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Claire Danes
Showtime Chief on 'Homeland': Eerie Real-World Parallels Heightened Drama of Comeback Year

"Homeland" wrapped a comeback year Sunday by returning its full focus to the United States' maneuvers in the big scary world of geopolitical chess in the Middle East. SPOILER ALERT: Stop reading if you haven't seen "Homeland's" season finale, "Long Time Coming." The show's fourth season was eerily and tragically prescient about real-world events throughout its 12-episode run, right down to the season finale that aired five days after Taliban gunmen slaughtered 148 people, most of them children, at a Pakistani military school. It's taken as a given that "Homeland" stumbled from its own high bar in season three as the...