Just finished season 3, and I think I'm going to pretend that was a series finale. The whole reason I started watching Homeland was because Damien Lewis was the lead, and he was such an underrated actor ever since Band of Brothers. I hated the Carrie character from the start, and with Saul not really in the picture anymore I just can't see a reason to check out season 4
I think this is a case where the writers blew their wad too early, as the first 2 seasons were awesome but then in season 3 they didn't seem to know what to do. So much time centered around such an uninteresting character in Dana that ultimately amounted to nothing, re-using the same plotlines of Carrie being crazy and ignoring orders yet somehow being forgiven, it just felt like a mess until the last couple of episodes
IMO the first season should have left Brodie a mystery and focused soley on the black marine who was turned, maybe with a cliffhanger at the end of season 1 with Brodie meeting one of Nazir's guys. They could have done so much more with that premise but seemed to rush through it way too quickly
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