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In Reply to: RE: Homeland is getting good again, Clair Danes can play crazy to a T posted by PhilJ on October 06, 2013 at 19:40:58
What a shame. I am very disappointed. What are these writers thinking? Are they really attempting to reach a female youth demographic?
Regarding the Sept. 29 season opener, our worst fears are realized. We now have 25% Tom Clancy and 75% Lifetime/OWN. Perhaps Oprah will make a guest appearance later in the season. She can take Saul's place as CIA Director after his heart attack. Surely she would be nominated for an Emmy.
Brody's mother-in-law is now on the show, I guess as the Greek chorus. We have to watch while that ugly narcissistic spoiled daughter takes boob pictures of herself to send to her new boyfriend like in American Beauty. Carrie is off her meds and doing an Anne Hathaway sketch on Saturday Night Live!
Regarding Oct 6, they should rename this "The Dana Brody Show." Half the hour was spent on this spoiled catatonic brat. The other half was spent on watching Carrie disintegrate. Seriously, this could be moved easily to Lifetime or OWN! Nothing original here.
I think that writer who died last March may have been the sole creative force here and those who are left are lacking ideas. He did win a posthumous Emmy while no living writer still on that show won.
What I think I am going to do in the future is stay with the DVR rather than watch this mess in real time. I will then skip over the Dana parts and reduce my stress level. I hate to totally give up on this. I expect once they get back to Brody things may improve...or maybe not! The preview for next Sunday does not look much better.
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about her now (or not) otherwise I can not imagine what they are thinking
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A close friend e-mailed me the following brilliant analysis of the current Homeland scenario:
I have no sympathy for the Brody family. It's sad they are victims of the tragedy of their father's/husband's nine years of brain washing and a brutal war between the world of the advanced northern hemisphere and the emerging southern, between the leaders of a political system whose history included being colonial subjugators and those who suffered that subjugation, between one religion who helped allow the enlightenment and that limited social advancement of its peoples, between a west who sees an ever little need for religion and those who see their religion and it's history of conquest and subjugation as their last best hope of preserving their idea of who they are rather than the early history of their intellectual enlightenment.
However, the daughter is so clueless as to her father and what he truly was and is ( he is not just the " crazy one who destroyed our family") as well as her clueless mother, who can't comprehend her daughter, that one can watch them and care little if they cope, survive or are destroyed by circumstances beyond their control or comprehension. To me the writers have not made them sympathetic enough to move them beyond the notion of collateral damage in a global war.
The daughter clings to a romantic fantasy that her fellow inmate not only understands her (they are complicit in justifying and rationalizing their dysfunctional coping actions to overwhelming forces) but justifies her and proves her and his superiority to the adults in her life. With the next episode her emotional, rather than what she thinks is her superior rational side, will move her to Islam and the need to reconcile with the father she can't admit she loves more than her mother and who betrayed her so greatly by abandoning her and caused her so much suffering for his sins. I assume she rationalize this as a defiant act against her mother and the US who have has persecuted her.
As for Carrie, her story and the CIA is at least more interesting. Though why Saul would have Carrie lie before a Congressional Committee and he couldn't come up with a false story to cover Carrie ( I know Washington usually requires a fall guy but couldn't one say that Carrie was seducing Brody to prove his duplicity and turn him as their agent?). I think they go on a bit too much in showing her mental deterioration because she is so good at it. But their comes a point she must face the fact that it was on medication when she alone saw Brody as suspect and that even if she was never bi-polar she would not be so perfect to see all and prevent all. She must accept that she is sick and needs medication of some degree and she is not perfect under any condition.
My problem with the show is that they couldn't let the Brody story go away. You would think they could come up with new ideas but instead they are clinging to Brody and his family for no reason that I know of except if they have Damian Lewis tied up in a huge contract like an overpaid baseball player you can't get rid of. Lewis is a good actor but he should have been a one season off guest star.Second problem is the repeat of the storylines with Carrie. You have to sit through Carrie's breakdowns over and over again. While that might be like real life, using it as fodder for why the CIA messed up is just insane at this point. Carrie is sleeping with a terrorist and the CIA is ok with it and Carrie is off the rails crazy? If that is the CIA's MO, then the terrorists did America a solid by blowing it up (except they missed all the lunatics unfortunately).
So the writers are focused in on this interpersonal lunacy rather than espionage which was made the first season so compelling. Why? You just know that Carrie will recover and figure out clues that no one else can. Because she's just special.
Edits: 10/11/13
I agree there are a ton of things I do not respect about the show (including points you mention like: Carrie is sleeping with a terrorist and the CIA is ok with it and Carrie is off the rails crazy?) but choose to ignore them in the interest of enjoying the rest of it.
thru the Brody fambly melodrama. Sis n law and her hubby are over for the weekend and don't have Showtime so we caught them up.
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Geez, I guess Breaking Bad should have focused more on Junior's travails and tribulations at schools instead of that tired old Meth Cook storyline...
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My wife commented that it was a shame Dana and her Mom hadn't attended the VP's Memorial.
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I'll have to tell Laura that, we both hated last weeks episode.
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