![]() ![]() Now Carrie, who does not remember all of her time resting with the Russians, has to come to terms with the fact that she has always had a fatal weakness for the bad guy. When first introduced, Ronin was “spreading fear, rumour and innuendo,” in an attempt to undermine US influence around the world. He thought they’d made some kind of connection whilst she was off her head in a GRU gulag. ![]() Yes, it’s more Russian interference, although this bonking Boris seems as confused as the constantly be-wigged Carrie. Our confusion as well, as Ronin is actually Russian and not an Old Etonian thesp. But this season seems to be setting up Costa Ronin’s hulking Russian GRU operative as her love interest, much to Carrie’s understandable confusion. First it was Damien Lewis (the source of that unacknowledged child), then it was the doomed Rupert Friend and last season had James D’Arcy (Jarvis!) improbably playing a tooled-up CIA operative. Talking of which, Carrie has always had a love interest played by a British actor doing American. “We’re not staying forever, the President has made that abundantly clear,” he notes, as the show covertly tries to reflect the real world, and Trump’s desire to withdraw from anything that has a Russian involvement. Saul (the magnificently bearded Mandy Patinkin) is off in Afghanistan, trying to arrange an orderly withdrawal of US forces. Some of us watching may remember that she’s got a young child somewhere but, like our Prime Minister, the show doesn’t acknowledge that. Now she’s recuperating in Germany and desperate to return to the frontline. So where are we now, in this increasingly make-believe world? At the end of the last series, Carrie (the ever twitchy Claire Danes, always giving her all) had just been let out of a Russian prison, deranged from lack of medication. And now we arrive at the latest, and last, season of Homeland still pretending that someone seemingly in the pay of the Russian government could never be elected President. Yep, she’s still massively unpopular in the States in a way that the rest of the world finds a bit baffling.)Įventually, Homeland’s version of Hillary was forced to resign as President, presumably before the millions of lone gunmen succeeded in bumping her off. ![]() (In this, they may actually be reflecting the real world, as the recent rise of Bernie Sanders in this year’s Presidential primaries came right after he was denounced by the real world Hillary Clinton. Great-conspiracies-wanting-to-kill-her unpopular. Like George Costanza quitting his job at the New York Yankees, they more or less pretended that Trump hadn’t happened (he has so far failed to appear in the title sequence) and blithely continued on with their version of Hillary being the President, although they sotto acknowledged reality by making her massively unpopular. Then everything went to shit for Carrie and the boys when Donald Trump unexpectedly got elected President, just as they’d introduced a Hillary Clinton-like figure as their next President. While the lives of its main characters felt very domesticated – including adultery, bipolar disorder and PTSD – its bigger picture took on terrorism in every capacity and just about everything that has happened post-911. Bush and Barack Obama in its jazzy title sequence. Since its inception, Homeland tried its best to be a reflection of What’s Happening Now, for example putting both George W. Has ever a show been more derailed by real events than Homeland (Channel 4)? A US spy drama supposedly set in the real world, Homeland was more John le Carre than James Bond, swapping excitement for interest a slow burn-after-reading thriller featuring very clever people with deep flaws.
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