The Homeland Finale Was Good

First let me cover my bases with something real quick: idgaf if you don’t watch Homeland. No one, and I mean NO ONE, loves to tell you they stopped watching a television show like people who stopped watching Homeland. They base their entire identity on it like they’re vegans or cross fitters. It’s honestly pretty fascinating. Tweet “Homeland was good tonight” and an angry mob pours out to tell you that they don’t watch that show anymore because they didn’t like a season a few years ago. You don’t watch? Fine. Send your issues about my blog to our complaint department…

It’s a trash can!

Now, on to the actual show. At the beginning of the year I was very worried about the direction Homeland was headed. I didn’t like activist Carried, I didn’t like broken Quinn, and I didn’t like Saul and Carrie hating each other. Somehow, in the end, it more or less all worked out.

The finale left some questions unanswered, and I’m not saying it was perfect, but when I turned the TV off at close the first words that left my mouth were, “That was awesome.” The first 25 minutes were the 24 style scenes that we keep begging Homeland to fully embrace and just become an outrageous spy show, with hardly believable plots and more killing. It also brought us a very fitting and emotional end to Peter Quinn, the shows best character for almost its entire run. Sacrificing his life to protect Carrie and the country, the only two things he has ever cared about, was perfect. It sucks to lose him but it was also absolutely his time.

The second half of the show wasn’t exactly that, but it was still excellent. Homeland always has, and continues to, thrive on tension. No one does it better when they’re on their game and I had white knuckles  as Carrie took the social worker on a tour of the home with a drunk hacker hiding out in the basement. That scene in particular was enough to make you want to jump out of your skin.

On top of tension, Homeland crushes twists. I dare someone to tell me that even a week ago they expected that at the close of this season President Keane has been the bad guy all along, and Dar was actually a patriot. I date you to say you called that, you fucking liar. Carrie screaming outside the Oval Office also had me talking out loud and saying, “Holy fuck,” because I couldn’t believe what was happening.

I don’t know where the show goes from here. Maybe Carrie turns into a terrorist/patriot and tries to take down Keane violently or maybe she takes the job as a senior advisor and tries to take her down from the inside, becoming the double agent she once tried to uncover in Brody. All I know is that I watched this finale with people who hadn’t watched in years and they couldn’t take their eyes off the TV, so O’m still along for this ride.

Also I know that if you’re not, you won’t hesitate to tell me.