SERIES PREMIERE: This is the eighth and final season for Homeland, and based on Season 8’s first four episodes, it’s going to be one of its strongest seasons ever. Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin are intense and engrossing as the unstable spy and her long-time mentor, both of whom find themselves this season at the very center of efforts to end the war in the middle east. Beau Bridges, in a central supporting role, adds even more humanity and empathy – and what this final season does is put Danes’ Carrie Matheson into the same space as her former lover Brody, as a potentially unreliable narrator and character. For this final season, Carrie is the new Brody... For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower, and for Claire Danes' perspective, see Mike Hughes' Open Mike.

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