President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both were soliciting early screeners for the next season, and all eyes were on how Showtime would allow Carrie to strike back at the American traitor who under a guise of concern, both real and manufactured, had convinced her she was crazy and needed to endure electroshock therapy.
Luckily season 2 delivered. But that might be what kept it from being quite so perfect. Nevertheless, in this was still arguably the best show on television. Debuting in the gloomy January following the presidential election, the introduction of President-Elect Elizabeth Keane played by a terrific Elizabeth Marvel suggested the show wildly misjudged the previous election and, like many others, assumed Hillary Clinton was about to be sworn in.
Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! How wrong we were. Yet, more confusingly still, Keane is a victim of election and post-election interference. Now as a political consultant and advocate, Carrie and Homeland unpack some of their past sins of generalization toward Muslim culture with the introduction of Sekou Bah J.
Mallory McCree , an arguable radical with an anti-American government YouTube channel, which is then manipulated by nefarious elements of said government into being a scapegoat and boogeyman. It was a transitional season where Homeland finally began thinking about its own legacy, all while further enriching it with a latter day return to form. The final season of Homeland turned out to be one of its best.
I loved every second. Now at home under stay-at-home orders right now, what is it like for you as viewers see Homeland come to its end after what has been a very emotional and intense run on both sides of the camera? But I do have the real knowledge that we tried as hard as we could.
And when try as hard as you can, and when you give it your all until the very end, you know, you have a lot fewer regrets. I mean, we knew at the end of Season 5, that we were going to end this thing at the end of Season 8. So, we really had three long seasons to figure out where we were going and where we were going to wind up, but that is not to say that any of those well-laid plans were where we wound up going.
You know, in the story, where we were always talking about the finale, all the way through the season. Where might this lead us to? Where might this take us? Where might this resolve? So, you know, we were exploring, investigating, and we did have the luxury of time to figure it out.
So, we were constantly, up to the very last minute, figuring out the story. So, I mean, just unbelievable, what he did in the time allotted. GANSA: What really sold it for me, was the not for sale, advanced copy sticker, on the top right-hand corner. That was so brilliant. It was so brilliant, that it somehow made it also just a work in progress, also, in a way.
Like you were going to have history, personal and otherwise, repeat itself to fulfill the circle…. Well, the season is really founded on two big ideas, and you mentioned one of them, and that is this tactic of putting Carrie in the very last episode, in the very last season, in the same shoes that Brody was in, in the very first season. That idea was born on a bridge in Budapest, at the end of Season 7, when we were all standing around and watching that amazing scene between Claire and Mandy, and all of the sudden, it just struck me that my God, you know, Carrie really is in a very similar situation to Brody — having been in captivity.
Now, Carrie, having been in captivity, and there was a crazily poetic justice to all of the sudden having her be the one under suspicion. What we did in the name of keeping us safe, and which of our values did sacrifice, and how has the counter-terrorism industry you know affected our daily lives, and how does this co-exist with our civil liberties.
So, on those two pillars, the entire season was built. I mean that was the first command. And that really merges into the second thing, which was the entire season and certainly, the series finale, is meant for those fans of the show that have been with us from the very beginning.
GANSA: I mean, all you have to do is look at the first couple of images of the finale to understand that. The entire last season, and certainly, the last episode, was geared for those people that have been with the show. When it bows out on 26 March 3 May in the UK it will be on its 96th episode. The show arrived in with a barnstorming first season that filled the gap left by The premise was a doozy: missing marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody Damian Lewis , who had been presumed dead, is freed from years of imprisonment under terrorist Abu Nazir and returns home a hero.
As Carrie cried conspiracy, it was dismissed as the product of her bipolar disorder. The job she needed to survive was almost certainly going to kill her. It was the tightrope Danes walked each week, and it won her a Primetime Emmy and critical praise. Of course, it was a given that Carrie and Brody would write a bad romance. As brilliant, beautiful and broken as her, he matched her energy every time they faced off. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options.
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