Radio Times: Review by:; David Butcher

If you had been held hostage for eight years in Iraq, you might hope for a little more support and counselling than US Marine Sergeant Brody gets. All that torment in the name of his country and his reward is a house full of secret surveillance kit and the press camped on his doorstep.

Damian Lewis does superbly as Brody, conveying the sense of a man who is tortured by flashbacks, but also rigidly in control. The trouble is, Brody is now a propaganda tool, and the pressure builds for him to play the hero publicly – even as rogue CIA analyst Carrie (Claire Danes) looks for evidence that he was “turned” by his captors.

It’s a quiet, crafty episode with the characters fleshing out nicely and a couple of softly delivered shocks. One involves auditions for a Saudi prince’s harem; the other something our US Marine will need to keep very quiet indeed.

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2/12. Brody struggles to live a normal life at home with his wife and family, suffering hallucinations and post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by his eight years in al-Qaeda captivity. But while Estes tries to get the hero soldier in front of the cameras to remind everyone of the conflict, Carrie remains convinced he is not telling the truth about his ordeal and is given permission to keep his house under constant surveillance. Thriller, starring Claire Danes, Damian Lewis and David Harewood.