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

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.

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."

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

A look at the growing number of TV series featuring spies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.¿

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.