10 Rebooted TV Shows That Were Better Than The Original

Showtime’s Homeland was a phenomenon when it first debuted, sweeping the Emmy awards and promising a future of smart, grounded television. In the next few seasons that followed, sadly Homeland got away from that before returning to it as of late, but at the centre of Homeland’s faults was always its greatest strength – Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison. And that’s why Homeland is better than the original Israeli series it was based on, Hatufim.

Hatufim – like Homeland’s inaugural season – focused on the story of a prisoner of war coming home and potentially being a brainwashed terrorist, and it was gripping, compelling television. What it wasn’t, however, was well-rounded, because outside of a few select scenes the show was never about more than its main mystery.

Homeland, on the other hand, brilliantly shifted the series’ action onto Carrie’s shoulders and made things even more complicated by making her one of television’s first complex bi-polar characters. This allowed for the season – and series as a whole – to spiral into thrilling and tense directions, and it proved that Homeland the reboot is always better when it remembers who the star is, and when it focuses on Claire Danes’ infamous crying face.