showtime's Homeland =[a tolerable claire danes, mandy patinkin & that girl from firefly naked]

i'm really enjoying it! i just saw the one where brody goes to carrie's home and asks her to keep her mouth shut about the weekend in the cabin. after he leaves and she starts crying, but she puts her arm over her eyes even though there's no one there to see her crying? classic. she does go pretty berserk sometimes but i like her character.

For some reason I stuck with this show. Seasons 4-5 are pretty consistent quality-wise imo, if you're still watching at this stage you know what you're getting .

I just watched whatever the latest season is. Season 5.
S3 was the low point, then they stopped dragging out and spoiling what made it good in the first place and just made it a solid 24/Spooks type affair. S4 was pretty gripping I seem to remember.

Oh in one of the episodes I just watched, Claire Danes says 'go. go now' yay!!

i'm in season 3 now and i understand what you mean by frustrating. constant in-n-out of 'nuthouse' + venezuelan highrise slum-squat + boring story about depressed teen/her troubled bf and her BORING BORING BORING mother she doesn't get along with

i'm kind of surprised by how extremely boring the mom character is (and mike too tbh, they are both so bland!)

i will also admit to being invested in the romantic storyline for a while

the depressed teen storyline reminded me of the Michael Douglas' daughter storyline from Traffic

Seasons 4 & 5, post Brody, were the best of the lot imo

Agreed!

Also, has anyone else seen Prisoners of War -- the Israeli show Homeland was based on?

Michael Douglas' daughter storyline from Traffic
totally, down to "severely bershon actress"although i think she wears it well
it's just not an interesting story to me

are they intentionally turning jessica into more of a bitch? are we just seeing a different side of her now that her high school boyfriend/husband/terrorist roommate is on the lam/dead? they made her so matronly once he started running for office. oh! and i noticed that claire danes has stopped using that weird product that makes your eyelashes grow. i kept wondering what was different about her face and i think it's the eyelashes going back to normal.

i am still watching it but i also find the new analyst pretty dull which basically makes everyone on the show dull except for carrie. i still have enjoyed watching it so far but if it stays like this eehh maybe not

thank you for introducing me to the word bershon

whatever

haha

idgi?

https://www.flickr.com/groups/bershon/

the internet is a big place

ok i have now watched it all
kinda annoyed at the "carrie is humanized/saved from her demons thanks to the miracle of reproduction" theme but other than that it was enjoyable enough.
felt relieved not to have to watch that poor kid who played brody jr grow up on camera anymore, no more bland mike-n-jess moments

new season! aww poor Quinn

liking it

well that got real dumb real fast

after a certain point it becomes clear that Carrie's main career asset is her complete lack of shame in asking for favors from people who owe her nothing, because she has screwed up massively and the results of her bad judgement are going to mostly affect other people, not her

and Saul's main deal is that he has a death wish and apparently surrounds himself with inattentive morons, to make him look like some kind of super-spy detective. With a massive death wish.

Quinn is just a poor schmuck who is too good for all of these assholes, but clearly hates himself.

Real Truth guy is so loathsome. And somehow reminiscent of Jay from Inbetweeners.

We need to catch up and finish this season. At this point it's like gross medicine we have to take in order to get this Dar Adal out of our throat

I stopped watching because I got bored and the drama seemed to revolve around MY DAUGHTER! and a convoluted story I couldn't follow. I really enjoyed the first few seasons but I don't really recognize this show anymore.

It was a weird, disjointed season, and the ending/President-Elect character seemed to be Saying Something, but it wasn't that interesting. Quinn storyline was quite affecting.

I only got on board with this after Quinn got sarin'ed and the Berlin train thing happened so I'm sure I'm missing a lot of history... but whats the deal with the ending - is the new Prez some kind of evil? When Dar said "theres something unamerican about her" was there more than he was letting on - shes a spy or something!?

god I hate the way this show makes you so flippin' worried about all the characters

also how many years did they spend setting up Dar to be the villain? like 4?

he's not a villain he's a patriot of the deep state trying to stop the unstable new president.

the last bit of the finale was .... uh, what?

It was also funny how in that postscript bit (the six weeks later part), she was all, "I'll get my kid back one of these days nbd"

I figured it was a setup for her to run for congress next season

the Homeland - Veep convergence is finally here

VEEPLAND

only on SHBOWTIME

it seemed to me, apart from the wtf arrests, like it's a setup for "let's get the gang back together and break our former friends out of jail" tour de force

uh, that should have read, considering the wtf arrests, not apart from

sure, but which parts of the gang aren't dead or in jail?

Carrie and Max

Just finished S2 and S3 in relatively quick succession and I'm still enjoying it. Admittedly I don't hold it to very high account, but that means there's been more than enough genuinely good parts for me to forgive or ignore the numerous failings.

Eager to see where it goes post-Brody and glad to see that the consensus here seems to be that S4+5 are worth watching.

Ooft, season 4 really goes for it! I'm about two-thirds of the way and have been blind-sided at least twice already.

Ha... and again! That episode 4.11 twist was maybe a step too far for me - I actually laughed more than anything.

need mod to remove ‘tolerable’ from thread title

also the ‘that girl naked’ part probably

it was great when they hired some graffiti artists to add visual authenticity to a Euro set and they wrote loads of derogatory stuff about them like "Homeland is watermelon" in Arabic. Although I'd have used much stronger terms of abuse than that tbh.

I didn't understand Dar Adal's explanations in the season 4 finale at all, but I guess this whole strand continues through season 5.

Didn't they write that Homeland was racist? https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/15/homeland-is-racist-artists-subversive-graffiti-tv-show

"The graffiti on the left says: ‘Freedom … now in 3D’. The one on the right says: ‘Homeland is watermelon’ (which is slang for not to be taken seriously)."

from yr link under the pic.

Ah, sorry, I only skim re-read the link before posting. Calling it racist is at least clear and direct criticism, if lacking in swear words.

I wonder if they though that writing 'Homeland =[a tolerable claire danes, mandy patinkin & that girl from firefly naked]' in Arabic was both two seasons too late and rather denigrating to Morena Baccarin.

I'm sure it's not a original idea, but I would very much watch a Peter Quinn offshoot series or origin film.

Finished season 6.

I preferred 4 & 5, but it was still passable and Rupert Friend was absolutely fantastic.

Finished season 7, which I wasn't keen on.

Assuming spoilers are ok at this point...

I really missed Quinn.

In season 8 they could mirror how things began with Brody by having Saul begin to suspect that Carrie has been turned by the Russians during the months she was held there apparently going crazy through lack of medication.

Apparently Yevgeney is going to back in S8, so Russia will still feature somehow.

Season 8? Fucking hell.

*going to be back

xpost Ha, had the exact same thought before I saw your post. This thing was sputtering halfway through the first season, what the shit.