Homeland is more relevant than ever thanks to its prescient focus on ISIS

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"It’s as if the show’s writers … were dictating the newspapers of tomorrow,” says James Wolcott, noting that the Showtime series “precogged what was coming” in Paris. "I don't know if Homeland is the best show on television,” he adds, "whatever that means ... but it's the most important show on TV in 2015, and not just because of its powers of prognostication. It’s gotten under the anxious skin of the here and now with heightened realism rather than by raising a fantasy construct or adding ornate wings to its own mythology."