In a fall season whose biggest stories have been an expensive dinosaur show and the resurrection of the sitcom, one of the best new shows snuck onto our screens with all the stealth of the espionage world it depicts.  Homeland , which premiered last more

Homeland is the best new show of the year, and its pilo t was definitely one of the best season premieres of the fall.  Anchored by stunning lead performances from Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, this CIA-based Showtime series has everything you co more

An unstable, clinically unwell CIA operative becomes obsessed with proving that a Marine, held captive by Al Queda for eight years and now returned as a war hero, is really a “turned” terrorist operative with plans to target the U.S. for an attack. This i more

“Homeland,” the new thriller series from Showtime, tells the story of an American soldier (played by Damian Lewis) who may or may not have been turned into a terrorist  spy, and a CIA operations officer, played by Claire Danes, who decides that he ma more

Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes in her first return to series TV since "My So Called Life") is a basket case. Seriously, she's potentially psychotic. She may also be the only person standing between the U.S. and another massive terrorist attack. In "Homelan more

They seem too good to be true at first, the two leads of Showtime's  "Homeland,"  the best new show of the fall season. One is Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), a tough, smart, dedicated CIA agent who can only be held back by her by-the-book super more

HOMELAND  “Pilot” Season 1 Episode 1 – You know that saying, “save the best for last?” Well, pilot season is just about over and this is one of the last ones to make it through the gate. And that saying? Totally applicable here. Comedy or drama, this more

Nobody likes a naysayer. Until, of course, it becomes clear that yes was the wrong answer. In his book “The Big Short,” Michael Lewis focused on the Wall Street misfits who bet against the subprime mortgage bubble. The White House counterterrorism coordin more