http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/10/homeland_season_5_with_claire_danes_reviewed_showtime_s_thriller_didn_t.html

Something is missing from the fifth season of Homeland, the Showtime thriller starring Claire Danes as a bipolar-savant CIA analyst that has lost and regained its footing more times than a gymnast with a charley horse. It’s not just the bit characters, like for-hire surveillers Max and Virgil, who often served as off-kilter foils to the show’s grim main cast, which has been narrowed this season to a core four. Nor do I mean last season’s delicious rogues gallery, which included a balls-out-malevolent Taliban commander and a Pakistani intelligence agent as brilliant and uncompromising as Danes’ Carrie Mathison; this year’s villains almost seem deliberately forgettable. No, the first thing that’s conspicuously absent, at least in the three episodes shared with critics, is Homeland’s opening title sequence, whose antsy trumpet runs and jittery gurgles of feedback placed viewers somewhere between a smoky café and a CIA black site. It was a chaotic, free-jazzy, attention-jolting table-setter to a show that often thrived—at least when it wasn’t completely bonkers—on Carrie’s chaotic, free-jazzy, utterly diverting spycraft.