Homeland back

[buckjohnson]

Homeland on Sunday.1st season almost perfect, 2nd season had many moments of complet e disbelief and moments of insanity,,,like the Blackberry execution. Spoiler alert... A main antagonist is not on the show for the first two weeks, someone is off their meds again, a daughter storyline is part of the story arc, who is part of family that I wish will go away, AND FINALLY someone is? why the CIA will allow an known terriorist to run for Congress, who try to kill th Veep and other cabniet membes, to have unfetterred access to that VEEP, eventually killing that VEEP with an unadvertised app on a BLACKBERRY...Well Homeland will lose this viewer if such sheninigans persist.

[SammiValentine]

Still a lot more believable than say "24" and a good series to watch IMO. Passes the time anyway. Agreed series 1 was best but tbh the whole idea only sounds like it has a short life span to begin with, am surprised it will make 3 and hopefully this will be the end.

[Stavros]

Oi, mate, no spoilers please! We aren't likely to see Homeland in the UK until its finished over there...mind you there was so much daft nonsense in the last series it will be hard to predict what they get up to this one....

[Prospero]

Yep... will those who have the privilege of seeing this first NOT post things which reveal the ending. This should be a general rule with US TV series - or comments about movies.

[Stavros]

The third series has so far generated a lot of criticism, yet I am still fascinated by it. I like the ambiguity of Brody who clearly wanted to and did help eliminate the VP, but who may have been manipulated by the Jihadi network on the Langley incident -or not: watch that sequence at the end of Series 2 again when he leaves the ceremony to be alone with Carrie but pauses in the middle of a grope as if distressed....because the bomb was late in going off?...

But there are plot holes which look like becoming sink holes into which the series could disappear: what is the point of Jess? Mike we assumed was going to move back in but hasn't been seen; has Carrie explained to Saul that Brody says he wasn't to blame? How can someone like Saul with first hand experience of the Middle East be so abusive to a Muslim woman in a Hijab? And why would the Iranians fund Sunni Muslims to do their dirty work when the drone strikes were not targeted at Shi'a? I enjoy the series as much as The Americans, but the plot holes reduce it to entertainment.

I like Dana by the way, because her storyline is about the damage that is caused to families by political ideology, and she is cute. But as well as her one-dimensional mother what about her brother -is he immune from all this?

So who moved the car?

[benbutton1]

why do people come on a discussion thread for a show and ask for no spoilers??? You're just asking for it by clicking on threads where people want to talk about a show. If you don't want spoiler get out of here lol

[Stavros]

Last night in the UK, the Homeland episode was supposed to feature Brody quietly slipping across the border between Iraq and Iran, but its tv and the plan went awol and a minor bloodbath ensured.

What has irritated and puzzled me is the Iranian angle. The original story line suggested that Abu Nazir was a rogue Jihadi who was being funded by Iran to attack the USA, which doesn't really make sense as Iran is anathema to the al-Qaeda ideology, which also makes Brody's/Saul's 'play' incredible, as if Saul had no idea who the Sunna and the Shi'a might be and how this really does 'play' in the Middle East and South Asia. I suspect this might come from the original Israeli programme, and because in reality Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are more likely to be financing attacks on the USA, in the Middle East or in the 'homeland'. But I suppose if Brody was quietly slipping into Saudi Arabia to assassinate a rich funder of Jihad in the Royal Family there would be an international incident...and anyway, how does assassinating the head of Iranian intelligence and replacing him with an American agent change the Middle East? I enjoy Homeland, I like the music, the writing, the acting and Dana- yes I really do- but it doesn't even come close to reality. Maybe that's why I like it? I also like The Americans on which there isn't a thread.

Please, Americans, no spoilers. We have two weeks to go in the UK.

[bluesoul]

Please, Americans, no spoilers. We have two weeks to go in the UK.

yeah, but aren't you currently the only one spoiling it for anyone that lives in a country where it hasn't already been shown, or anyone that hasn't been keeping up with it in the .uk?

[Stavros]

Oh dear I think I am -apologies if anyone has been let down. Having said that I get the impression that most of the posters here are from the UK and North America but ought not to assume that means they follow it regularly. I have never seen The Sopranos but know what happens in the end, as if that mattered. At least I didn't give away lots of details. Hmmm. Not sure if there is a way out of discussing each episode or a series without giving something away....

[robertlouis]

why do people come on a discussion thread for a show and ask for no spoilers??? You're just asking for it by clicking on threads where people want to talk about a show. If you don't want spoiler get out of here lol

There's your answer.