How Homeland’s Producers Have Navigated the Ups and Downs, the Praise and the Criticism
Showtime series returns Sunday for its eighth and final season

Homeland's final season focuses on the mentor-protege relationship between Saul (Mandy Patinkin) and Carrie (Claire Danes).
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Homeland took the TV industry by storm when it debuted in 2011. The Showtime drama won six Emmys in its first season (including for outstanding drama series and for series leads Claire Danes, as bipolar CIA officer Carrie Mathison, and Damian Lewis, as POW-turned-in-captivity Nicholas Brody), and enthralling audiences, including President Obama.