is anyone still watching it?
I never confused Homeland with the Wire or the Sopranos, but it was a good, entertaining show.
it's almost like it's a parody now, it's beyond awful. I keep waiting for an episode to come along and validate the start to this season, something that makes me say, Ok I see why they made me suffer through 'that'. Nope.
I don't think season's one and two of Homeland were as good as Dexter seasons 1 and 2, but the drop-off to now is Dexter-like. I can't remember any decent show getting this bad without something explainable. I thought seasons 1 - 4 of Homeland were pretty good, 5 and 6 watchable, but 7, holy shit they should be ashamed of themselves.
did they change writers? run out of plot?
After watching a show this long I usually see it through to the end out of hate (I call it hate watching b/c I have so much invested), but I might need to bail on this one.
Looking forward to Billions starting up in 2 weeks at least.
Post-Brody, I stuck around largely for the Quinn story and Dar and Saul to a degree.
But it's just dreadful now, and I feel done too.
Her having a kid was the downfall of the show, IMO.
has been dragging along lifeless for almost 3 seasons now, so terrible.. i hate myself that i cant stop tuning in every sunday for more terrible acting by carrie mathison.
I love the Saul character, but his story line is heading in the shitter as well. I think the Brody/Carrie dynamic is what put this show on the map. Once Brody died, they should have introduced a new set of characters and story lines. They tried too hard to tie parallel real life instances (the election season was just brutal) into the show.
Last season was bad almost as bad as season 3.
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Carrie is a Mom now? LOL.
The thing is the latter part of last season picked up and had a few quality shows - shows i want to say 6 through 9 (after an incredibly slow start to the season) -- but then they went and ruined everything with maybe the most absurd ending in television history.
They havent recovered this year - the show either needs to be put out to pasture or they need to remove Claire Danes from the producer role, just have her act, and find writers/producers who know what they're doing from here.
Or if they're oblivious and think it's a masterpiece.
I mean, they have to know, right?
I won't get in to too many spoilers, but the whole Carrie plot is beyond ridiculous, the right-wing zealots plot was so predictable, the President is a caricature, her Chief of staff or whatever he is, is so unrealistic it's beyond unbelievable, and Saul is only really best when he's "playing" against interesting adversary (like Dar). I'm going to just DVR it and if I get really bored maybe will watch, but probably not.
I'm looking forward to Billions too. Seems like between HBO and SHO when Sundays used to be a DVR juggle there is nothing new that is very compelling, and I don't watch a lot of TV to begin with.
Each previous season had at least one "holy shit" episode - CIA office blown up, embassy in mid east blown up etc. Not feeling the Waco type "shootout" - over in a blink. I hope this is not the last season, but it could be!
Exactly how I feel. They did a great job reinventing the show after Brody for a couple seasons, but it hit the wall last season. I’ve tried to get through the first episode of this season twice and both times lost interest and gave up.
I hate to go there, but the PC effect killed the show in a way. They’re afraid to make Islamic terrorists the bad guys anymore, so now they’ve turned evil government/CIA officials into the bad guys.
There are some legit storylines to explore there, but they choked on it last season
Exactly how I feel. They did a great job reinventing the show after Brody for a couple seasons, but it hit the wall last season. I’ve tried to get through the first episode of this season twice and both times lost interest and gave up.
I hate to go there, but the PC effect killed the show in a way. They’re afraid to make Islamic terrorists the bad guys anymore, so now they’ve turned evil government/CIA officials into the bad guys.
There are some legit storylines to explore there, but they choked on it last season
Yup. Honestly, I think the show should have just ended after season 4. They should have let Quinn kill Haqqani , him and Carrie quit to move wherever together, and just ended the series there. It would have been perfect.
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Exactly how I feel. They did a great job reinventing the show after Brody for a couple seasons, but it hit the wall last season. I’ve tried to get through the first episode of this season twice and both times lost interest and gave up.
I hate to go there, but the PC effect killed the show in a way. They’re afraid to make Islamic terrorists the bad guys anymore, so now they’ve turned evil government/CIA officials into the bad guys.
There are some legit storylines to explore there, but they choked on it last season
Yup. Honestly, I think the show should have just ended after season 4. They should have let Quinn kill Haqqani , him and Carrie quit to move wherever together, and just ended the series there. It would have been perfect.
Right. And they could've created a nice Mr. & Mrs. Spy kind of show. I'd have watched that in a heartbeat.
yeah, the Russian fake news angle wasn't hard to predict either.
The problem is Carrie can’t leave DC since she has a kid so the show is stuck there unless they get rid of Franny. Maybe the sister will adopt her, allowing Carrie to leave, but I can’t even buy that happening at this point.
they've happened (WACO, Ruby Ridge for example), but it's trite and cliched, poorly scripted, poorly acted and executed and a vast departure from what made the show interesting (to me at least).
I'm much more annoyed by the idea that a president will just come to accept the chief of staff fabricating a presidential order to the military.
Second I saw him I thought, awesome, King Ecbert.
and then I can't stand his unrealistic character.
The Vikings role was a million times better.