![]() ![]() With the world saved, the finale flashes ahead two years for its last 10 minutes. Therein lies the tragedy and the hope of “Homeland’s” final coda. (That she also saved herself from facing trial for the president’s assassination goes unmentioned, since Carrie’s unsanctioned team-up with the Russians have already made it impossible for her to ever return home.) Carrie doesn’t actually kill him, but she uses his sister to get what she needs anyway, obtaining the agent’s name (Anna), selling it to the Russians in exchange for public confirmation the president’s death was an accident, and forcing the trigger-happy White House to stand down from its retaliatory plans. Saul refuses to give up his asset’s name, even when death is a needle prick away. ![]() ![]() “Prisoners of War” sees each of them dig in their heels. Mandy Patinkin and Claire Danes in “Homeland” (Albeit with the caveat that Saul will try every other way he can to stop the trolley before it hits those other people.) Carrie argues that killing one person they know is worth saving the lives of many they don’t Saul argues he can’t live with killing the one person he swore to protect, and believes it’s better to let what happens happen. Carrie and Saul are on opposite ends of The Trolley Problem. They’ve both heard this argument before, and they both know where they stand. “No one person is worth the lives of tens of thousands - hundreds of thousands!” Carrie pleads with Saul. Saul, an old school spy and righteous protecter, refuses to give up his Russian agent. Carrie, desperate to avert nuclear war in the Middle East, argues to break the vows that have dictated CIA procedure for decades: She wants to give up an asset. Only instead of it being one scene, “Homeland” raised the stakes over a full episode - with a little help from “The Good Place” (OK, OK, and Philippa Foot). ![]() Trusting Danes and Patinkin, two fierce, commanding Emmy winners, to carry an episode is a good start, but the finale also relied on what director Lesli Linka Glatter said is “quintessential ‘Homeland’ scene”: pitting two people with completely opposing views, who are both right, against each other. “Homeland” drew enough parallels to today’s state of affairs and its original post-9/11 worldview without betraying its character-first ethos and long-view on historical crises. Recommendation Machine: The 'Mildred Pierce' Food Scenes Are Still Worth SavoringĪll of this set Carrie and Saul on a collision course that paid off in a surprising, effective, and thought-provoking ending one that let its two stars go head-to-head without tearing them apart or betraying their core values. 'The Last of Us': Everything You Need to Know About HBO's Adaptation 'The Beatles: Get Back' Review: A Riveting, Playful Look at the Band's Final Days 'Succession' Review: Episode 7 Is Way 'Too Much Birthday' for the Roy Kiddos Saul (Mandy Patinkin) kept trying to work through proper channels, negotiating for peace in Washington and the Middle East, but any hope of success went down with the president’s helicopter oh so many episodes ago. Meanwhile, the ill-equipped and idiotic American president (sound familiar?) kept putting her and everyone else in harm’s way, usually at the behest of his right-wing, right-hand man, John Zabel (Hugh Dancy, aka Mr. Season 8 saw Carrie relying on the Russians for help, and her trust was repeatedly rewarded. But after seven years of seeing the world with Brody, through him, and after him, Carrie stopped believing in the system, in her government, to do what’s right. But the rest of America paid the price, Derek Chauvin most of all.After seven months under Russian interrogation, had she, like Brody, been turned? No. Floyd did it to himself, the final self-destructive act of a sad, self-destructive life. Derek Chauvin didn’t inject that fentanyl into Floyd. He died because his heart stopped, with a lethal amount of fentanyl in his system. The autopsy is explicit: George Floyd didn’t die of suffocation. The Israelis use it on Palestinians all the time, and you’ll never see the typical member of Congress complain about it. Chauvin was put on trial for using a restraining tactic he was taught by the Minneapolis police department, and it was and is a nonlethal tactic. We already learned that earlier this year in the Derek Chauvin trial. Barring a completely inept jury, he will be acquitted.īut sadly, in today’s America, a competent jury isn’t something you can take for granted. It’s obvious to everyone watching that this entire case is a travesty and Kyle should never have been brought to trial. Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial has been going for two weeks. ![]()
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