Midknight Review -- new and revised: What is disappointing is Homeland having changed so suddenly in the face of a bit of criticism over the last few years; in one season break, they went from Jack Bauer to Edward Snowden.

Preface comment: 24 legacy - yes; Mandy Pitinkin and the Islamophobic Homeland, no.

As a Homeland fan with a tiny crush on Carrie Mathison, I had eagerly awaited the latest 12 episodes. Watching it felt like being dumped in public. Carrie is now a civil rights activist/struggling single mom. Islamophobia seems to be a bigger deal than violence in the name of Allah. A not-so-subtle political agenda has crept in — against “over-reacting” to terror, against “bigotry” and the dominance of the “white male membership” of the intelligence community, as actor Mandy Patinkin has said.
Even after a bomb goes off in the middle of Manhattan the president-elect speaks with an irritated sigh of “more witch hunts,” when she hears the sitting president call for re-enforcement of the Patriot Act. It’s a disorienting experience to watch the show. As if the countless fictional explosions in the previous season and the real attacks in Boston, Orlando, San Bernardino, Nice, Paris never happened or didn’t mean much in any case.
“The end of the West today would mean the end of any possible civilization,” the French philosopher Jacques Lellul wrote back in 1978. With all the casual blaming of America (and Israel) Homeland seems to simply accept this sad observation. The show is now covered in a creamy, politically correct sauce, hiding the freshness and flavors we used to love. It might be good for viewership and ratings. It is also morally weak. I used to love the moral clarity in the writing, as well as the realistic portrayal of the struggle with mental illness, single-mother child-rearing, and our conduct in the struggle against “violent extremism.” In an era when President Obama used that bland euphemism, Homeland called Islamic radicalism by its name. It used to be more or less aligned with President Trump’s current thinking. Now, it is backtracking to Obama’s . . . . . What is disappointing is Homeland having changed so suddenly in the face of a bit of criticism over the last few years; in one season break, they went from Jack Bauer to Edward Snowden.
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See the American Spectator article, here.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

What is disappointing is Homeland having changed so suddenly in the face of a bit of criticism over the last few years; in one season break, they went from Jack Bauer to Edward Snowden.

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