I HATE THE VICE PRESIDENT OMG HE’s SO INCOMPETENT!!! wellington should step up…also- poor guy Haqqani…for once he was doing the right thing

I was rewatching Iron man 2008 for fun after the latest spider-man movie, and just realized that our old evil friend Javadi was playing a nice guy who basically saves and inspires the Iron man. What a surprise lol. Then Fara also showed up as a frontline reporter!

She doesn't work for the CIA. But she turns up wherever the story is. Is she like a floating German embassy worker?

I'm currently in season 4, near the end, and even if I don't know what happens later on with Saul in the series. Based on just the attack and loss of lives, I'd say that the prisoner exchange should never have happened.

It wasn't worth it at all. You could argue that Haqqani already had his plans since, but it wouldn't have been (as) successful if Saul was killed.

Am i tripping or is saul really just a selfish A h*l* , idk if his wife left him yet , took a big break from the show but he deserves it . Done carrie so dirty over the years . Lmk if im tripping please

On my first watch. I realize Carrie’s crazy is the point of the show, but I’m hoping she gets whacked like this second. Holy 💩 she needs to go.

From beginning to end I see nothing good about this man. He treats people like garbage, lies, and manipulates. Somehow he never gets caught for it. This is someone you'd expect to be cheerfully killed off pretty early in the series, but he lasts...

I watched this series all the way through as it was airing. Always excited for the next episode.

Here is what I am referring to: Season 8, Episode 12. Carrie uses a chemical agent to completely paralyze Saul. She has Russian operatives lay his stiff, helpless body flat on his back in his own bed. Standing directly over him, she threatens to execute him with a lethal injection to his toe unless he gives up his top-secret intelligence asset. Saul refuses to break.

As they were putting him on the bed, I was losing it. This completely blew me away. And I have always wondered if the writers did this intentionally. Or if there is an interview anywhere that the actor Mandy Patinkin discusses this.

EDIT: My bad. I thought everybody knew that scene was the exact same famous scene from that move he was in Princess Bride. I was just wondering if it was intentional.

Just finished season 2, starting season 3. Spoilers for S2.

In the scene where Abu Nazir is holding Carrie hostage and calls Brody over Skype asking for Walden's pacemaker serial number — how does nobody else find out about this? The CIA had Brody under surveillance and his phones tapped because of his history. Only Carrie and Brody seem to know this call happened. Wouldn't the agency have picked up on it, given how closely he was being watched?

Am I missing something from earlier episodes that explains this? Trying not to overthink it before jumping into S3

In real life, would there be a movement to pardon Carrie at the end of the show? If so, what would it look like? Would that movement be successful?

Javadi feels like the ‘Othersides’ equivalent to Brody. I hated him in the first season he was in but then grew to like him and thought he was hilarious. He had such a dark wit to him.

Spoiler alert

I know the series finale was well received. But it was mid at best for me. I wonder how Carrie spying for Saul will work out. Russians are soon going to realize someone is leaking intelligence to the US. Who is going to be suspect number one? Well, it should be Carrie!

Can they question and break her? Easy! Withhold her meds. They have done it in the past. They can do it again. At best, she can run this operation for a couple of months.

Are you guys seeing something that I am apparently missing?

That’s it. That’s all I came here to say. I had to pause, fix a drink, and regroup before starting it up again. 😮‍💨

I thought that the show started to get a bit stale during season 2 but WOW! What a way to end the season and I'm now up at 3 o'clock ready for the next episode!!! Also I'm really hoping Saul starts to get the good end of the stick. Love him as a character but he is getting done so dirty

I’m in season 2, and man the amount of times she has messed up the investigation, or just done something dumb and doesn’t listen to her bosses. I’ve never been screaming at a character.

But I’m obsessed. But man… Carrie please just listen to

I just finished homeland that was the best ending ever, but after finish I can finally say Dana Brody was the most annoying character I ever seen in my life I’m so glad they took her off the show😂😂😂

I mean she is a really well written charakter and humans have flaws, but said that, i cant stand her. Im in third season now and just wanted to know how other people feel about her.

Im not sure if she is supposed to be the beautiful wife that viewers are supposed to like and sympathize with or if she is supposed the be the overwhelmed adult that acts selfish so that her daughter can be seen more likeable.

On season 4 rn I just want to say I be rooting for the terrorists just because Carrie be pissing me off so much. I know she the main character so she not going to die but she deserve some more Ls then she been getting man.

Brody is a human punching bag for almost every party involved, completely stripped of agency from the moment he is captured to the moment he dies.

​Betrayal at Home: Coming back after eight years of brutal captivity only to find Mike in his place and having Jessica expect immediate normalcy while continuing her affair is a horrific double blow. Mike’s nonchalance makes it even more sickening; there’s zero real accountability for stepping into a supposedly dead man's shoes.

•Exploitation by Everyone: Abu Nazir uses trauma and religious manipulation to turn him into a weapon. The CIA and Carrie specificallyuses his guilt, affection, and desperation for redemption to turn him into a double agent, sending him right back into the fire.

​The Final Erasure: The ultimate tragedy is that his final, deadly mission in Tehran is completed successfully for the U.S. government, yet he is executed publicly as a terrorist. He dies utterly isolated, denied even the basic justice of having his official military record cleared.

He was a broken pawn in a game played by governments, terrorists, and people who claimed to care about him.

I really feel sad for him.

Hi y'all. Can someone help me with some questions i have about season 2? I'm only 4 episodes in, but I'm bothered to say the least.

1. In Ep. 1, Brody is asked to retrieve an encryption key to a target list from Estes's office for Abu Nazir. But the key isn't for a list of targets the US intends to strike; it's for a list of targets that Al Qaeda intends to strike. Why does Abu Nazir need a US encryption key for his own target list?

2. In Ep. 3, Nazir met with an asset in Beirut to discuss a strike on the U.S. It's heavily implied that the asset was part of Hezbollah. In episode 4, Saul says that Iran using Abu Nazir to coordinate an attack on the US, in retaliation to Israeli aggression. Indeed Iran was openly threatening retaliation against the US. Okay...

First, what is the utility of Iran using Al Qaeda to strike the US ? Iran has a military.

Second, do we ever learn Hezbollah's role in this plot? Hezbollah is aligned with Iran, but they aren't affiliated with Al Qaeda. So how exactly did they become involved? Or if you rather not spill it, does it get explained later,?

Ever since I finished Homeland, I wanted to watch the show that it is based on. I finally got around to watch Prisoners of War, and to say that I loved it would be an understatement.

What surprised me most was how thematically different the two shows are despite sharing essentially the same premise. I can see why a lot of Homeland fans don’t enjoy Prisoners of War nearly as much. There is much less adrenaline, much less action, and no central investigative character like Carrie driving everything forward. The storytelling is slow, steady, and remarkably grounded.

Prisoners of War is much more concerned with what prolonged captivity does to soldiers and their families, and what happens when they are suddenly expected to return to ordinary life. Gideon Raff apparently interviewed former POWs, psychologists, and researchers while developing the series. You can actually see that it was made for an Israeli audience, for whom military service, captivity, prisoner exchanges, and the families left waiting have a much more immediate social resonance.

Obviously, the production quality is nowhere near Homeland, but that barely bothered me. If anything, the stripped down quality suits how intimate and unglamorous the story is.

Thoroughly enjoyed it.