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Showtime brought Claire Danes back to our televisions and we are grateful. But Homeland is a show you won’t watch just for Danes — at least not after the first episode. Danes plays Carrie Mathison, a rule-breaking CIA agent, often at odds with her boss. Unknown to the agency, she has mental problems and takes antipsychotics. In her last mission gone awry, Carrie heard that an American prisoner had been “turned,” but thought no POWs were alive and didn’t report the intelligence. Now, however, Sgt. Nick Brody (Damien Lewis) has been found in an Afghan prison after eight years of torture.