It begins eerie enough when Carrie is convinced she is being set-up to take the fall for whatever she did or did not say to Yevgeny while under interrogation and off her meds. And for premium cable, this delayed anticipation was done fairly masterfully. Just like that, all wayward hope that Homeland Season 8 would just be wish-fulfillment about America’s longest war went underwater, and the stage is set for it to drag Carrie down too. The flood finally came in the last minutes when not just Warner but also the Afghan president were seemingly assassinated in their downed helicopter, and apparent Taliban fighters shot down the backup chopper. So for almost the whole hour, we just held our breath as that tower approached.
The rosy images of President Warner (Beau Bridges) posing with soldiers came with the golden hue of doom-like the surf being sucked out to sea before the tidal wave hits. To be fair, Homeland didn’t hide that the good vibes we were watching were anything but the calm before the storm. Everything was working out, and it looked like Homeland was about to establish peace for our time… and in a show this cynical, you knew it would never last. We all knew this was going to end badly, right? The mood good, Carrie was so at the top of her game, and even Saul got to lower the papa bear boom on the ISI.
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