![]() When Brody has fixed the suicide vest and is going to pull the cord, Dana calls! I'm sure they'd put her right through in a national security crisis. Carrie, shaken that she was wrong about Brody, voluntarily undergoes ECT treatment. Brody convinces Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban) to take a more peaceful path in their terrorist operation - and then shoots Walker. Work.īrody is still intent on blowing up Walden. (The way he looks, by the way? I would be so sure he was about to vomit that I would have gotten as far away from him as possible, and therefore would live!) (I was more sympathetic when I re-watched poor Dana.)Īt the end of the episode, a shaking, sweating, ready-to-die Brody is all set to carry out the suicide mission. She has to engage in extensive begging that Brody not go to the announcement - “I still think that you should stay here" on endless repeat - and I do recall wishing for Dana's death when I first saw this episode. I actually think that Morgan Saylor is a good actress faced with a fairly impossible task on Homeland, but this thread does her no favors. Having walked in on Brody engaged in Muslim prayer, coupled with some other weird behavior on his part, Dana has become suspicious of and worried for her father. She’s never going to set foot in Langley again.” IF ONLY, SAUL.Ĭarrie gets out of the house and starts snooping around the area where the vice president's event is going to be. Saul about Carrie: “We shouldn’t kid ourselves. Sniper and fellow terrorist Tom Walker creates the crisis that forces Walden, Brody, and the cabinet into a bunker that would be the perfect spot for Brody to blow shit up.ġ) Most ridiculous line knowing what we know from Season 2: Brody is armed with a suicide vest to take out Vice President Walden (Jamey Sheridan) at a big, public event where he announces he's running for president. She's supposed to be sequestered in her home under the care of family and friends (of course, she doesn't really have friends, but Saul and Virgil are around). This introduction was updated after the finale.Ĭarrie has gone off her medication and had a break as a result. And since what drives me crazy is subjective, please offer your best and worst Homeland moments in the comments section! Off we go… I'm starting with the two-part finale from Season 1 - when I got a sinking feeling! - and going through every episode of the second season. I've spoiled the finale already, but I'll reiterate: if you care about spoilers and are not caught up, read no further. I have attempted to trace the problem in a list of moments during which Homeland fell apart for me. I'm hardly alone it's difficult to measure real viewer feelings through social media, but both critics and ordinary viewers seem, at the very least, less enamored of the show than during its superlative, Emmy-winning first season. While I very much look forward to liking Homeland again, can I like these people again? God, I hope so. Worse, though, it has made me dislike the lead characters: Carrie is awful (selfish, pigheaded, terrible at her job), and Saul is useless. ![]() While I never thought of Homeland as a document of realism, it has filled its hours with such nonsense that I've been stupefied by the decision-making. I found this season meandering, maddening, and unintentionally funny. Saul, meanwhile, provided the spine of the finale he is bereft, but also empowered. It sets up a third season that could have Brody in it, but really should not. Brody is now exposed to the world as the terrorist he was (or possibly is), and though Carrie could have disappeared with him, she is going back inside: "I'm going to clear your name, Brody," she vows. Instead, in a twist that truly did surprise me, a car bomb – presumably orchestrated by Abu Nazir's organization – laid waste to a significant portion of the main cast. I was looking for Brody to double-cross Carrie, and force them into a situation in which she would have to take him out I was wrong. And – stop reading now if you have not watched Sunday's finale – Brody is still with us going into Season 3.Īs it turns out, Homeland is a love story instead of a spy thriller. ![]() Yes, we love Damian Lewis, but Brody needed to go Carrie (Claire Danes) and Saul ( Mandy Patinkin) would then move onto another challenge in Season 2. Here's the thing about Homeland: Brody should have died (blown himself up, or blown himself and the vice president up, or blown himself and his daughter up, or been caught and killed by Carrie and/or Saul) at the end of Season 1.
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