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5. Homeland
"Homeland" took a clever and deceptively simple premise—What if a recovered American P.O.W. had been secretly "turned" by his former captors into an Al Qaeda insurgent?—and developed it into one of the most engrossing and entertaining new series of the year.
With stellar performances by leads Claire Danes, Damian Lewis and Mandy Patankin, "Homeland" has proven an exciting game of cat and mouse, as well as an engaging exploration of post-9/11 paranoia—with just the right number of twists, double-crosses and cliffhangers each week to keep us hankering for more.
