Homeland Season 3

I’ve got to say – Damian Lewis‘ comments in the new series of Top Gear (Series 19 Ep 1) aired 27th Jan showed some insight into the script strategy of the Homeland writers.

He says after Clarkson asks how it ends – “I don’t know how it ends because THEY don’t know how it ends”and “The headache of me being alive – they’ve got to work out what to do with me”.

I do hope I’m not right in my earlier blog on Season 2…I prayed it wouldn’t be like the 4th/5th seasons of “LOST” and get more and more ridiculous – but I fear Homeland will err this way.

I still hold out hope that there will be some redeeming storyline but…..

Its not just me that finds it increasingly easy to poke fun at what was a brilliant first season  – see the SNL clip http://www.myvideo.de/watch/8842944/SNL_Homeland_Skit. I was pointed there today and found Anne Hathaway‘s “rendition” of Carrie very well-played. Excellent stuff.

Apologies Mr Obama – you may find your support of this drama is more difficult to sustain than the position on Medicare in your second term.

 

Homeland Season 2

Was I the only sad soul who thought the last season of Homeland was degenerating into a bad version of LOST 5?

If the writers rescue this brand now for series 3, I will be amazed at their  wizardry. I was getting suspicious of where the series was going when Brodie “came out” as a terrorist  – but earlier in Episode 3 “State Of Independence” I was sitting in my lounge incredulous that any scheming terrorist would send a perfect presidential “mole” like Brodie – to pick up a terrorist bomb maker and risk his cover to only, accidentally, kill him in a wood.

The blooming love affair with Carrie the CIA agent was becoming more laughable by the Episode – a more romantic cabin I haven’t seen since the Waltons. Don’t get me wrong Claire Danes is beautiful (IMO) and congrats on the baby by the way.

There was a little drama when Brodie was uncovered as a terrorist – but at the interrogation and when the hand stab happened I actually blurted out “bollox!”.

I’m not going to fully describe the horror of the season finale – but suffice to say Armageddon – and more false twists than a 50’s Rock and Roll dancer. The miracle that was Carrie’s return to the body count room – and the look on Saul’s face could only be scripted by a Coronation Street writer.

I will watch the 3rd Series – if only because I need to know how they are going to rescue the credibility of this Obama endorsed TV show.