Homeland (showtime)

[Morris Schæffer]

Really love season three. I thought it was kinda amazing how they managed to totally not go into the direction everyone anticipated (a Brody manhunt) and still manage to be gripping and believable enough. Respect too for discarding big 24-style threats and finding the thrill in something smaller, something more intimate, but still keeping the show moving firmly forward. The finale made sense, no last minute heroics, just going where, I suppose, it needed to go. Love one of the penultimate shots of Saul walking out of the building and Carrie looking after him until he's out of sight. I dig these characters even if I do wish Carrie would, just once, follow goddamn orders. Yeah, there's some leaps of faith to be made, but i can accept that if it's not too outlandish and it wasn't.

Why do people complain about Claire Danes' performance? I think it's fab and when she's aggravating it's only because she's supposed to be. Doesn't mean you have to like it of course, but it's still in character.

[transmogrifier]

I thought it was a terrible season.

[EvilShoe]

Most people had problems with Carrie as a character, not Danes' performance. Looks like she'll be in a different place next season, so hopefully they tone down the histrionics.

I thought the season was wildly uneven. At least it became entertaining again once it embraced the silliness, near the end.

[Barty]

So I watched the beginning of this season, the first 5 or so episode were very meh, and I stopped watching. Was told to catch up cause the show got good again, and boy has it ever. The last 4 episodes or so have been flat out spectacular.

[Morris Schæffer]

edit: Just saw your reply Barty. The exact opposite of mine. I guess I should really brace for what's coming next.

5 episodes in, and this is a breathtaking season so far. It manages this amazing feat with still a complete lack of relative action or overly thrilltastic plot twists. These guys are actually, and I'm pumped to be able to say this, spying! Tracking, tagging, taking photographs, overhearing conversations. And how cool to see Art Malik - the bad guy from True Lies and the resistance leader from The Living Daylights - pop up in a small scene with Saul!


SPOILERS!!

The only gripe I had was that I felt it was a bit of a leap on behalf of Quinn, and immediately thereafter Carrie, [spoilers]to assume the guy with the earpiece in the Youtube video (Obviously filmed from about 4 trillion angels) was irrefutable evidence the attack on Bachmann was, as they said, premeditated.[/spoilers] Although I suppose CIA folk are trained to pick up on those details and take them at face value. [spoilers]And I'm also a little hazy on the exact meaning of the Jihadi leader still being alive although that was a good twist. Totally didn't see that coming. Saul should also know better than to enter into toilets alone.[/spoilers]

This is a great season so far.

[Morris Schæffer]

Episode 9!!!!!!!!

[EvilShoe]

I'm at episode 8. Great final five minutes with
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Show Spoiler

Carry guiding Saul back to the terrorists chasing him.

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I'm lacking a bit of a hook, but it's still a show worth watching.

[Morris Schæffer]

Some S5 news:

Carrie will no longer be an intelligence officer,” Gansa revealed, after also mentioning that the new season will take place in Germany. Also, there will be a giant time jump. Two and a half years, in fact. So when the new season premieres on Showtime this September, it'll feature a new place, a new gig, and a new time

I honestly can't wait for this and find it encouraging they're mixing things up.

[Morris Schæffer]

Season 7 was really good.

[transmogrifier]

A three-year gap between posts. Not bad.

[Henry Gale]

And just in time for the final season!

(I don't think I watched after Season 2's finale.)

[transmogrifier]

And just in time for the final season!

(I don't think I watched after Season 2's finale.)

I crawled my way to the end of Season 3 and then dropped it.