The team behind 24 has a new take on terrorism in Homeland, premiering Sunday on Showtime (10 ET/PT).
The show revolves around two damaged protagonists: Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), a Marine sniper missing in Iraq since 2003 and presumed dead, then discovered as a prisoner of war; and CIA counterterrorism analyst Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), who had been warned by an informant a POW was “turned” into a traitor and now suspects Brody is tied to an imminent attack.
He’s welcomed home to suburban Washington as a hero and treated as a “poster boy” for the war, but he’s having problems readjusting to society and his family. She’s bipolar — she calls it a “mood disorder” — and is obsessively tracking Brody after a misstep that derailed her career as a case officer.
Howard Gordon, an executive producer of [‘Homeland’ and ’24’], says that while 24 reflected an urgent, post-9/11 ethos, Homeland has the benefit of historical distance and takes a more skeptical view of the war on terror. “Should we be afraid of the same things we were afraid of 10 years ago? The world is more complex, and our understanding of it is more nuanced. And there’s a gray space of not knowing who the good guys and bad guys are.”
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