She is a particular CIA spy: she is bipolar, and therefore not very reliable. We had already followed in the British series the prisoner a spy with a tormented soul who bordered on paranoia. 50 years later, revolves around a contemporary theme: the release by the American army of a GI detained by Al Qaeda in Iraq but who may have been returned. The spy who also fell in love with him by dint of watching him on telemonitoring screens right?
Homeland is actually the adaptation of a much more intimate Israeli series. We are not dead created by Gideon Raff. We are not dead explores a strong theme: how is the return to their families of two Israeli IDF soldiers detained by Hamas for several months? The Israeli series available this summer on Arte.tv scrutinized the trauma of the two soldiers. With horrible flashbacks, she revealed the tortures undergone, dwelled on the relationship between wife and husband found, between father and son.
Hollywood seizes on the concept. In this case, Howard Gordon, screenwriter of 24 hours flat. To captivate Americans, he talks about the return of a GI detained in Iraq. Above all, the author who knew how to speak of paranoia and terrorist attacks in 24 h chrono, adds this brilliant element: the frail and blonde CIA investigator blonde played by Claire Danes whom they dress up with a bipolar syndrome.
From the first season, we are seized by doubt. So who can you sympathize with? To her who takes pills and falls in love with the GI? Or to GI Nicholas Brody, adorable family man on paper.
In the following seasons, the series takes us from Pakistan to the Middle East via the CIA offices in Berlin and even tells of an attack on American soil, a few months after that of the Boston Marathon. The series brews other geopolitical themes and even manipulation on social networks always at a breakneck pace.
Homeland, 8 seasons, available on Netflix, We are not dead, available free of charge on arte.tv.
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