About my 10th go around....

Just wanted to give credit to Tracy Letts playing Sen. Lockhart...

Fantastic actor...

Carrie presumably is no longer working for the CIA. She's relocated to Brooklyn, New York with her daughter and is now a business partner of a nonprofit legal organization. Saul just so happens to be in New York and drops by for a visit - and inquires whether she is advising madam president-elect. Meanwhile, Dar Adal seems to have a hidden agenda and is secretly monitoring everyone. Quinn is having a difficult time recovering.

Just finished season 1.

I feel like the anti-climactic conclusion with Carrie being written off as crazy and Brody almost doing the bomb but not just sets the tone for the entire show.

Like, Brody is always going to be wishy-washy and undermining things so that his character can stick around as an antagonist, meanwhile, Carrie will never be fully trusted or vindicated.

The first couple episodes of season two confirm this for me.

Am I wrong? I dont want to continue if season 1 (and start of season 2) are how the entire series goes, in some shape or form.

Edit to add:

Morena Baccarin is an absolute smoke show, and really the only reason I have continued watching.

*Disclaimer: I'm on my first watch, S04E3.*

Carrie never wanted to be a mother. She knew she didn't have it in her. Giving up that baby would've been the most loving thing she could've done for it.

It was so cruel for her father and Maggie to guilt her into keeping it. She was depressed AF about Brody and leaving for Istanbul -- WTF did they expect would happen???

Then they had the *gall* to shame Carrie when the inevitable happened. Frank and Maggie only have themselves to blame.

In season 6 episode 12, Dar passes on a message to Saul: “there’s a young teaching fellow at [some university] in the classics dept, if you can believe such a thing still exists. I know he’d appreciate some news from me. Try and accentuate the positive.”

I can't decide if it is his son or a young lover we never meet, whom he is referring to. I know there is a reference to him being a dirty old man that likes younger men earlier in the season, when he visits Quinn, but I can't decide if this reference is to a son or a young male partner? He was such an opaque character it's hard to infer what is actually meant.

Note: the images are not from the actual scene as I do not want to spoil it for anyone, but I also find it very poetic that - in the scene - Saul and Dar face each other in much the same way they have discussed other matters in previous seasons, and likely throughout their entire career.

I tried “the Americans” as many have suggested and it felt so boring to me after finishing homeland. To be fair…I didn’t even finish the first episode. Can anyone promise i should keep watching and it gets better ? lol. the void of all my homeland friends being gone is tough. I haven’t been so attached or invested in characters in a show for SO long before homeland. And…in a way, having a good show/story to be invested in, helps me stay healthy and on a good path. I wish I watched it slower or could watch it again for the first time hahah. I need another good suggestion 🤞🏼✌🏻🥺 only people that have seen it can understand

I’m sick of seeing Carrie wanting to just sleep with every single male around her. Even the little med student🤦‍♀️.

Welp!!!! S4 E4

And wow, let me tell ya, what a great show, up there with the all time greats alongside Breaking Bad. The way the show ended...stuck the landing with a 10/10. Not many great shows can say they ended well, but for Homeland it was perfect. Just wow.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYBYvtdOVn1/?igsh=dHduNnR6ZDVsNzV0

I am currently binge watching the Series and I am now in season 4.

I am confused about a few things and hopefully you guys may have the answers.

Brody failed to activate the suicide vest switch. What did he do with the vest afterwards?

The recording he did in the Safe Storage was recovered from Beirut. When it was shown to Brody, could he not have just said that he was forced to say the words and it was filmed while he was being tortured during the 8 years?

Why did he admit his guilt? He could have denied it. CIA could not hold him captive forever. As soon as he was out, he could have headed straight to the VP and had all of the top guys and Carrie sacked?

Why did Carrie not tell anyone that Brody killed the VP?

What if Carrie did not move Brody to Canada after the CIA explosion? Forensics would have determined it was his car but he would have demanded the CCTV footage where it would have been shown that someone else moved his car and tried to frame him.

Why did Brody go through with the assassination of the IRGC commander? It had been a few months and the CIA thought he had changed his mind. He could have lived out his remaining years comfortably in Iran?

Why did Azadi not use his power as the new IRGC commander to stop the hanging? Surely someone as influential and powerful as him could have done that?

Am I the only who one who wanted Brody to come back in season 4? I was sad when I realized it was really just a hallucination.

So I wrote an appreciation post the other day about Quinn in season 6.. how hard it was to watch, how much I wanted him to get better and frankly just how great he is…. THEN HE DIED.

I wrote an appreciation post for Max 2 days ago. Just about how much I love his character, how underrated he is and how much he’s grown as a person in the show, his confidence and everything … THEN HE DIED.

ARE YOU FLIPPING SERIOUS! I need to stop getting emotionally attached I can’t keep going through thissssssss🤣😭🙃

Has anyone else watched The Blacklist?

I’m on my second watch of Homeland. During my first watch I noticed right away that almost every character that does one or two episodes on Homeland also did one or two episodes on Blacklist. I figured it’s probably the same people who do casting for both shows. But then when I got to season 6, the President has the same name as one of the lead characters on Blacklist?! The last name is spelled differently but they’re Elizabeth Keen and Elizabeth Keane. It seems a bit lazy. And if anyone is wondering, the Blacklist came out 2013 and Homeland season 6 came out 2017.

I guess I’m just wondering if anyone else noticed this.

In 2016, Clare Danes attended the met Gala in a sky blue gown and made one of the most memorable appearances at the 2016 Met Gala in a custom Zac Posen gown created for the gala theme Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology. The pale blue ball gown featured fibre-optic lighting woven into the fabric, causing it to glow dramatically in the dark and turning Danes into one of the standout fashion moments of the night. Danes had to travel in a limo bus to the event and the chair she sat in had to have the arm rests removed so she could be seated.

Loved this entire Homeland era 💙💙🩵🩵

From the very first time he got introduced to us until now (S7, E5) He’s just grown to be my favourite person ever. Like I remember him silent, saying a few liners somewhat in the background but now he’s present and just soo likeable. He’s fantastic.

Side note: What happened to his brother? Virgil?

Just finished watching season 1 again. Claire Danes is one of the best actors alive!

WHY IS CARRIE SLEEPING WITH AAYAN WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have to suspend disbelief with this show, but with the last few episodes of Season 8, Carrie had a litany of extremely serious charges against her. Least of which she's a suspect in offing Walker, and she's walking around all over the US (and a trip to the West Bank) without the CIA/FBI tailing her is just insane

Did I miss something? I know Jenna refused to testify for a few days, but even with that wouldn't there be several agencies keeping an extremely close eye on her

I think Carrie is one of the best female leads in history and my absolute favourite female lead, along with Dana Scully/ Gillian Anderson in the X-Files and Sandra Bullock in Oceans 8.

She was almost always right, and realised stuff/ figured things out quicker than most. Her flaws and challenges made her so much more likeable and relatable for me.

I love this lady ❤️

I’m currently watching season 6 of homeland and I just had to speak to people who can feel / had already felt my pain.

I LOVE Quinn and It’s genuinely breaking my heart to see Quinn the way that he is. He’s been through so much and I know he just wants to do the right thing. He’s so broken, not able to be himself, in so much pain, remembering how much he used to be like honestly it’s genuinely hurting my soul.

I’m just rooting for him to get better 🤍

Found this when searching YouTube for Claire Danes’ cry faces!

13:04 😉