Everyone loves Homeland. You love it. President Obama loves it. The “gritty” “realistic” Showtime series won four Emmy Awards this year, including Best Drama, besting everyone else’s favorite criminality porn series Breaking Bad, no easy feat. Critics fawn over its “sophisticated ethical ambiguity” and the “difficult questions it raises” about our current political climate, but the reality is it’s just another exercise in glorified security state propaganda.
It’s something I’ve been saying for a while now, (even as I tune in every week), where I expressed frustration with the show’s black and white depiction of “brown.” While the ostensible anti-hero Brody is given agency and motivation for his “terrorist” sympathies, the balance of the drama’s antagonists are empty cyphers of stereotypical anti-American “evil-doing.” It’s enough to make a viewer scan the interminable opening-credits for a Donald Rumsfeld co-writer credit. Read the rest.
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