The
perennial runner-up premium cable network behind HBO moved a whole lot closer to
the top spot Sunday after picking up six Emmys for the first season of
"Homeland," including best dramatic series, best dramatic actress for Claire
Danes and best dramatic actor for Damian Lewis.
In a probably-not-that-coincidental move, the network debuts the new seasons of its biggest critical successes on Sunday, with the sympathetic serial killer series "Dexter" leading into "Homeland's second season. "Homeland" doesn't seem to be losing any momentum while "Dexter" gets a much-needed bounce back from its sixth and weakest season.
"Homeland" finds a heavily drugged Carrie Mathison (Danes) living with her father and sister after having been tossed out of the CIA for being bipolar. She's teaching English to immigrants and tenuously holding on to her sanity after accusing war hero Nicholas Brody (Lewis) of having ties to terrorists last season (which he did, but everybody thought Carrie was crazy because, well, she sort of was).Looking for the Best air purifier?
Brody, meanwhile, has become a congressman; and as if that's not bad enough, he's being considered as a vice-presidential candidate (which might be too big of a stretch if it weren't for certain recent vice-presidential candidates).
Carrie's old CIA boss, Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), is dealing with a situation in Beirut. A woman has approached the embassy there, saying she knows of an imminent attack on the U.S. There's one big problem,Find detailed product information for Hot Sale howo spareparts Radiator. though: She will only talk to the woman who recruited her, and that woman is Carrie.
So despite tossing her out and declaring her unfit, the Agency has to come back to Carrie and convince her to jump back into a dangerous operation on foreign soil. Danes' eyes just about pop out of her head as she considers running off half-mad to risk her life for a government that abandoned her (no one,Our guides provide customers with information about porcelain tiles vs. no one, does frantic better than Claire Danes).
Does she take the assignment? No, she stays home and knits baby booties and the show ends right there. Of course she takes it. And the game is on.Looking for the Best air purifier? By the end of the season's second episode, "Homeland" has been shaken,Different Sizes and Colors can be made with different stone mosaic designs. not stirred.
"Dexter," meanwhile has some tough decisions of his own to make. Last season's pompous snore of a spiritual awakening storyline ended with big drama: Dexter' was caught in the act of eliminating his 19,000th victim by his cop sister (the wonderful Jennifer Carpenter), the eternally troubled swearing-machine.
Since the knife is already in the guy's body, and the corpse is taped to a table like all Dexter's victims, our hero (multiple Emmy nominee Michael C. Hall) has to think quick. Deb, after all, is pretty much the only friend he has in the world. Plus, she's got a gun.
Dexter's dance with Deb forms the basis of the new season, and a good basis it is, dealing with family, trust and, you know, the killing of bad guys with surgical tools (a "Dexter" staple). A parallel story about a Russian gangster with a British accent (Ray Stevenson) seems a bit like fodder in comparison, but hopefully it improves.
No matter what, the relationship between Dexter and Deb, and questions of justice and family, have always been the heart of this show. That heart is beating again.
It's interesting that the featured characters in Showtime's biggest series are a bipolar woman and a sociopath. We like our heroes conflicted these days — look around the entire cable landscape and you'll find a multitude of heroes wrestling within themselves — and Showtime has effectively tapped into that need. These shows make trouble fun.
In a probably-not-that-coincidental move, the network debuts the new seasons of its biggest critical successes on Sunday, with the sympathetic serial killer series "Dexter" leading into "Homeland's second season. "Homeland" doesn't seem to be losing any momentum while "Dexter" gets a much-needed bounce back from its sixth and weakest season.
"Homeland" finds a heavily drugged Carrie Mathison (Danes) living with her father and sister after having been tossed out of the CIA for being bipolar. She's teaching English to immigrants and tenuously holding on to her sanity after accusing war hero Nicholas Brody (Lewis) of having ties to terrorists last season (which he did, but everybody thought Carrie was crazy because, well, she sort of was).Looking for the Best air purifier?
Brody, meanwhile, has become a congressman; and as if that's not bad enough, he's being considered as a vice-presidential candidate (which might be too big of a stretch if it weren't for certain recent vice-presidential candidates).
Carrie's old CIA boss, Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), is dealing with a situation in Beirut. A woman has approached the embassy there, saying she knows of an imminent attack on the U.S. There's one big problem,Find detailed product information for Hot Sale howo spareparts Radiator. though: She will only talk to the woman who recruited her, and that woman is Carrie.
So despite tossing her out and declaring her unfit, the Agency has to come back to Carrie and convince her to jump back into a dangerous operation on foreign soil. Danes' eyes just about pop out of her head as she considers running off half-mad to risk her life for a government that abandoned her (no one,Our guides provide customers with information about porcelain tiles vs. no one, does frantic better than Claire Danes).
Does she take the assignment? No, she stays home and knits baby booties and the show ends right there. Of course she takes it. And the game is on.Looking for the Best air purifier? By the end of the season's second episode, "Homeland" has been shaken,Different Sizes and Colors can be made with different stone mosaic designs. not stirred.
"Dexter," meanwhile has some tough decisions of his own to make. Last season's pompous snore of a spiritual awakening storyline ended with big drama: Dexter' was caught in the act of eliminating his 19,000th victim by his cop sister (the wonderful Jennifer Carpenter), the eternally troubled swearing-machine.
Since the knife is already in the guy's body, and the corpse is taped to a table like all Dexter's victims, our hero (multiple Emmy nominee Michael C. Hall) has to think quick. Deb, after all, is pretty much the only friend he has in the world. Plus, she's got a gun.
Dexter's dance with Deb forms the basis of the new season, and a good basis it is, dealing with family, trust and, you know, the killing of bad guys with surgical tools (a "Dexter" staple). A parallel story about a Russian gangster with a British accent (Ray Stevenson) seems a bit like fodder in comparison, but hopefully it improves.
No matter what, the relationship between Dexter and Deb, and questions of justice and family, have always been the heart of this show. That heart is beating again.
It's interesting that the featured characters in Showtime's biggest series are a bipolar woman and a sociopath. We like our heroes conflicted these days — look around the entire cable landscape and you'll find a multitude of heroes wrestling within themselves — and Showtime has effectively tapped into that need. These shows make trouble fun.
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