This show is amazingly topical without being partisan, and just plain brilliant

When Homeland first debated the first episodes seemed to be all about propagandizing for the Iraq war, at least superficially to me it seemed like it, so I did not watch it past about the 4th episode.

Some years later when I had a streaming account ( I don't recall which one it was ) I was at the end of all the stuff I wanted to watch, and reluctantly thought I would take another try at watching Homeland, since I could binge watch several seasons if I liked it.

Well, watching the rest of the first season, and then up to about season 4, and then even buying season 5, changed my mind. As unlikely as someone like Carrie Mathieson, and suspending one's disbelief as to whether bipolarity is as they portray it on the show, this show has been consistently compelling.

Beyond that it has been a spy series 1000x to the 1000th power of something silly like James Bond or Jack Ryan. I have never seen a spy movie that so closely treaded topical events, and yet did partitioned itself so well from the real people, and partisanship.

Doing so Homeland has evolved into a brilliant piece of work, an artistic masterpiece that shows how chaotic this world's politics and national interests are while not getting its feet stuck in the muck of trying to hard to be exact in the news.

I am not watching the last Season 8 of Homeland, and the tension is material ... it is crushing me as I watch it cheering for characters that Homeland fans have known and cared for for many seasons, and seeing a visions that looks very plausible of the way American politics works, or can at least explain the many failures and problems US foreign policy has had.

I look forward to each new minute of this show, even as I know it is eventually soon going to lead to the end and there will be no more to watch.

For a show of its kind, Homeland is the best of its kind, rated by me 10/5, the best of the best.