Homelamb Is the Parody Nobody Asked For

No other show runs adrenaline through me the way Homeland does. Every episode hits like being pushed out of a plane clutching a live grenade—that specific combination of helplessness and urgency that you can’t look away from even when you know it might kill you. I’ll defend it against the Game of Thrones crowd every single time.

Sesame Street went and made Homelamb, a parody with farm animals, and it is absolutely delightful and also something no child watching the show will understand in any meaningful way. The conceit—sheep as population, barn as surveillance state—is more meta than it has any right to be, and whoever wrote it clearly has a Showtime subscription and a very specific sense of humor. Good for them.