Homeland turns us into Claire Danes fans
Homeland. Claire Danes plays an intense psychotic bitch CIA analyst whose informer tells her that an American prisoner of war has been turned into an Al-Qaeda sleeper. Damian Lewis plays a returning American soldier turned media hero who fits the bill. The CIA analyst is unstable and the soldier is absolutely sympathetic. Usually this means he is guilty, but the plot is way more complicated than that. We can’t stand Danes, but we must say she is perfectly cast.
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Damian Lewis is brilliant: at the end of each episode we think, “Aiiiieee he IS a sleeper,” but when the next episode starts we go, “Maybe he’s not a sleeper…”
President Obama’s endorsement of the show (he called it his favorite) is interesting as many Americans still believe he’s a sleeper. We always laugh during the opening credits, when a car drives past a sign saying “George Bush Center for Intelligence.”
We like the use of jazz as a signifier of Danes’s character’s mental state. Okay she’s unstable, but so were many jazz greats. Thanks to this show we’ve been listening to jazz again. Yes, we’re going to turn into those annoying snots who go on about the differences between the 1960 and 1961 recordings. But no berets and turtlenecks, we swear.
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May 13th, 2012 at 09:20
“Loki plays F. Scott Fitzgerald and the former first lady of France plays a tour guide. All Woody Allen movies star Woody Allen or someone who sounds exactly like him: here it’s Owen Wilson.”
Sold! Now I must find a reliable… um… purveyor of quality films… in my vicinity. Or at least a more reliable torrent.
May 13th, 2012 at 10:14
Hmmmmnnnn…I will ask somebody I know to download this for me. I have a feeling that my laptop will be filled with a variety of TV series.
May 13th, 2012 at 15:01
Well she’s obsessed with her subject and you know what lengths the obsessed will go to…
May 13th, 2012 at 18:14
I’m into the second season of Sherlock and am about to watch the second episode. Season 3 will be in 2014? Nnnnnnnnoooooooooooohhhhhh…….
On GOT: Ygritte has made an appearance and she’s beautiful and malandi.mget away from Him you bitch! Yes they will get it on but I did not expect them to cast somebody that pretty as Ygritte.
May 13th, 2012 at 22:24
Jealous! That actress was also in Downton Abbey—she played the maid who wanted to become a secretary. Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont) is also in Downton Abbey.
May 14th, 2012 at 19:46
Can’t wait for the second season. That freak out scene at the hospital was Danes at her psychotic best.
May 15th, 2012 at 03:20
It’s a good career move. Claire is best with TV roles. Movie roles and drama queeniness aside, the twitchy thing to VF’s Blister In The Sun was one of TV’s better moments in the 90s.
May 15th, 2012 at 12:13
Askaniclan, we need your full name so we can give you the Titanic bag you won.