Homeland: Separation Anxiety

October 6, 2015 10:25 AM - Season 5, Episode 1

Almost two years after the Embassy attack in Islamabad, Carrie is building a new life in Berlin. But her peace is threatened when a request from her boss forces her back into the dangerous world she left behind.
posted by LizBoBiz (8 comments total)

Ripped from the headlines!
posted by homunculus at 4:46 PM on October 6, 2015

The CIA is Carrie's Hotel California.
posted by orange swan at 9:13 PM on October 6, 2015

Poor Peter. He really needs to get out.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 11:09 PM on October 6, 2015

I laughed out loud at his "You tell me what the strategy is and I'll tell you if it is working" with regard to Syria. It was a sad, pained laugh.
posted by Justinian at 1:01 AM on October 7, 2015

The ISIS propaganda video shown in the beginning is actually this one. They just added speech balloons and slightly changed the (already fake) captions, but it's the same joke. The Al Hayat Media Center has been renamed as the "Al Tayah Media center".
posted by elgilito at 4:27 AM on October 7, 2015

Wait, that poster, didn't that guy get hanged in Iran?
posted by sammyo at 10:16 AM on October 7, 2015

Tricky to write a coherant fictional show based on a rapidly changing real-life situation - such as in Syria. Snowden's leaks were both mentioned as having been noted - and used as fictional source for the German leak narrative.
posted by rongorongo at 1:20 AM on October 12, 2015

Excited for a new season. A little uncomfortable at how closely the story is hewing to current events. Not so much the backdrop of Islamic State and US/Germany spying, but all the details of the not-Wikileaks organization, etc.
posted by Nelson at 3:37 PM on October 13, 2015