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Homeland – Season 6, Episode 5 Casus Belli

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Homeland – Season 6, Episode 5

Casus Belli

Aired Feb 18, 2017

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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Keane is sidelined; Carrie's work follows her home.

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Tense, emotional, and reminiscent of earlier Homeland episodes, "Casus Belli" returns its leading lady to the tense, high-stakes storytelling in which she truly thrives.

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Peter Quinn

F. Murray Abraham

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Elizabeth Marvel

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James Donaghy

Guardian

With her legal advocacy likely shut down for the time being, we can look forward to Carrie back where she does her best work -- out on a limb, flouting authority and seeing who the real enemy is.

Feb 21, 2017

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Aaron Riccio

Slant Magazine

"Casus Belli" moves with alarming alacrity, hurtling forward without giving its characters a chance to reconsider their positions or de-escalate tensions.

Feb 21, 2017

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Shirley Li

Entertainment Weekly

It's a solid episode, planting the seeds for the latter half of the season and raising intriguing questions but also raising some red flags that don't completely fit into the picture.

Rated: B+

Feb 20, 2017

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Ethan Renner

Baltimore Sun

The tense hostage situation made this an exciting hour, but there was surprisingly little in the way of plot advancement in this episode. I am in favor of smaller, slower storytelling in theory, but... Let's pick up the pace, Homeland.

Feb 22, 2017

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David Crow

Den of Geek

Homeland delivers a high stakes episode that completely upends everything from the past four episodes, if not even the past several seasons.

Rated: 4.5/5

Feb 20, 2017

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Matt Brennan

Paste Magazine

Showtime's long-running drama [is] as compelling now as at any point since the end of its first season.

Rated: 7.8/10

Feb 20, 2017

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Synopsis

Keane is sidelined; Carrie's work follows her home.

Screenwriter: Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa, Gideon Raff
Network: Paramount+ with Showtime
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Feb 18, 2017