Homeland: Season 6 – UK Region

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

I have mixed feelings about Season 6. HOMELAND seems to be dragging its story on and on. The names and faces may change but it’s more of the same with terrorism, bombings, Middle East intrigue and it goes on and on. Where this series has always excelled is with its phenomenal cast and stylish photography and special effects.

Claire Danes continues her role as the troubled Carrie Mathison, an ex-CIA agent, who somehow always ends up working with or for the CIA. Danes is a fine actress as she plods through a season of intrigue and dealings with former coworkers and alleged friends. There are so many storylines and characters in HOMELAND that it can get confusing. It’s easy to get wrapped up in a confusing plot just to see where it will all end.-Jack E. Levic

You really have to marvel at how much “Homeland” has evolved from the early Nicholas Brody era to present day. Somehow the writers keep coming up with new ways to re-invent the characters putting them into ever changing situations keeping the show fresh. No other player in the “Homeland” universe has endured more changes than Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes). She’s gone from relentless CIA terrorist hunter to the “Drone Queen” to defender of persecuted Muslims (huh?) working for a non-profit. On paper it doesn’t make much sense but the writers and Dane’s performance make it work somehow and it remains a compelling series to watch.

This season we catch up with the unfortunate Peter Quinn, the ex-Delta turned CIA black ops agent who had the misfortune of being used by terrorists as a guinea pig for nerve agent testing last season. Quinn apparently has suffered a stroke due to being awakened from his medically induced coma on Carrie’s authority when she and Saul were hoping he could give them some vital intel. Now Quinn is a mess; living in a VA facility in NYC, squandering is disability check on prostitutes and drugs, suffering from hemi-paresis and expressive aphasia on top of his raging PTSD. Ultimately Carrie feels responsible for him and takes Peter in to live with her and Franny in the brownstone she’s renting. Predictably, this doesn’t go well and an incident results in Child Protective Services taking Franny from Carrie and placing her in foster care. Prior to that though Quinn observes a man spying on Carrie’s place and follows him leading to evidence that suggests one of Carrie’s clients isn’t guilty of a terrorist act. It gets worse, Quinn winds up in Bellevue psych ward, gets sprung by Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) of all people and sequestered at a remote lake house under the care of old German spy gal pal Astrid. There’s nothing altruistic about this arrangement as it becomes clear when a hit man kills Astrid and tries to do the same to Quinn who escapes (in his paranoia he earlier took the bullets out of Astrid’s hidden pistol in her car leaving her defenseless) and goes after the hit man. Rupert Friend who plays Quinn reportedly wanted off the show after this season and he turns in an Emmy worthy

– Colonel

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, Sebastian Koch, F. Murray Abraham
Format: PAL
Region: Region 2
Number of discs: 4
Classification: To be announced
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: 3 July 2017
ASIN: B06WVQVPBB

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