Radio Times

Review by:

David Butcher

Homeland may be perfect box-set TV: it’s impossible to watch one episode and not want to gorge on two more. Tough, we’ll have to pace ourselves. It proceeds slowly, cagily (like espionage, really), getting under our skins and making us savour the relationships.

In this episode, there are great scenes that take us deeper into those relationships. In one, CIA maverick Carrie and war hero Brody come face to face again, the air crackling with something other than suspicion. In another, Carrie shares a drink with her boss, Estes, the beefy CIA deputy director. We know they have history. We know he distrusts her. But suddenly, he’s all warmth and charm. “Did you just get diagnosed with cancer or something?” she wonders.

As always the chemistry is impeccable, and David Harewood as Estes is merely the latest Brit actor to make ruling an American TV series look easy.

About this programme

4/12. Big plans are made for national hero Brody, but his increasingly erratic behaviour threatens his status as the media's latest darling, prompting the vice president to send an adviser to check him out. Carrie nears the end of her four-week surveillance warrant and grows desperate for evidence linking the marine to Abu Nazir, but Saul instructs her to focus on the terrorist's money trail. Thriller, starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis.

Cast and crew

Cast

Nicholas Brody

Damian Lewis

Jessica Brody

Morena Baccarin

Carrie Mathison

Claire Danes

Saul Berenson

Mandy Patinkin

Crew

Director

Jeffrey Nachmanoff

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