Via: Tuned In
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, find a good parking space and watch last night’s season 2 finale of Homeland. “It’s like you just don’t know anyone.” “Hey. You know me.” Do we? In the first season of Homeland, what we didn’t know about Nicholas Brody was essential to the story: whether he was a terrorist or falsely accused, what his true motives were, whether there were lines he would not cross. The second season focused closely on Brody’s mindset as he dealt with irreconcilable pressures from Abu Nazir, the CIA and his family–yet we still spent much of it guessing. Had he really turned? Was he running some secret scheme? Did he truly love Carrie? Last night’s finale, “The Choice,” settled the question–for now, anyway!–by showing us that Brody was on the level: he was done with Abu Nazir, he was in love with Carrie, he was ready to make a new start. (I’m sure there are theories as to why this is all a misdirection. I’ll get to that in a bit.) He got a much different kind of new start than expected, and it was Homeland—after an emotionally satisfying but overly twisty season—that faced a choice: whether it wants to be a show grounded in the psychology of characters who we know, or whether it’s going to throw as many switcheroos as possible to keep the Brody-and-Carrie story alive for as many seasons as possible. Before the bomb went off and our couple hit the road, “The Choice” teased us with a couple other possible outcomes. Brody spent most of the episode’s first third speaking like a man who was about to die. He went on a nostalgic visit to the cabin with Carrie, talking about the future and saying things like “I have a second chance,” the kind of line a story like this generally throws to a guy who doesn’t have one. In the middle third, after Quinn developed a conscience and told Estes there was to be no assassination, it was possible to
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Posted: December 17th, 2012
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