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

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.

Season 7 was no season 4 but I watched it.

Oleg from The Americans showing up probably the highlight. The episode with the hacker possibly the worst Homeland episode ever.

Glad I'm not the only one who persevered. I'm under no illusions as to its worth/quality, but it's been entertaining enough nonsense overall.

Yeah, that diversion with the hacker was particularly rubbish and annoyingly throwaway - I kept expecting for some twist to bring him back in later in the season, because it seemed utterly pointless otherwise.

Anyone watching this final series?

Not yet, but I will do at some point soon.

same here

Just finished it tonight. What a superb finale to one of the greatest TV shows ever. I'll miss it.

3 episodes in.

Wouldn't dream of posting spoilers here but hold onto your hat, you're in for a ride.

wow that was good

I bet I'm the last person to find out that Zabel is Claire Danes' real life husband!

Season 8 is now on UK Netflix. I'm going in...