Homeland Season 4
Overview
After the Brody era, Homeland basically reboots itself — and season four is the one that saved the show. Carrie Mathison is now a CIA station chief in Kabul, nicknamed "the Drone Queen," and when one of her strikes wipes out a wedding party, the fallout follows her to a new posting in Islamabad. There she discovers Aayan, a soft-spoken medical student who survived her strike and whose phone footage has made him a reluctant celebrity; Carrie decides he's an asset, and the way she uses him is where the season gets morally thorny. Claire Danes and Rupert Friend, whose Quinn is quietly becoming the show's soul, anchor a run of episodes that's tighter and meaner than the show had been in years: Saul back in the field and in real danger, a terrorist mastermind everyone thought was dead, and a mid-season attack on the US embassy that's a genuine white-knuckle set piece. It asks hard questions about what drone warfare does to the people ordering it, and it doesn't flinch. If you bailed on Homeland after season three, this is your way back in.
