Homeland just started here too and has won accolades all over. I like Ms Danes (she does that pained/stern look well), always have, ever since Romeo and Juliet.
Didn't know about the Israeli original series, but "young women addicted to shagging older men" is an abstract concept, right?, that really doesn't happen to bassists, does it?
I'll buy the DVD of it when it's out here. Right now I'm watching with Edith something outright corny, "True Blood", that deep down south Vampire series ("I want to do baaaaad things with you ..."). It's full of bad acting, bad interior shots, the worst Southern clichées imaginable, but nicely anit-Evangelical Right ("God hates Fangs!"). Oh, and relatively explicit sex scenes for a US series - golly gosh, what happened to your bigotted prudeness, guys?
No comparison to Homeland of course, True Blood is trash, but it grew on me. Bit like saying you like Black Oak Arkansas!