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Homeland (2 Viewers)
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flapgreen
Footballguy
Not really but it's not a terrible season. I think it's worth going through. I wish I could unwatch Season 3
jamny
Footballguy
RBM
Footballguy
ffldrew
Footballguy
Ted Stickles
Footballguy
Harry Manback
Footballguy
I kept thinking Dexter.
The blood spatter is all wrong.
Guy is in chair, Allison and partner are in front of him, side by side.
Allison shoots guy from the left, spraying blood on the right wall. From guy in chairs perspective, he'd have had to get out of the chair, move to the right and forward, then turn and shoot guy, then go back to the chair and shoot her, point blank in the shoulder. Her clothes/skin would have burns from the muzzle flash being pressed against her which would almost immediately ruin her story.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Billy Bats
Footballguy
Terrible. 
Billy Bats
Footballguy
Ned
Footballguy
I kinda hope it is with the way they left things. The show takes a big hit with Quinn being dead (they better not do some corny miracle recovery).
shadyridr
Footballguy
I didn't mind the Quinn stuff obviously. I also didn't mind her breakup with her boyfriend. Those were necessary to show to close loose ends. But a lot of the other stuff was a drag. They ended the terrorist attack in the beginning of the episode. All that build up for a 5 minute shootout was horrible. And then they ignored the Alison stuff again until the final 5 minutes where Saul basically murdered her.
RBM
Footballguy
I think the finales stink because they're too invested in Carrie's personal relationships which for me is the least interesting part of the show.
I guess the way they left off with the Durian proposal (?) and her deciding not to pull the plug on Quinn was their idea of a cliffhanger.
I was fine with the end of Allison. No way could Saul take her alive. She just knew way too much.
I guess the way they left off with the Durian proposal (?) and her deciding not to pull the plug on Quinn was their idea of a cliffhanger.
I was fine with the end of Allison. No way could Saul take her alive. She just knew way too much.
Ned
Footballguy
When he started off, I thought it was a marriage proposal. Then I thought it was a business proposal, but then he touched her hand.
ETA: wasn't he talking to Jonas about ending her contract a few episodes back?
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(HULK)
(Smash)
He lied to both Jonas and Carrie. He was trying to undermine their relationship.When he started off, I thought it was a marriage proposal. Then I thought it was a business proposal, but then he touched her hand.
ETA: wasn't he talking to Jonas about ending her contract a few episodes back?
El Floppo
Footballguy
ooooooh, girlfriend.He lied to both Jonas and Carrie. He was trying to undermine their relationship.When he started off, I thought it was a marriage proposal. Then I thought it was a business proposal, but then he touched her hand.
ETA: wasn't he talking to Jonas about ending her contract a few episodes back?
(HULK)
(Smash)
I was really hoping he was lying to them for ANY other reason than that.ooooooh, girlfriend.He lied to both Jonas and Carrie. He was trying to undermine their relationship.When he started off, I thought it was a marriage proposal. Then I thought it was a business proposal, but then he touched her hand.
ETA: wasn't he talking to Jonas about ending her contract a few episodes back?
Not the series finale, renewed for season 6.
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/homeland-renewed-season-6-the-affair-season-3-showtime-1201657633/
GreenNGold
Footballguy
Another terrible finale. Also, after to a promising start this season really turned mediocre. I'll most likely watch another season (assuming I still have cable) but this show has really gone downhill. Seasons 1 and 2 were great, the rest have all been pretty mediocre.
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is no where near Berlin. It also doesn't have any of those fancy windows, but I'm sure Quinn didn't mind.
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Skoo
Footballguy
In regards to the finale stinking -
If I remember correctly most seasons have been like this, where the 2nd to last episode is really the climax and the finale is just tying up loose ends and setting things up for the next season. Game of Thrones does it the same way.
I was laughing when Carrie went back to her house at the end, I said to my wife "Hi honey, I'm home! All that crazy terrorist stuff is over now, so let's just forget that I'm a lunatic and go back to normal!!"
And then, of course, that's exactly what she said pretty much verbatim.
If I remember correctly most seasons have been like this, where the 2nd to last episode is really the climax and the finale is just tying up loose ends and setting things up for the next season. Game of Thrones does it the same way.
I was laughing when Carrie went back to her house at the end, I said to my wife "Hi honey, I'm home! All that crazy terrorist stuff is over now, so let's just forget that I'm a lunatic and go back to normal!!"
And then, of course, that's exactly what she said pretty much verbatim.
Aerial Assault
Footballguy
So I departed the series with Brody - by the way, when Showtime shows those promos for the stupid-looking new series "Billions" with Damian Lewis, I want to sock him in the snout, so I'm pretty sure Homeland soured me on him for good - and came back this season because I thankfully had a light month and bingewatched.
Overall it was a strong season despite the ridiculous nonsense of letting Allison out into the field again - hey, why not let the Russian guy go as well, right? I just couldn't get past that.
Anyway, then came the finale, which was awful. First off, the Carrie relationship crap was ridiculous. From a shallow perspective, I used to think Claire Danes was really pretty (when she was in Terminator 3, for example), but she just looks terrible to me now despite being my type on paper, so I just can't get into it when 75% of an episode is devoted to THREE guys falling for her/rejecting her for reasons that weren't clear/whatever, including a billionaire. On another shallow note, Allison aged just terribly since she was a really cute Eowyn in Lord of the Rings.
Killing Quinn - stupid. (And even more stupid that they left it open-ended.) I'd guess half the audience is watching just for him.
The pacing was all wrong as others have mentioned. I felt sorry for the jumper, Marwan (?). And I hated the Laura character, although the actress was excellent. Oh, and IRL Dar Adal (is he the CIA director? Love the outfit) and Saul would be fired immediately and perhaps even prosecuted.
Just what I've come to expect from this show, pretty much. I wish this had been a season finale but I'm sure S6 can feature five, no, hell, ten guys wanting to get in Carrie's pants while she fights some threat that awkwardly shoehorns in the CIA, FOR WHICH CARRIE DEFINITELY DOES NOT WORK. Maybe Chris Brody has become a terrorist of some sort by now.
Overall it was a strong season despite the ridiculous nonsense of letting Allison out into the field again - hey, why not let the Russian guy go as well, right? I just couldn't get past that.
Anyway, then came the finale, which was awful. First off, the Carrie relationship crap was ridiculous. From a shallow perspective, I used to think Claire Danes was really pretty (when she was in Terminator 3, for example), but she just looks terrible to me now despite being my type on paper, so I just can't get into it when 75% of an episode is devoted to THREE guys falling for her/rejecting her for reasons that weren't clear/whatever, including a billionaire. On another shallow note, Allison aged just terribly since she was a really cute Eowyn in Lord of the Rings.
Killing Quinn - stupid. (And even more stupid that they left it open-ended.) I'd guess half the audience is watching just for him.
The pacing was all wrong as others have mentioned. I felt sorry for the jumper, Marwan (?). And I hated the Laura character, although the actress was excellent. Oh, and IRL Dar Adal (is he the CIA director? Love the outfit) and Saul would be fired immediately and perhaps even prosecuted.
Just what I've come to expect from this show, pretty much. I wish this had been a season finale but I'm sure S6 can feature five, no, hell, ten guys wanting to get in Carrie's pants while she fights some threat that awkwardly shoehorns in the CIA, FOR WHICH CARRIE DEFINITELY DOES NOT WORK. Maybe Chris Brody has become a terrorist of some sort by now.
Billy Bats
Footballguy
Open ended? I thought he was 110% dead.Aerial Assault said:
El Floppo
Footballguy
with the fade to white, it's implied. of course it could also mean zomg it's a miracle divine light fade to white given the praying carried did. next season, it's carrie the flying nun.Open ended? I thought he was 110% dead.Aerial Assault said:
Aerial Assault
Footballguy
Quinn was alive but on life support and stable as far as I could tell (the dialogue was atrociously unclear on this). It also appeared that Carrie went into his room to euthanize him, hence her barricading the door and closing the shades. I took the sudden divine burst of light to mean she was changing her mind, thus leaving Quinn's fate open.
PIK95
Footballguy
This is where I am also.
RBM
Footballguy
Billy Bats
Footballguy
Good points. I was bored and sort of paying attention, so I assumed the light was taking Quinn.
kentric
Footballguy
The only way they kill Quinn off is if the actor opted out of the show. He's way too important for the show to off him.
I liked the way they closed off the whole train tunnel bomb scene early on and was curious as to how they were going to fill in the remainder of the episode. Unfortunately, they didn't do much with the remaining time.
I was with a few others here with regard to the whole staged attack by the professor.
1. a 150 lb weakling takes a gun from the former NFL linebacker;
2. shoots linebacker;
3. shoots Allison in the shoulder with gun contacting shoulder (gun power residue had to be all over her);
4. Allison shoots him from 5 feet away after being shot herself;
5. he falls down into a chair like he's Al Bundy (but for the hand in his pants.).
Yup. Seems like a logical progression to me. I'd take her word for it.
I liked the way they closed off the whole train tunnel bomb scene early on and was curious as to how they were going to fill in the remainder of the episode. Unfortunately, they didn't do much with the remaining time.
I was with a few others here with regard to the whole staged attack by the professor.
1. a 150 lb weakling takes a gun from the former NFL linebacker;
2. shoots linebacker;
3. shoots Allison in the shoulder with gun contacting shoulder (gun power residue had to be all over her);
4. Allison shoots him from 5 feet away after being shot herself;
5. he falls down into a chair like he's Al Bundy (but for the hand in his pants.).
Yup. Seems like a logical progression to me. I'd take her word for it.
kentric
Footballguy
And Glenn was eaten by zombies....
As was said before. He's just a little dead. Like Douglas MacArthur. Quinn shall return.
