History Series / Homeland

The show premiered in October 2011 and has won Golden Globes and Emmys for best series and best main actors (both Danes and Lewis) in the drama category. It has just concluded its seventh season. In April 2018, Claire Danes [[https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/19/entertainment/claire-danes-homeland-season-8/index.html confirmed that the eighth season will be the final season]].

* Hypocrite: O'Keefe speaks glowingly of the treasured second amendment and the duty of Americans to stand up physically for their freedom, yet in season 7 it's revealed that he's never fired a gun before and is a DirtyCoward.

* {{Hypocrite"" O'Keefe speaks glowingly of the treasured second amendment and the duty of Americans to stand up physically for their freedom, yet in season 7 it's revealed that he's never fired a gun before and is a DirtyCoward.

* SleepDeprivationTorture: The series has an interrogation scene with a prisoner has been deprived of sleep from sporadic Death Metal blasts.

A raid on a terrorist safehouse in the Middle East leads to the rescue of USMC Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Creator/DamianLewis), who has been missing in action for eight years. Brody receives a hero's welcome from his wife Jessica (Creator/MorenaBaccarin), {{CIA}} Deputy Director David Estes (Creator/DavidHarewood), the Vice President and the entire country -- but not from Carrie Mathison (Creator/ClaireDanes), a former CIA Operations Officer. Based on intelligence from her last (and completely unauthorised) mission, Carrie believes that Brody is a sleeper agent waiting to be activated. With the help of her mentor, CIA Middle East section chief Saul Berenson (Creator/MandyPatinkin), Carrie sets out to prove that Brody, seen by the world as an American hero, is really a traitor.

** In Season 4, whilst watching multiple YouTube videos of [[spoiler: Section Chief Sandy Bachmann]] being beaten to death, Quinn notices a member of the crowd wearing an earpiece, suggesting the murder was orchestrated by the Pakistani government.
* SpyFiction: "Stale Beer Flavored"; gritty and dramatic [[TheWarOnTerror post 9/11]] variety centered on the {{CIA}}'s anti-terrorism efforts.

* InvisiblePresident: Very little details about the sitting president have been given, it's known that his second mandate is expiring and the VP is lined up as the heir apparent. Interestingly, the credits interweave images of a [[ThroughTheYearsCredits younger Carrie]] with clips and speeches of Reagan, Bush the Elder, Clinton, Bush the Younger and Obama about terrorist acts or ongoing wars.
** Also telling is that the sitting president is not around during the events of "The Choice".
* This was played straight for five seasons, but (essentially) [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in Season 6, which takes place mostly during the transition period after the "next" president was elected. The president-elect (who becomes president in the season finale) became a regular character. The Season 6 finale also strongly suggests she will remain an important and visible character in the following season.

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Brody, despite being a prominent, unique public face and asset, is tasked with [[spoiler: an [[IdiotBall ill-conceived petty errand by Abu Nazir's organization]]; the relocation of a bomb-maker. It goes awry.]] Deconstructed, as he gets increasingly frustrated at being palmed off with jobs that would be better left to other people.
** Many reviewers have noticed that, by Season 3, the CIA appears to have about 6 employees who are used for every assignment, even ones where their involvement seems wildly inappropriate.

* MeaningfulName: Issa is the Arabic name for Jesus. [[spoiler:His death inspires Brody to take up his father's religious cause.]]

The show premiered in October 2011 and has won Golden Globes and Emmys for best series and best main actors (both Danes and Lewis) in the drama category. It has just concluded its sixth season and been renewed for a seventh. In April 2018, Claire Danes [[https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/19/entertainment/claire-danes-homeland-season-8/index.html confirmed that the eighth season will be the final season]].

The show premiered in October 2011 and has won Golden Globes and Emmys for best series and best main actors (both Danes and Lewis) in the drama category. It has just concluded its sixth season and been renewed for a seventh.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Right-wing conspiracy theorist and radio host Brett O'Keefe is obviously modeled on Alex Jones, but he also shares a name with another right-wing provocateur, James O'Keefe who notably [[spoiler:has been accused of falsifying videos and evidence to smear his opponents, in much the same way Brett does on the show.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Main Characters -- [[spoiler: David Estes, Abu Nazir, Vice President Walden, Nicholas Brody.]] Recurring Characters -- [[spoiler:Cynthia Walden, Finn Walden, Tom Walker, Aileen Morgan, Raqim Faisel, Elizabeth Gaines, Lynn Reed, Fara Sherazi, Astrid.]] And a host of lesser characters that get killed off in droves.

''Homeland'' is a [[PsychologicalThriller psychological]] SpyDrama loosely based off the Israeli series ''[[Series/PrisonersOfWar Hatufim]]'' (literally "Abductees", English title ''Prisoners of War'') sharing an executive producer, co-developed by Gideon Raff, Alex Gansa and Alex Bererson, produced by Creator/{{Showtime}} and set during TheWarOnTerror.

The show premiered in October 2011 and has won Golden Globes and Emmys for best series and best main actors (both Danes and Lewis) in the drama category. It's currently in its sixth season.

* FalseFlagOperation: An angry young Muslim man who'd been charged with (and cleared of) supporting terrorism is set up to look like a suicide bomber after he was released by some government officials who wanted to stop the President elect's reform.

* StringTheory: In the first season's 11th episode (The Vest), Saul can only make sense of Carries various notes, documents and pieces of information after he applies them in an orderly way to a wall that connects all of the bits in a spatial fashion. There are no strings, though, so this might belong to a (existing?) higher-ranking trope of "external thinking", expressed through spatial arrangements of information.

** "In "Q&A", Brody [[spoiler: working with the CIA on matters of national security]] is true, the fact [[spoiler: they are working "on him" and he's there in his quality of terrorist]] is omitted

** Season 3 has more of a BittersweetEnding. [[spoiler:Brody succeeds with killing the head of the Revolutionary Guard and gains a small measure of redemption, but he and Carrie are left at the mercy of the Iranian authorities after being betrayed by Senator Lockhart. Carrie is forced to watch as Brody is executed in public, now carrying his child.]]

* GenreDeconstruction: Deconstructs the counter-terrorism thriller. Rather than action heroes or superspies the CIA protagonists are more like academics and bureaucrats. For the most part, the terrorists are not portrayed as monsters; some are sympathetic and most, while clearly villains, nevertheless have motivations one can understand. Any use of violence to fight terrorism most often kills civilians more than terrorists, at times creating more terrorists; and a fair amount of time is spent exploring the motivations of the terrorists and how/why they chose this life. Finally, the CIA leadership and politicians are more interested in appearing tough on terror than actually being effective. There are a few protagonists that are truly committed to protecting the nation, but at least as many are committed to keeping themselves covered and looking tough more than to actual security.

* HeroicSacrifice: In "A False Glimmer" Qasim tries to stop Bibi from triggering the gas, gets shot for his trouble, but still manages to pull him away from it long enough, letting Carrie shoot him and therefore saving thousands of lives. He dies in Carrie's arms as she recites an Islamic prayer for him.

* StrawmanPolitical: Right-wing extremist Brett O'Keefe has a talk show where he peddles venom toward the president-elect, various conspiracy theories included. [[spoiler: It turns out he works with a faction of the CIA to take her down.]]

* IdiotPlot: Roya tasks Brody, a high-value public face with top access to American government secrets, to pick up a sleeper terrorist in the middle of nowhere -- one whom they already know has blown his cover and may be under surveillance -- and move him to a new location. The stupidity of this plot is recognized in universe as Brody calls out Roya for it the next time they meet.

* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler: Brody's revenge plan involves blowing himself-up, taking the VP and several high-ranking government officials with him. It's thwarted by a faulty vest at first and later by a change of heart]] in the season one finale.