Homeland is having a bit of a streaming comeback, but the chatter about The Game returning has gotten muddled. The series reportedly coming back isn’t the BBC’s 2014 Cold War drama The Game. It’s Channel 5’s newer thriller, which happens to have the same title.
Showtime’s Homeland aired from 2011 to 2020 and ran for eight seasons. Its post-9/11 story follows CIA officer Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, as she investigates Nicholas Brody, a U.S. POW played by Damian Lewis who may have been turned. The show still lands because of the paranoia running through it and the psychological pressure it puts on everyone involved.
Critics stayed on its side, too. Homeland holds an 85% score on Rotten Tomatoes overall, with season 1 at 100% and season 8 at 85%, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
Some of the renewed attention comes from the larger spy-TV wave. Slow Horses is sitting at 100%, Ponies at 94%, again according to Rotten Tomatoes, and The Agency is back as well. Homeland also has the extra draw of being adapted from Gideon Raff’s Prisoners of War, before Raff went on to The Spy and The Red Sea Diving Resort.
If you’ve burned through the newer espionage hits and want something else in that lane, Homeland is still a very solid pick.
As for The Game, the BBC’s 2014 version, a six-part Cold War drama that was canceled in 2015, isn’t the one coming back.
The renewed series is Channel 5’s 2025 psychological thriller The Game, starring Jason Watkins and Robson Green. Reports say season 2 is already filming for a late-2026 return on Channel 5, followed by an early-2027 run on BritBox.
And that “8-part” description probably refers to Ponies, the eight-episode spy drama set in 1977 Moscow.
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