Has “ Homeland ” jumped the shark, gone too far, lost credibility?
Has everyone’s favorite obsession turned into a female-driven “24,” where improbability is the most probable plot line?
These questions and more are now plaguing the show’s obsessed fans who have created more online chatter about these world-altering events than the FBI finds on an al Qaeda plot site.
For me, there is really only one improbable storyline in all of “Homeland,” a show that still has me hook, line and stinker.
And that storyline, no matter how hard I try, simply cannot be reconciled.
No, it’s not the one from last week’s episode in which Brody was able to slip unnoticed into the vice president’s office, find his secret box where the code for his pacemaker was located. (I love that Abu Nazir said he found all that secret information about the pacemaker in The New York Times. They should sue!)
I kind of even bought it when Brody was able to text that info to Nazir’s guy while in back of the VP’s desk (still miraculously unnoticed by anyone on the VP’s security team) in order to give the VP a fatal heart attack — remotely yet!
I even bought the scenario about Carrie being kidnapped and tied up in an abandoned warehouse, and managing to run away — only to go back in alone.
(Apparently there are no longer any surplus goods or office spaces in this country because every bad guy, terrorist organization and even the ever-elite secret units CIA/FBI manage to find abandoned warehouses to set up shop.)
The scenario that I can’t buy, however, is the one concerning the gorgeous wife, Jess. I mean, isn’t it really straining all credibility to believe that she has found not one, but two red-haired men to sleep with? And good-looking ones at that.
I mean, do the writers think we’re a bunch of knuckleheads that we’d believe that hooey? The chances of any woman finding two redheads to have sex with must be greater than having your American hero husband turn into a rabid anti-American terrorist after being in a hole for years.
True,, compared to Brody, no one seems like a redhead, but if Mike were the only guy Jess was sleeping with you’d say, “Wow. She found a good-looking guy with reddish hair.”
That being said, I’m sticking with the show until the last. Even “The Sopranos,” had not just some bad episodes, but whole bad seasons. Like? Did you forget the season with Tony and the insurance salesmen cousin who kept coming up like a bad pork sandwich?
So, sure, there were some episodes this season that stretched credibility. But the fact that Carrie is certifiably nuts gives her a big edge in doing crazy things like falling for a redheaded congressional terrorist. Remember, the woman was picking up rough trade in bars before she met Brody.
After Sunday night’s episode, all that remains for the finale is whether or not Brody and Carrie run off like “Natural Born Killers” and live in hiding, killing indiscriminately, Oh, wait, he’s already been there/done that.