Monday 11 November 2013

Has Homeland Lost Its Edge?

The Emmy Award winning show has been running for almost three years and is currently on its third season. While watching the first two seasons always had me anticipating for more, the current season is making me want to turn it off. The excitement that the initial seasons had is sorely lacking. Whether the first seven episodes have been leading up to something big at the end, the intrigue that had captured viewers for the first two years is something that the producers of the show need to go back, explore and reignite into this season. Whether the problem is that there isn't enough of Brody in the show at the moment, the attempted insight into his whereabouts was an epic fail of an episode - boring, disorientated and lack lustre.

Now that the show has been renewed for a fourth season, writers, producers and directors need to seriously think about what made seasons one and two such an immense success and focus on why season three isn't as successful as they'd hoped.

Although episodes six and seven have been heating up indicating potential for the season to improve, the truth is if you can't garner the interest of viewers within the two or three episodes then it is time to face facts that there is some serious work to be done.

Time to go back to the drawing board, producers!