![]() In other words, let me be clear, Carrie really did betray Saul, really did betray her country, really did affect the death of a very important American asset in Moscow. The effect of that all happening was, Carrie was able to avert a war from happening, but the relationship with Saul was severed. In other words, she completely burned Saul’s asset, Anna Pomerantseva (Tatyana Mukha). GANSA: That was the strategy, for sure, and almost more importantly than that, sort of nice, poetic closure, was the idea of slowly trying to repair her relationship with Saul. This is quite the twist, and in fact, in many ways, you have kind of book-ended Homeland where it all began. ![]() She seems to be playing the role, now, of double-double agent. There’s a time jump of a couple of years in the final minutes and Carrie is in Moscow. Gansa, at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, also talks about about the legacy of the show based on the Israeli series Prisoners of War, its one-time Oval Office big fan and its current occupant, its leads Danes and Patinkin, Russian interference real and fictional, finding its end in its beginning and the fallout of 9/11, how the L.A.-filmed Homeland finale came together over the long run and why Carrie had to go over to the other side.ĭEADLINE: Let’s start right at the end. It also, as Gansa and I discuss, left the door open for more. Murray Abraham earn nominations figuratively took no prisoners with ex-CIA officer Carrie literally trying to kill Saul. Directed by series EP Lesli Linka Glatter, the end of the show that saw Danes win two Primetime Emmy Awards, Lewis take home one and Patinkin, Morena Baccarin, Rupert Friend and F. In a show that has deftly exhibited an often-minimalist stance in its execution while peeling back the complexities of the contemporary Grand Game, Homeland took the stakes as high as they could with a looming nuclear confrontation between America and Pakistan over a potential POTUS-killing Taliban leader and a Cold War throwback for a helicopter flight recorder. With several years to plan out how Homeland would conclude, what they came up with saw Carrie betray and burn her mentor and one-time National Security Advisor Saul Berenson ( Mandy Patinkin), his embedded Russian asset, the United States, and almost everyone in her life and in the intelligence community - kind of. We tried a bunch of different things, and this is ultimately what we came up with.” “We obviously didn’t want to follow in the footsteps of some, you know, to be unnamed shows, that fell down and stumbled at the end,” the showrunner added diplomatically of a final season that was pushed back a bit early last year. ![]() “We wanted to go out in a successful way,” Gansa said of tonight’s series finale he crafted and co-wrote with Gordon about the end of their eight-season journey that included some of the best TV ever to show up on the small screen. Indifferent.Breaking Baz At London Film Festival: Todd Haynes Trumps Tabloid Tale With Gripping Melodrama 'May December' Starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore & Hot New Star Charles Melton It left me feeling like a high school senior who just got a principal's warning not to cut classes the week before graduation. Even the most dramatic event in "Threnody(s)" is relegated to, "Well, we wrapped up *that.*" And this event, if it was necessary at all, deserved much more attention and care. Season 8 has been characterized by cardboard characters this will almost certainly be regarded as "Homeland's" disappointing conclusion. Other characters, newer characters, who never should have appeared in a season with any pretensions to be meaningful, had no emotional impact, because we don't know them. Without spoilers, the only thing to say is that certain significant characters are out of play when, possibly, they should never have appeared in Season 8 to begin with. Kind of emblematic of Season 8 as a whole. to be completed in under twenty-four hours. A brand new character is introduced out of left field, tasked with not one, but *three* dig-up-the-dirt assignments. Of the eight episodes of this season so far, this was by far the most disappointing. "Threnody(s)" had so many faults, but that's because Season 8 introduced new characters that, like graduating seniors, will never stick around. Grades might still matter to over-achievers, but the sense of gloom and pointlessness matters more. When a series as iconic as "Homeland" is winding down, the feeling is like what a high school senior feels about his/her last assignments.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |