Narrative Neal

How does it fit into Homeland 

Mise-en-scene

Guns
Blood
Detectives
CIA/Conference room
Families
Drugs
Explosions
Dark interrogation room, bright landscapes
Mid shots,Establishing shots,Over shoulder shots
Female lead detective with bipolar

Narrative

Family Affairs
Secretive
Crime
Interrogation
Dramatic
Unexpected
Political
Military
Phycological

Generic/stock characters 

Detectives
CIA
Police
Double agent
Politician

Theme

New York
Baghdad
CIA base

Evaluate the relevance of Neal's Genre Theory to long term television drama

Neals genre theory is the concept that genres have ideas shared through different platforms by producers and audience for example traditional props, settings, character types are shared although the genre theory leans to evolving these ideas to have a similar concept complicated by the evolved values. 

Neal's Genre Theory is used as well as evolved in homelands as it uses traditional blood, guns and agents but with its own twist in this case it is Carrie as they have a female head detective playing towards modern day gender roles who has Bipolar adding its own twist into the mix. A lot of the stereotypical strings are there for example the interrogation rooms with dark tones and a big bright city full of distractions and clues to cause some spin off episodes complicating the story further showing evolution. 

The narrative has changed a lot following less of the stereotypical theme with a pile of added genres such as political drama because of the reference to 9/11 and terrorism, Phycological drama due to Carries mental state and military drama because of Brodie's past as well as following the traditional crime drama. 

The themes are similar to traditional crime drama as it is based in a large city in this case New York but differs in the way that Baghdad was shown in the first episode but goes back to being at an average setting when it comes to the CIA bases.