staradvertiser.com FEBRUARY 9 - 15, 2020 HOME SWEET HOME Recovering after months of brutal confi nement in a Russian gulag, Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) is recruited one last time by her longtime on-again, off-again friend, foil, boss and national security advisor Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), who is sent to the Middle East to help negotiate peace in the season premiere of the eighth and fi nal season of Showtime’s Homeland. Premiering Sunday, Feb. 9, on Showtime. WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE LIVE @ THE LEGISLATURE Join Senate and House leadership as they discuss upcoming legislation and issues of importance to the community. TUESDAY, 8:30AM | CHANNEL 49 | olelo.org/49 olelo.org ON THE COVER | HOMELAND The end is near ‘Homeland’ gears up for its returns after a two-year hiatus on Sunday, ploring current political situations and heads final mission Feb. 9. back to the Middle East. Based on the Israeli series “Prisoners of As Season 8 opens, Carrie is still recover- War,” “Homeland” took the world by storm ing after months of brutal confinement in a By Francis Babin when it premiered in 2011. The Showtime Russian gulag, while Saul is now the national TV Media drama was immediately an immense success security advisor to newly elected President with its gripping and compelling storyline of Warner (Beau Bridges, “Messiah”). Looking to udiences and critics alike often com- Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis, “Billions”), end the “forever war” in Afghanistan, the new, plain about the state of the film industry a U.S. Marine sergeant who was missing in ambitious president sends Saul to the Middle Aand its heavy reliance on remakes, but action but returns to his home after years East in order to negotiate with the Taliban. no one seems to bat an eye at the same situ- in captivity. His sudden return sets off Needing help in the hostile territory, Saul, ation happening in the world of television. Per- alarm bells for Central Intelligence Agency against everybody’s advice, reaches out to haps it is because there is just so much original operations officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Carrie for help one last time. She has extensive content on the small screen and streaming Danes, “A Kid Like Jake,” 2018), who tries to experience in the region and still has numerous services (more than 500 original series in convince her mentor, Saul Berenson (Mandy contacts and allies, including Tasneem Qureshi 2019 alone) that they just get lost in the shuf- Patinkin, “Life Itself,” 2018), and colleagues (Nimrat Kaur, “Wayward Pines”), a member of fle. Nevertheless, some of the most popular of an impending attack. To complicate mat- Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. Though, and well-received hits of the last couple of ters, Carrie has bipolar disorder, making her with a fragmented memory and her loyalty in decades have been remakes of foreign an unreliable narrator. question, it is uncertain how much assistance series. Carrie, Saul and the show itself she will be able to provide. Furthermore, many of these have come a long way since that While promoting the final season at the imports, such as HBO’s first season. After wrapping up Television Critics Association media tour “Euphoria” and “In Treatment,” the Brody arc, the series switched panel, executive producer and showrunner as well as the award-winning gears to tackle a multitude of Alex Gansa (“24”) said the series is going spy drama “Homeland,” have real-world topics like botched back to its roots as opposed to mirroring the come from Israel. Why does drone strikes, jihadi attacks political situation in Washington, D.C., like the small desert nation pro- on Europe, the election of a the last two seasons. He added that the final duce so many programs that female president and other season looks to echo the first one and wrap attract western audiences? hot-button issues. up many loose ends from the fourth season, Nobody really knows, According to rewarding longtime fans who never got an- but while we stew on Showtime, the swers to their burning questions. It will focus that question, you final season on the relationship between Carrie and her can catch the globe- continues ex- longtime, on-again, off-again friend, foil and trotting action of the boss, Saul. The relationship between mentor eighth and final sea- Nimrat and protege has always been the heart of son of Showtime’s Kaur in series, and in the final episodes it will finally “Homeland” “Homeland” when it come to a head. 2 STAR CHANNELS FEBRUARy 9 - 15, 2020 ON DEMAND Songs of the heart ‘High Fidelity’ reboot premieres on Valentine’s Day WHAT’S NEW ON HULU (“Girls”), David H. Homes (“Mindhunter”) and has gone from fake to real, and life seems great Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“People of Earth”). After ... until John Ambrose McClaren (Jordan Fisher, “High Fidelity” running into her ex-boyfriend, Rob decides “Liv and Maddie”) shows up on Lara Jean’s door- to re-examine her “Top 5 Most Memorable step after receiving one of her love letters. Many people will be familiar with the romantic Heartbreaks” in an attempt to figure her life comedy “High Fidelity” (2000), which starred out and get over her ex. Whether you’re single John Cusack as a reclusive, 30-something or in a relationship, this is the perfect choice to “Cable Girls” Season 5 Part 1 record store owner evaluating his past rela- watch on Valentine’s Day when it premieres. tionships and was based on the novel by Nick Don’t miss the dramatic fifth and final season Hornby. On Friday, Feb. 14, this story gets a of “Cable Girls,” aka “Las chicas del cable,” gender-flipped revival as it comes to Hulu in WHAT’S NEW ON NETFLIX when it premieres Friday, Feb. 14. The series this new series. Zoe Kravitz (“Big Little Lies”) follows the lives of Lidia (Blanca Suarez, “The “To All the Boys: P.S. 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Season 5 is set to jump ahead several “The Fosters”), one of the recipients of her let- years to the mid-1930s and focus on the wom- ters, in order to make his ex jealous and stop en now living in a country divided by civil war. her best friend from thinking she’s in love with Catch Part 1 of this exciting final series when it Zoe Kravitz stars in “High Fidelity” him. Now, Lara Jean and Peter’s relationship premieres this Friday. Friday, 4 STAR CHANNELS FEBRUARy 9 - 15, 2020 ON DEMAND Songs of the heart ‘High Fidelity’ reboot premieres on Valentine’s Day WHAT’S NEW ON HULU (“Girls”), David H. Homes (“Mindhunter”) and has gone from fake to real, and life seems great Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“People of Earth”). After ... until John Ambrose McClaren (Jordan Fisher, “High Fidelity” running into her ex-boyfriend, Rob decides “Liv and Maddie”) shows up on Lara Jean’s door- to re-examine her “Top 5 Most Memorable step after receiving one of her love letters. Many people will be familiar with the romantic Heartbreaks” in an attempt to figure her life comedy “High Fidelity” (2000), which starred out and get over her ex. Whether you’re single John Cusack as a reclusive, 30-something or in a relationship, this is the perfect choice to “Cable Girls” Season 5 Part 1 record store owner evaluating his past rela- watch on Valentine’s Day when it premieres. tionships and was based on the novel by Nick Don’t miss the dramatic fifth and final season Hornby. On Friday, Feb. 14, this story gets a of “Cable Girls,” aka “Las chicas del cable,” gender-flipped revival as it comes to Hulu in WHAT’S NEW ON NETFLIX when it premieres Friday, Feb. 14. The series this new series. Zoe Kravitz (“Big Little Lies”) follows the lives of Lidia (Blanca Suarez, “The “To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You” stars this time as the cynical record store Boarding School”), Carlota (Ana Fernandez, owner, Rob, and is joined by co-stars Jake Lacy On Wednesday, Feb. 12, the adorably awkward “The Protected”), Marga (Nadia de Santiago, Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor, “Deadly Class”) “Love in Difficult Times”) and Angeles (Maggie is back in this sequel to the popular 2018 film Civantos, “Vis a vis”), who work as switchboard “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” The first film operators in Madrid in the late 1920s. Over the saw Lara Jean’s younger sister send out private last four seasons, the women have faced nu- love letters Lara Jean had written to get over merous hardships, not only as working women, her crushes. As a result, Lara Jean entered into but within their families and relationships as a fake relationship with Peter (Noah Centineo, well.