Relentless cynicism and misery: a moment for HOMELAND.

We’ve been watching the sixth season of Homeland and it is, by a long leap, the most unremitting onscreen misery-parade I’ve sat through since Requiem for a Dream. The show has always been lurid pulp, but until the fifth season it managed to keep foregrounding its central political/cultural concerns, making sure its cynicism didn’t curdle […]