Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph of Introduction]
Homeland, whose broadcast started on the American cable channel Showtime in October 2011, is structured around a surveillance-aided investigation [1]. CIA agent Carrie Mathison, the female protagonist, plays the subject of the search, with Lieutenant Nicholas Brody, the male protagonist, as its object. The beginning of the first episode gives the motive for the suspicion that leads Carrie, who suffers from bipolar disorder, to keep an eye on Brody. The opening sequence shows Carrie, on an unauthorized mission in Iraq, extorting a supposed revelation from one of her assets, who is about to be executed. This information purports that Al Qaeda has "turned" a prisoner of war into an accomplice. Soon after, Brody unexpectedly resurfaces. His sudden return causes surprise among the characters in the show, first of all for his wife Jessica, who has become romantically involved with his best friend Mike. Convinced that Brody has embraced the ideas of the enemy and is preparing an attack on American ground, Carrie concludes that his unlikely reappearance has been carefully planned.
Repository Citation
Lefait, Sébastien. "Hello, Big Brother': Perception Disorders and the Scopic Regime of Reality TV in Homeland (Showtime, 2011-)." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 13, no. 3, 2013, pp. 1–22. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol13/iss3/11