Homeland on Showtime

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Buck

I thought it worked as an episode. That suicide-bomb switch stuff was pretty intense. Had it ended right after that (at the hour mark) it would have been a great episode, but not a season finale. The extra half hour of stuff wasn't honestly that great. Walker getting killed wasn't a big thing. You knew he was going to die from the beginning. They never developed that character at all. Sure they spent an episode explaining that he loves his kid and calls the house every day, but he had about 20 minutes of screen time total in the season. Killing him wasn't a huge revelation.

I feel that the show played it safe in the finale and failed to take the risk that I expected it to.

Carrie figuring it all out for real just before getting the zap was pretty good.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Carrie figuring it all out for real just before getting the zap was pretty good.

Yup, but it wasn't really an, "Oh shit!" moment.

We all already knew that Carrie knows it's Brody.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Buck

Yup, but it wasn't really an, "Oh shit!" moment.

We all already knew that Carrie knows it's Brody.

That's the thing, since she unwittingly successfully got the daughter to talk Brody down, she's utterly convinced that she had EVERYTHING wrong. That's why she's undergoing ECT. Don't forget she was in love with Brody too. So basically an unstable savante fell in love with someone she was convinced was a terrorist, only to turn out [apparently] he wasn't a terrorist and her conviction that he was has severed all ties to said love.

This is show that rewards paying attention. It can be taxing to keep track of what each character knows or thinks they know and why. But it presents a compelling tapestry where some people are objectively monsters or crackpots or rights violators or terrorists or powermongers, yet when you isolate the information each ACTUALLY has in hand, they are each in turn reacting at the very least quasi-rationally.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Carrie figuring it all out for real just before getting the zap was pretty good.

all she figured out was Brody knew Issa

and if they hadn't sealed the attack she would have figured it out way before that...

that was pretty cool I thought