/r/homeland
Subreddit for the award winning psychological and political thriller Showtime series, "Homeland". Homeland stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a CIA operations officer.
To spoiler tag comments, use the following format:
>!Homeland!< will appear as:
Homeland
Rules
No spoilers in titles, especially concerning recent spoilers, and please click the "spoiler" button on any submissions of yours concerning recent (or notable) spoilers
No linking to or requesting streams/torrents/downloads, etc. (no piracy)
Use context for spoiler tags. If someone makes a post asking about season 3, untagged spoilers for season 4 are strictly disallowed unless the OP specifies otherwise. Otherwise expect untagged spoilers up to the latest officially aired episode in any submission or comments section
No excessively uncivil behavior
/r/homeland
Anyone remember what the substance’s called that Dar orders to give Brody to speed up his withdrawals? I remember one of the marines saying it’s outlawed in the US and cause terrible side effects, as we who watched the show saw haha.
I just thought about that scene which I find funny, of course Dar knows all bout that shit and doesn’t give a fck about the side effects it will cause Brody. I think it starts with the letter “I” atleast… much appreciated
I’m at the end of season 6. Are s7 and 8 worth watching even tho Quinn is gone? Is he “present” in them somehow, such as flashbacks or in conversations?
I’m shocked, seriously, I’m emotionally devastated.
Also - why do I see no talks of a Peter Quinn prequel? Is there any hope it might happen?
I'm rewatching seasons 7 and 8 and I just spotted Sally Langston the Vice President in Scandal as President Warner's wife.
Also the troublesome Mr. Sweeney from the Good Wife still troublesome as Senator Sam Paley (season 7), he also appeared on The Americans as one of the KGB illegals.
She was right about Brody, but because she needed “some” and fell in love she lost her love for the country and instead seemed the love of a traitor.
For example when in the car, he picks up the phone starts speaking Russian, because he thinks its his handler... Turns out its one of his UI, who asks what the hell is goin on and is panicking because feds are at the front door. Then yevegny tells him to never call him again. So for example, what would happen to such a guy? Sent to prison?
Season One, Episode Two. He’s in the judge’s office (Michael McKean) and is offered coffee. He takes a metal container out of his pocket and drops two pills (each about the size of a half of a tic-tac) in his cup. Just curious if anyone knows what they could be. Medication maybe? But why would you put that in coffee?
Somehow I missed what this video was about.
People said the show decline in season 3. I will argue that it decline after S2ep5. After one of the best episodes of the show ever, it seem the writers ran out of ideas. The second half of season 2 was horrendous. Dana and timothee subplot, the absurdity of the twist in the finale, jessica, carried being kidnapped and than being let go, etc. You get what I mean. The show never really recover and the quality had been inconsistent ever since then. The good season post season 4 seem like a return to form till the anticlimactic season finale, season 5 had only two good episodes and the rest was mid, series finale being great, etc
S04E07 8:13 and 8:50
Possibly OTC in Pakistan, looks like 2mg too.
spoilers
First I will say that this show is very well written. Claire Danes does a great job with playing Carrie and I’ll give credit on her saving the day time and time again.
She’s done many things that have been upsetting and frustrating to watch as a viewer, but this takes the cake.
I’m on season 7 and the Russian conspiracy is unfolding. After Saul told her to back off and mentioned the conspiracy to her and she’s connected the Dante dots, SHE BRINGS HER CHILD INTO HIS HOME. She puts herself at risk all the time and I’ve come to expect that, but to bring Franny into the home of a suspected Russian agent goes beyond thoughtless.
I’m just angry at her. Until proven otherwise, I think that she needs to lose custody of Franny and Franny should live with her aunt and be in a stable household.
Update: finished the scene where Saul and the SWAT team stormed in on them. Very cringe.
Has anybody watched it? Somewhat similar to homeland, and certainly I think everyone who enjoyed homeland would like it. CIA based, with lots of dodgy goings on. Anyone who has actually seen it, do you agree Joubert kinda gives Tasneem vibes on more extreme scale?🤣
Didn't he use 2 bullets to kill that deer?
S02E06
I was rewatching season 5 and landed on the episode where was speaking to Otto During about Carrie and he brought up the fact that Otto's grandfather was a N@zi and benefitted from the Holocaust. Personally I feel Saul had no right to lecture During about his family ties considering that the Agency he works for, the CIA has recruited well known Nazi war criminals after it's creation in '47. If you don't believe me, search Reinhard Gehlen and the Gehlen organisation and numerous other declassified CIA documents that stated the recruitment of former SS, Gestapo and Wehrmacht soldiers after the division of Germany. Anyway, Gehlen was a Wehrmacht general in the Eastern front during WW2 and surrendered himself to the Americans after the war and his organisation was used by the CIA to spy on the Soviet Union behind the Iron Curtain. The organisation had well known war criminals in the Eastern Front with connections to Hitler's inner circles. All in all, I just needed to rant about this, because this show has a way to point out hypocrisy when least expected and further criticising US foreign policy since the cold war.
What is wrong with the people that run the Emmys and Golden globes. Rupert did an outstanding job with the character and his last season was absolutely heartbreaking. He should have won an award especially for season 6. That's all I have to say he was robbed.
Just a shame acting and dialogues are so poorly written. Oh, and storyline.
I am rewatching season 8 and thinking. This has to be the best drama ever made. I know everybody is all Breaking Bad or Wire. Breaking Bad no, Wire still may be slightly better. And West Wing was a little optimistic but for me it is between West Wing and Homeland.
But my thinking, why Homeland didn't get better recognition than what it did. It dealt with real issues across the board in a realistic way. Mom leaves her kid. The entire show is basically about Muslims and Muslim extremists. Government illegal actions. Domestic terrorism. Pretty much covers every negative thing you can think of, in the best possible way. So I can see it getting a little hate. But man what a great show.
If you were to come up with any show that covers serious shit, what could you possibly come up with that is better than Homeland?
Rewatcing S4 and I just cringe whenever Kiran has screentime. I don't know what is worse, this acting or Dana's incessant hand twirling...
That it was Allison? I can’t remember if I surmised that or even though it. Looking back now, she was always so calm & collected about shit(save for the breach obvs) that it looks like a red flag to me NOW. like, why are you so relaxed after hearing that Ahmed Nazari is alive? lol her arrogance and nonchalant attitude even after being caught is what really made me mad even more.
Unrelated but,, I’m not too big on Jonas. He seems like—he is a good guy but, your ex-CIA girlfriend has told you that she’s being hunted down and you’re giving her ultimatums of “leave with me and go home or it’s over” & telling her that it’s time to call the police. The police. What are they gonna fcking do?? Now..I couldn’t FATHOM someone telling me this but knowing who she is, who she worked for, what her work involved, I wouldn’t doubt her. He lowkey started acting as if she was the dramatic or crazy one. I would have stood by her better than he did. Even if it was at a safe distance bc anyone can be collateral damage, as we saw. When she started mentioning the documents again & he screamed “ENOUGH W THE FUCKING DOCUMENTS!” That was it for me lol he’s washed in my eyes.
Also, Laura is dumb, especially with that marwan situation. Generally, She’s narcissistic, idealistic to a negative effect, and unethical. He spoke of a potential attack that he overhead via known jihadist and she started preaching about war!?! Girl, get TF on..
I started watching Season 8 and am currently at episode 6 ...
Overall, I like Saul for being level-headed and effective. I also like the fictional leader of the Taliban, he has more honor than some of the other players in the game.
Carrie is always really struggling, I find her interesting but stressful to watch; she's prickly and also the good guy, yet has no problem doing whatever it takes in order to get to her goals, and very smart but sometimes makes problematic decisions. I get why her colleagues don't totally trust her; all allegiances are questionable and shifty when everyone's trying to work their advantage, manipulate, or collect or protect information.
I was warming up to the American president, at least he seemed like a decent person. I am so annoyed by the VP who becomes president that I've skipped a few of his scenes out of frustration because his terrible judgment and weakness of character stresses me out. :(
I really like seeing the landscapes of the Middle East. It's beautiful, though the dessert and weather is probably very harsh. It makes me more curious about the culture and history there.
SPOILER WARNING
Guys, Im rewatching this show and idk if this era was as funny to me the first time but I just finished season 3 ep 3 and I was CRYINGGG laughing at how fucked Brody is. Like I might be fucked in the head for this because it's not funny at all but his life is so screwed right now it's become comical to me. I'm wondering if anyone can relate
To refresh anyone's memory Brody is now in Colombia I think, with a bald head, evading capture because he was just framed for the Langley bombing that killed 200+. He's injured and he's been given heroin to numb the pain. He's now denying the heroin and wants to escape. He gets this idea that going to the Mosque will be his ticket out because he thinks the Imam will take him in and help him. The Imam at this mosque plays nice, let's him in, and let's Brody use their shower. Brody's now having the first moment of peace in God knows how long taking a shower, but is ambushed by these cops and is beaten up, still naked. Completely humiliating. And the Imam is just like, you're no Muslim... You're a terrorist. But then comes the people that have been tasked with keeping Brody from being caught and they kill the cops along with any innocents at the mosque including the Imam (because there can't be anyone who knows Brody is there), and take Brody away. So Brody has now failed to escape, gotten innocent people killed, and is forcibly brought back to hiding, has realized there's no way out, and is now in a small cell (reminiscent of his time as a POW). And they're just shitting on him being like this is where you'll sleep, eat and die!! To add insult to injury, in comes the sassy gay drug dealer who's been giving Brody heroin and he just looks at Brody like smh... Everywhere you go people die.. you're like a roach.. the bombs will go off but you'll survive.. you belong here. Brody is so depressed he's just disassociating staring off into space. The drug dealer leaves the cell but leaves behind a tourniquet and a needle with heroin on the floor. The episode ends with Brody tying his arm and shooting up before cutting to black and I am just in tears laughing the whole time at how fucked up his life is. Especially considering hes innocent of the Langley bombing. I don't even hate Brody's character. I don't particularly like him, I just think there's comes a point where your life is so fucked up, you just have to laugh at how unlucky it is. AND they end up killing Brody at some point. Bro just got dealt the worst hand in life. Rip Brody hahahah
And now I am lost. For the last several weeks these characters have been a part of my life. It was an escape from my humdrum existence. The show seemed more real than my real life. (I know, that's not healthy, lol) Now what I do?
I have watched the show a couple of times and these points keep popping in my head.
I know Brody was technically "bad" but was he really that bad. Up to a certain point, say end of season 2, all he really did was ...
On Dana, at first I thought she was cool with Brody, but was she ever? At one point, when they were outside looking at the locks, I thought she was coming back around. And then when she made the "vest" call, I thought she was coming around. But in the end, I guess she always kind of hated him. Did she?
I like the show, but getting back into season 1, that just seemed a little far fetched even for the show. So did Nazir plan for Brody to become a member of congress, just so they can get together for them to be sent down into a bunker so he could use a vest on them? Or maybe the dynamics changed over time, where Brody was in their inner circle and he could use the vest any time when they are al huddled together? But then again it seemed like Walker was primed to shoot, scatter them into the bunker. Was Walker also ready to shoot from that house rooftop near the airport too? What was the point of that scene? If Brody had the vest, why did you need Walker? It made sense only up to the point of the bunker scene but what about times before that when Brody wasn't a congressman. It was exciting tv but a bit of a stretch.
Okay, I’ve started the series over, yet again. 2 questions:
Always something new to ask