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'Homeland' Season 7 premiere recap: 'Enemy of the State'

Carrie is back to her usual ways in the Season 7 premiere of "Homeland"

• Opinion

Firebombing suspect's social-media moves a sign that the revolution is being live-streamed

In 1970, jazz musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron recorded an enduring piece of pre-rap social prophecy titled "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." But today, the revolution is being streamed – often live – on social media that are replacing television as the principal storyteller of American life. And it is shaking the pillars of the power structure at their very base.

By David Zurawik

Mar 24, 2017

• Entertainment

'Homeland' recap: Carrie juggles a side gig, day job and Quinn in her basement

Change can be difficult, and Carrie and Quinn are struggling to deal with the recent change in their living arrangement on this week's episode of "Homeland."

• Entertainment

'Homeland' Season 6 premiere recap: 'Fair Game'

"Homeland" returns, and Carrie has a new civilian job, Quinn is spiraling downward, and Saul and Dar are feeling the heat from the new president-elect.

• Maryland

When athletes misbehave, don't judge too quickly

• Opinion

10 TV shows to help you binge through the blizzard

Here are 10 TV shows or productions that can help you joyfully binge your way through the blizzard. I've seen or done them all, and you can access them through various on demand services.

By David Zurawik

Jan 23, 2016

• Entertainment

'Homeland' Season 5 finale recap: An anti-climactic end in 'A False Glimmer'

For the second consecutive year, the last episode of the season felt anti-climactic. The terrorist threat was shut down in the first eight minutes, leaving another 50 minutes of screen time to tie up loose ends with characters we don't care about or trivial aspects of the lives of the characters we are invested in.

• Entertainment

'Homeland' recap: 'Why is This Night Different'?

Saul and Allison are attending a Seder at the home of the Israeli official Saul bluffed last week. The host prays for the fortitude to defeat the enemies of the Jewish people. He looks at Saul.

• Entertainment

'Homeland' recap: A shocking new target is revealed

After the credits (lion mask girl, maze and jazz are still there, but new stuff too!), we open with Carrie arriving at the Lebanon/Syria border with the refugee crisis in full swing.

• Drones

Everyman Theatre to give Baltimore premiere of a play 'ripped from the headlines'

"Grounded," George Brant's provocative one-woman play about drone warfare, will receive its Baltimore premiere starring Megan Anderson, directed by Derek Goldman.

• Commuting

Good Morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Monday

• Baltimore Orioles

Good Morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Monday

• Opinion

'Homeland' shows life after Brody and keen social conscience

In the opening episode of Season 4 of "Homeland," Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), CIA station chief in Kabul, is sitting in a rec center within the U.S. compound drinking a beer and watching baseball on TV, when a young Air Force pilot approaches.

By David Zurawik

Oct 4, 2014

• Concerts

BSO suffers three high-profile cancellations

Hahn, Patinkin and LuPone have bowed out, but orchestra takes it in stride

• Opinion

Violent behavior extends far beyond NFL [Letter]

Violent behavior and imagery extends far beyond NFL and into popular culture

• Opinion

On TV, the spies have it

A look at the growing number of TV series featuring spies

• Features

Now D.C. wants to horn in on Baltimore's 'House of Cards' action

A D.C. mayoral candidate would like the Netflix series to film less in Maryland, more in Washington

• Classical Music

Baltimore Symphony's 2014-2015 season to explore 'spirituality and transcendence'

BSO programs spiritual works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Bernstein and others; season's guest artists include Hilary Hahn, Garrick Ohlsson, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin.

• TV

'Homeland' recap, 'The Star'

A recap of the Dec. 15 season finale of 'Homeland'

• TV

'Homeland' recap: 'Good Night'

A recap of the Dec. 1 episode of 'Homeland,' as Operation Hellfire gets off to a shaky start

• TV

'Homeland' recap: 'Horse and Wagon'

A recap of the Nov. 24 episode of "Homeland," as Brody gets himself a major mission

• TV

'Homeland' recap: 'A Red Wheelbarrow'

A recap of the Nov. 17 episode of 'Homeland,' in which Carrie takes one from the team -- again

• Opinion

Amazon makes its own TV and does OK with 'Alpha House'

Solid political satire from Garry Trudeau makes for impressive Amazon launch.

• TV

'Homeland' recap, 'Gerontion'

A recap of the Nov. 10 episode of 'Homeland,' as the CIA and Bethesda police lock horns over the murder investigation

• TV

'Homeland' recap, 'Still Positive'

A recap of the Nov. 3 episode of 'Homeland," as Saul and Javadi look to settle some old scores

• TV

'Homeland' recap, 'The Yoga Play'

A recap of the Oct. 27 episode of 'Homeland,' as Carrie becomes the hunted

• TV

'Homeland' recap, 'Game On'

A recap of the Oct. 20 episode of 'Homeland," in which a major plot twist throws everything up in the air

• TV

'Homeland' recap, 'Tower of David'

A recap of the ct. 13 episode of 'Homeland," as Carrie and Brody try to escape their separate hells

• TV

'Homeland' recap, 'Uh...Oh...Ah...'

A recap of the Oct. 6 episode of 'Homeland,' with Carrie having even more trouble getting people to believe her

• TV

'Homeland' Season 3 premiere recap, 'Tin Man is Down'

A recap of the Season 3 opener of "Homeland," as the fallout from the terrorist bombing begins to reveal itself

• Television

'Homeland' returns steeped in D.C. dystopia

Showtime's "Homeland" returns with incisive looks at moral issues, politics.

• Opinion

Baltimore-shot 'Veep,' 'House of Cards' bring home Emmys

Wins for Jeff Daniels, Claire Danes edge out Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright

• Maryland

Staff picks for the Emmy Awards

• Opinion

What Emmys mean to 'House of Cards,' Internet TV

When the Maryland workers building the sets for "House of Cards" started sawing and hammering the offices and homes of characters like Francis and Claire Underwood 20 months ago in Harford County, most of them were thinking only of earning a steady paycheck, not being part of TV history.

• Opinion

'VEEP' goes deep in Season 2, and there's more Julia Louis-Dreyfus to love

HBO sitcom 'VEEP,' shot in Md., savvily explores modern anxieties

• Opinion

Dominic West - From 'The Wire' to 'The Hour' and beyond

It would be hard to find any leading actor in American TV drama whose proven range is greater than that of Dominic West, star of BBC America¿s ¿The Hour.¿

• TV

'Homeland' Season 2 finale recap

The finale of ¿Homeland¿ Season 2 was an appropriately epic and totally off the wall conclusion to a narrative arc that prioritized constant, edge-of-your-seat dramatic momentum, even at the occasional cost of believability.

• Opinion

Where 'Homeland' fits on 'The Family Tree' of great TV drama

When Henry Bromell won the Writers' Guild Award this year for scripting The Good Soldier episode of Homeland, he thanked Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana.

• TV

'Homeland' Season 2, Episode 10 recap

Could you really kill someone by hacking his pacemaker? An alarmed researcher in Australia thinks so, and really, isn't that enough cause to dial down your "Homeland" disbelief index?

• TV

'Homeland' Season 2, Episode 9 recap

Did you think you were going to be able to settle in for this episode of "Homeland?" Did last week's bizarre plot twist that saw Brody whisked away for an evening with Abu Nazir get you thinking you might spend an episode watching the congressman hooked to a car battery?

• Opinion

Remembering a different version of Larry Hagman

• Opinion

'The Hour' returns with what might just be best cast on television

It¿s not often that a sequel is better than the original, especially when the original is as dazzling as BBC America¿s miniseries ¿The Hour¿ was last year.But that¿s the case with the intoxicating mix of lust, longing, superb acting and a little bit of 1950s Brit journalism that debuts Wednesday night at 9 on BBC America.

• TV

'Homeland' Season 2, Episode 8 recap

Do you remember the term "stress position?" It was part of the debate over the limits of interrogation in the war on terror. One such practice, apparently used by the KGB, leaves a prisoner forced to stand with no relief for up to a day. It's awful.

• TV

'Homeland' Season 2, Episode 7 recap

• TV

'American Horror Story' Q&A with Sarah Paulson

• Opinion

'Seal Team Six' celebrates Obama, suffers sins of docudrama

There is no TV genre more problematic than docudrama. And Sunday's premiere of "SEAL Team Six," which claims to be the true, inside story of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, is as problematic as they come.

• TV

'Homeland' Season 2, Episode 6 recap

Maybe Carrie's family is right about this job being too stressful. Beyond the psychological challenges of subterfuge and shifting loyalties, this week's episode of "Homeland" zeroes in on the broader, more tangible threat of violence.

• TV

'Homeland' Season 2, Episode 5 recap

Don't forget that 'Homeland' has done this to you before. Just like they confirmed much earlier than you may have expected last year that Brody was in fact in league with terrorists, the show's creators threw out our expectations last week that Brody would evade capture or that this season would be about the CIA's initial pursuit.

• Hotel and Accommodation Industry

'Homeland' Episode 4 recap, 'New Car Smell'

Sure, her official position is hazy -- and she might not even be getting paid, but Carrie Mathison is back at the CIA. And so are bunch of video screens fixed on Nicholas Brody.

• TV

'Homeland' Season 2, Episode 3 recap: 'State of Independence'

Don't you just hate it when you're trying to lie your way out of a dinner party, and the only way you can get the guy you just stabbed to shut up is by snapping his neck? Nicholas Brody's been there.