Homeland’s Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) with his magic cell phone.
I think all of us know in our hearts that the drama we see on our big and small screens mostly bears only a passing resemblance to the ‘real world’.
Mostly we are content to accept this. After all, no-one wants to see all action heroes like James Bond or Jason Bourne spending half their allotted time hobbling on crutches or checking into casualty wards.
When there are villains to track down, there is something reassuring about their apparently indestructibility.
Yet, in the light of the recent backlash in some quarters against the Emmy award winning Homeland, it seems that the collective suspension of disbelief doesn’t necessarily stretch to portrayals of new technology. Continue reading
