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    The Trouble With <i>Homeland</i>’s Political Realism

    The sixth season revealed a TV show trying desperately to keep up with the news, and sacrificing coherence as a result.
    by Sophie Gilbert Apr 10, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Showtime

    One of the subtler side effects of the Peak TV era is that good television has come to be understood as allegory as much as entertainment. It’s why the HBO show , which started out as satire, has more recently been for its realism. And why critics including and (no relation) have recently considered the shadow of President Donald Trump that seems to loom over popular culture. But for , whose sixth-season finale aired on Sunday night, the show’s geopolitical bona fides have been in its DNA since the beginning, when about kicking off each new season with to Langley.

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