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Homeland |OT| Claire Danes and Damien Lewis in the best new drama of the season
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Cornballer
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The middle and the latter.
The latest trailer is all I've seen so far, haven't kept up with it.
And I don't think less of the entire season actually. Just the last episode, and where I fear the show will go, and should have gone.
While that is something that really bothers me (only because I feel his story is done...he pulled the trigger), what really fucks the whole S2 up for me is the amnesia. Put both together and its a big pile of
why
Which is great!
After reading that the show was intentionally meant be seasonally insular, I'm a bit disappointed. They could make bigger splashes by having shorter arcs with a definitive end.
Damien Lewis is super awesome though.
While I agree the amnesia stuff was kind of weak, I wouldn't really worry about it being some long term plot that lasts the entire season.
These writers did the same thing on 24. At the start of every season Jack Bauer is at his lowest point, depressed and dressing like a bum, no longer working for CTU, etc. Then by the end of the premiere everyone is freaking out when he does something badass and goes from zero to hero once again.
It's just super satisfying to watch the hero bounce back.
Cornballer
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Funky Papa
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I sense industrial amounts of misery.
Damn.
Damn.
RepairmanJack
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Damn, that looks great.
Tricky I Shadow
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Awesomeness overload! Season 2 so far looks as if the very high quality from season 1 will continue. Can not waaaaait!
showtime show so probably 7+
(american TV rarely, if ever, gets an end date. and if it does, it's after 3 or 4 seasons and it's for 2 or 3 seasons in the future. There will be a lot of seasons if ratings keep up and very few seasons if ratings fall.)
PhoenixDark
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3-4 seasons would make sense to me. BTW do we know whether the vice president will be president at the start of S2, or whether the season will start during the campaign (including Brody's congressional campaign) season?
Cornballer
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Rewatched "The Weekend" last night - such a gut punch. Great episode.
I haven't read through these, but I assume the Comic-Con panel details that I posted a few months ago have details on that sort of thing:
Eggplant Wizard
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I don't know, with Weeds coming to an end this year and three more series (Dexter, The Big C, Borgias) supposedly on a limited life cycle, I'm feeling optimistic about Nevins at the moment. We'll see if he'll let a big hit like Homeland come to an end when it needs to, but the era of Showtime's never-ending shows might be over. Hopefully.
RatskyWatsky
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But Weeds is coming to an end after 8 seasons, and Dexter will be ending after its 8th as well. The Big C (which will have 4 seasons) and The Borgias (which is also supposed to end after 4 seasons) were never very popular to begin with, but if they were anywhere as popular as the Weeds and Dexter, we'd probably be getting several more seasons of each.
I hope you're right, but Homeland is, like, Showtime's new hotness and I don't think there's any way Showtime will let it end in 3 or 4 seasons. (unless Claire Daines and Damien Lewis refuse to sign on for more seasons)
Eggplant Wizard
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No, but I could see it ending after five or six. Hopefully one or both of Showtime's new shows catch on so that they don't need to rely on latter day Homeland. They also have Shameless which could conceivably run for ages.
RatskyWatsky
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Sure. That would make for a total of 8 seasons, which is probably how many seasons this show will have. Shameless could go on for a while. Hopefully they don't run it into the ground.
-Pyromaniac-
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I don't care what anybody says, I'm a Carrie/Brody shipper. They best hook up this season and have copious amounts of crazy lovemaking.
Cornballer
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You can't help but root for them out at the cabin, even knowing that it's going to end poorly, which it does. The background with Saul's road trip back from Mexico with Aileen where they're talking about busted relationships doesn't help.
-Pyromaniac-
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just reminds me how many great moments/episodes there were in the first season.
RatskyWatsky
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I must be the only one who didn't really care for "The Weekend". I mean, it was good, but I didn't think it was that great. A lot of TV critics seemed to think that it was the single best episode of television produced last year, which baffles me a bit. I was never really a fan of Carrie + Brody, and I didn't really buy into their relationship. "The Weekend" was good, but no better than any episode of Homeland that came before or after it.
Tricky I Shadow
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I think every episode is consistently flat lined at 'good' with tons of spikes all over that dip into 'amazing' territory. I thought "The Weekend" was fairly flat....
It was good, but I'd say the peak was "The Vest" (more specifically Carrie's amazing meltdown) and the final episode (yeah I loved the finale a lot - suck it!)
Eggplant Wizard
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I meant five or six seasons total. Eight is hardly an improvement from current/past Showtime.
It was more in the way it played with expectations, with the series' entire setup to that point being destroyed. I think it strains credulity a bit with the way Brody mentions everything that is known to the audience and nothing more, but it's still one of the season's highlights.
Good man. I think I'm going to rewatch the last two episodes before the new season starts.
shadyspace
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Do you guys think real CIA agents are this dedicated to their jobs in real life.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
That's a good way of describing it. I think I agree.
Exactly.
Leona Lewis
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My lawd
It's awkward because I associate Danes so strongly with My So-Called Life that even now, sexualized images of her just seem wrong.
It's awkward because I associate Danes so strongly with My So-Called Life that even now, sexualized images of her just seem wrong.
Watch My So-Called Life, everyone.
RatskyWatsky
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Captain Nemo
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Ditto. That she is the only one who understands him is really compelling and I liked how that played into her stopping his plot via his daughter. Wouldn't mind the end game of the series be something like them teaming up to take down the evil VP.
New videos released by SHOWTIME. I haven't seen them, so can't tell if spoiler-ish or not:
Who is Saul Berenson?
Traitor and a Terrorist (Homeland Spot)
Who is Saul Berenson?
Traitor and a Terrorist (Homeland Spot)
blahblah...blah
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For a lot of people who watch the show, those two sentences could be consecutive.
Cornballer
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Out today:
Spotless Mind
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I'm up for creating it again.
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