That was a departure from the bombing of the CIA HQ in Season 2’s finale and the Season 3-ending hanging in Tehran of Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), the co-star of the series. Last year Homeland ended with then-drone queen Mathison learning hard lessons about the realpolitik of international intelligence. Along with onscreen art attack and charge of being racist by a hired graffiti artist, Homeland additionally saw Mathison dealing with her mental heath issue and back in the fold at the Agency alongside a cuckolded Berenson, and longtime fellow operative Quinn.įrom 'Doctor Who' To 'The Count Of Monte Cristo': Deadline's 15 Buzzy International TV Dramas To Look Out For In 2024ĮP Lesli Linka Glatter, who directed tonight’s finale, had said that the end of Season 5 would be very different that the more low-key Season 4 finale – which she also helmed. With arms connecting to the real world, it also had ISIS running rabid in the Middle East and terror in and under the streets of Europe. And we saw what seemed to be the end of Friend’s now nearly brain-dead Quinn – or did we, in this age of Jon Snow dead/not dead on Game Of Thrones?īeginning with the ex-CIA operative living in Berlin as the head of security for a philanthropic German billionaire Otto Düring (Sebastian Koch), this season had hackers, revelations of surveillance and betrayal as the Berlin CIA Chief of Station Allison Carr (Miranda Otto) worked for the Russians and slept with Agency vet Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) as a part of the larger plan. There was loss, breaking of old ties and an unanswered offer of wealth and power that could change everything for Claire Danes’ Carrie Mathison next season. If you thought Hitman: Agent 47 was the worst thing that could happen to actor Rupert Friend onscreen, you obviously didn’t watch tonight’s Season 5 finale of Homeland and learn the apparent fate of Peter Quinn.Īfter a revitalizing Berlin-set season that cut unnervingly close to real-life terror attacks in Paris and the Syrian refugee crisis, tonight’s “A False Glimmer” episode was a case study in loose ends and lost souls for the Showtime series – which has been an award winner for much of its run and is up for three SAG Awards this year. It would have been a tad pessimistic to bring Carrie closer to Catholicism only to cap the season with her murdering someone she loves.SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight’s Season 5 finale of Homeland. The character became better at using her outer situations to inform her inner state of mind, and that allowed her spirituality to come forth. Carrie's mental state isn't always so good about decision-making, but she was in a good state following her med-avoidance early in the season. This is a case when the choice to flip a big plot decision makes sense within the context of the story. But it's strangely comforting to know that Alex Gansa's intentions were originally set on Quinn being dead. And then I was bothered by the fact that the creative team came out with the info about Quinn's survival, because it was kind of a cheat. Not so much because Carrie looked like she was sacrificing him or anything, but because Quinn's season-long misery hadn't been rectified at all, and because he had specifically been given an antidote. Upon watching the Homeland's Season 5 finale, I was initially bothered by the fact that Quinn was hypothetically being killed off. There was the whole business about her faith and this newfound Catholicism, and we were like, 'I just don't think she is going to kill him at the end.' And then when we got there, we just couldn't do it. We really thought that Carrie was going to kill him at the end of the season.
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