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Homeland – Season 6, Episode 1 Fair Game

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Homeland – Season 6, Episode 1

Fair Game

Aired Jan 15, 2017

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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Carrie and Franny return to the United States; Dar and Saul debrief the president-elect; Quinn struggles with new circumstances.

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Although Homeland's premiere episode lacks the shows signature thrills and gimmicks, "Fair Game" effectively sets the table for future improvement, establishing a powerful sense of time and place and nuanced character moments throughout.

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Carrie Mathison

Mandy Patinkin

Saul Berenson

Rupert Friend

Peter Quinn

F. Murray Abraham

Dar Adal

Hill Harper

Rob Emmons

Robert Knepper

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Aaron Riccio

Slant Magazine

01/31/2017

Quinn's instability serves to place a tidy, metaphorical bow on "Fair Game," as Carrie, her heart breaking for the man, decides to take him out of the indignity of the VA hospital and into her Brooklyn brownstone.

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Ed Power

Daily Telegraph (UK)

01/30/2017

In previous seasons, Homeland dragged out key story strands endlessly. So hurrah that the new series is simply getting on with things.

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Judith Warner

New York Times

01/17/2017

I'm glad to see Dar Adal is already playing such a prominent role, too... And - did my eyes deceive me - I thought I saw a hint of humanness, in the whiff of desire making its way toward the young, blunt and beautiful Israeli agent.

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Tricia Romano

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

08/22/2017

There wasn't much forward motion in the season six premiere-it was more like a staging episode that set up the players and established the plot point to propel us forward into the darkness.

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David Crow

Den of Geek

01/17/2017

3.5/5

As it turns out, we need Carrie Mathison more than ever now, and that ending signals that instead of the show having to lower its rhetorical tone, we've all begun speaking it.

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Synopsis

Carrie and Franny return to the United States; Dar and Saul debrief the president-elect; Quinn struggles with new circumstances.

Screenwriter: Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa, Gideon Raff
Network: Paramount+ with Showtime
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Jan 15, 2017

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