July 11, 2017, accessed on August 5, 2019
- ↑ Marina Knol: Homeland Season 8: Showtime reveals the start date and shows the new trailer , in: netzwelt from August 4, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2019
- ↑ Ellie Walker-Arnott: Homeland season 3 pulls out of Israel filming due to Syria conflict , in: RadioTimes from Sep. 18. 2013, Retrieved Oct. 26, 2019
- ↑ a b Jamie Schram: Pakistani officials furious over 'Homeland' , in: New York Post , Dec. 27, 2014, accessed on Jan. 4, 2020
- ↑ a b c Joachim Huber, Björn Seeling: In the main roles: Berlin and Carrie Mathison , in: Der Tagesspiegel from July 22, 2015, accessed on November 1, 2019
- ↑ Markus Ehrenberg: Verliebt in Berlin , in: Der Tagesspiegel from April 2, 2016, p. 29, accessed online from GBI-Genios on November 1, 2019
- ↑ "Berlin plays a leading role": The fifth season "Homeland" from April 3 on SAT.1 , press release from March 31, 2016, ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland GmbH, accessed from Presseportal.de on November 1, 2019
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- ↑ a b Homeland. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on December 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Number of episodes with appearances in leading, supporting and guest roles
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- ↑ Homeland: Season Seven Ratings , in: TV Series Finale, May 1, 2018, accessed on Oct. 20, 2019
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- Erin Strecker: 'Homeland' renewed for third season , in: Entertainment Weekly from October 22, 2012
- James Hibberd: 'Homeland' renewed for fourth season , in: Entertainment Weekly , Oct. 22, 2013
- Adam Chitwood: Showtime Renews HOMELAND and THE AFFAIR for New Seasons , in: Collider.com on Nov. 10, 2014
- Michael Ausiello: Homeland, The Affair Renewed , in: TV line on Dec. 9, 2015
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