Homeland - episode one.

Homeland

Is a new show on channel four based in America. It is basically about a soldier who was left for dead in Iraq. He is rescued by American soldiers after years of being in captivity. However when he returns to America and is called a 'hero' a young women thinks different and goes on to investigate him.

In the first episode all the characters where introduced. The soldier captivated (Nicholas Brody) is rescued and returned to America, welcomed by citizens and his family. His family who assumed he was dead gave up hope of him ever returning and moved on with their lives, Brodys wife who has been sleeping with his former friend or is also a soldier while he was taken hostage made out they never had given up hope.

A CIA officer who was tipped of by a man held hostage in Iraq that an American soldier had turned and would now be a threat to America ivestigates as soon as Brody gets home. In a meeting with Brody, Carrie Mathison (CIA officer) shoes pictures of Al-Qaeda to him and asks if he has seen him and he denys ever seeing him. Because Carrie doesnt believe this, she illegally puts CCTV in Brodys home allowing her to watch everyone of his movements.

To the end of the programme you realize that Carrie is maybe not sane as her friend discovers physcotic pills in her aspirin box which she takes daily, but also when Brody meets up with the wife of his former partner who was also captivated he explains he died being beaten to death and says he never saw it, a flashback shows that Brody was the one beating his friend to death commanded by Al-Qaeda himself. This highlights that maybe the story is not as obvious as we though it would be.

In this episode uses flashbacks to the crime science, for example the place where they were being held capitive and beaten. It also uses quite sacry images of people being beaten and prepared for torture for example Brody is tied by his legs dangling upside down naked covered in blood, this is probably to give the viewers an insite of what might happen in real life, giving them a shock.