One thing is to made a moving ending and another one is to made a depressive ending. And "The Star" is depressing. An episode to love or hate it.
After an entire season with its several downs and powerful ups what it did became clear was that the story belonged to Carrie and Brody. They stole the plot making them and keeping us in suspense. And this one installment (the last of this Season) is a truly great episode. It may be the best of the season in creative courage and plot terms. But killing Brody is a risky move.
They have booked a painful and violent death for him. Hanging. Carrie watches him screaming his name. He will never return home again. He will never return to his family, nor Carrie. He will never will make us doubt again. Homeland will never be what it was. Although this season had made it clear to me for the spin was taking, this latest episode confirms all.
And it leaves us in a difficult situation, since the series has been orphaned by much. It smells more like a Series Finale rather than a Season finale. Now just have to wait and see where the writers go although I suspect that Season 4 will be the last season of the show. There's no much more to say.
"The Star" has tension, has quality writing despite its noticeable flaws (the final minutes where we learn Carrie's next destiny so about the rest of the roles are a little contradictory and unsatisfying specially for the female character after all she did for her lover and now she continues working for the people who killed him... Will be the prologue for a surprising revenge plot next season? Or just Carrie decided not to be a maniac fighter anymore?), shocking moments and the most important of all: BALLS. But despite it, I can't say that I love this episode or I can't rate it 10/10. It's personal, I admit it.
In fact, this could be the right ending for Brody. Before everyone could hate me, Brody is my real favorite character of the show. He is Homeland because he was the pivotal start of this series. But everything he had to do: all the murders, all the betrayals, all the right and wrong moves... A happy ending with Carrie could be fine in our imagination, but we all know that in a series like this that won't happen. Brody himself wants to end with all. He's not a marine anymore. He doesn't want to hurt anyone else. So that death is truly painful and even tearful. If I were the writer I had been more softly with his death. But that was the ending that always could be possible in the show. And finally happened. It leaves us sad, without confidence. This is the way it should hurts, because he was a truly golden character. Damian Lewis is a lucky actor for performed it so well.
A superb episode, but very hard and very difficult to watch, judge and love as a fan of the show and Brody character arc.
Sorry for my writing if there are mistakes. I'll try to improve next time!
After an entire season with its several downs and powerful ups what it did became clear was that the story belonged to Carrie and Brody. They stole the plot making them and keeping us in suspense. And this one installment (the last of this Season) is a truly great episode. It may be the best of the season in creative courage and plot terms. But killing Brody is a risky move.
They have booked a painful and violent death for him. Hanging. Carrie watches him screaming his name. He will never return home again. He will never return to his family, nor Carrie. He will never will make us doubt again. Homeland will never be what it was. Although this season had made it clear to me for the spin was taking, this latest episode confirms all.
And it leaves us in a difficult situation, since the series has been orphaned by much. It smells more like a Series Finale rather than a Season finale. Now just have to wait and see where the writers go although I suspect that Season 4 will be the last season of the show. There's no much more to say.
"The Star" has tension, has quality writing despite its noticeable flaws (the final minutes where we learn Carrie's next destiny so about the rest of the roles are a little contradictory and unsatisfying specially for the female character after all she did for her lover and now she continues working for the people who killed him... Will be the prologue for a surprising revenge plot next season? Or just Carrie decided not to be a maniac fighter anymore?), shocking moments and the most important of all: BALLS. But despite it, I can't say that I love this episode or I can't rate it 10/10. It's personal, I admit it.
In fact, this could be the right ending for Brody. Before everyone could hate me, Brody is my real favorite character of the show. He is Homeland because he was the pivotal start of this series. But everything he had to do: all the murders, all the betrayals, all the right and wrong moves... A happy ending with Carrie could be fine in our imagination, but we all know that in a series like this that won't happen. Brody himself wants to end with all. He's not a marine anymore. He doesn't want to hurt anyone else. So that death is truly painful and even tearful. If I were the writer I had been more softly with his death. But that was the ending that always could be possible in the show. And finally happened. It leaves us sad, without confidence. This is the way it should hurts, because he was a truly golden character. Damian Lewis is a lucky actor for performed it so well.
A superb episode, but very hard and very difficult to watch, judge and love as a fan of the show and Brody character arc.
Sorry for my writing if there are mistakes. I'll try to improve next time!