4. We Feel The Secret Movements Of A World Beyond Us
Spy dramas have always fascinated us. Whether the classic dramas of James Bond or the many television and film dramas that have, at their heart, the world of surveillance, espionage, and double cross, we are intrigued with the sense of a clockwork operating behind the scenesa secret world that affects us and over which we have very little control. Spy dramas like James Bond have used the formula of the secret world to great successes, but in the case of Homeland there is a more startling use of this convention to offer us the idea that the stakes of the secret world are much more than an archetypal villain like Goldfinger's plans to destroy the world and James Bonds' efforts to stop him. With Nicholas Brody's rise from war hero to congressman to (had events transpired differently) Vice President, we are shown the real possibility that forces beyond our control could dramatically and negatively affect the course of our lives.