Question/Observation From New "Homeland" Binge Watcher

Self | February 14, 2018 | PJ-Comix

[Gamecock]

What is absurd is that a total whack job can (spoiler alert, drag the mouse over the rest of this sentence) like Carrie can not only be in the CIA, but achieve the level of authority she does reaches. But like pointed out above, this is fiction.

[1Old Pro]

Actually, homeland this season has a deep state guy at CIA.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The first episode of season 7 aired last week. It is a complete Trump Derangement Syndrome fustercluck. A paranoid female POTUS (they were so sure Cankles was going to win) who puts everybody in DC in prison who she suspects of plotting against her and a one-dimensional right-wing terrorist transparently modeled after Alex Jones.

Season 5 was the best, in my opinion, because it centers on the exploits of Peter Quinn.

Without Quinn the show is over.

[1Old Pro]

a one-dimensional right-wing terrorist transparently modeled after Alex Jones.

I thought he was meant to be like Bannon .

[Cecily]

Speaking of Season 5 and echoing the poster’s original question, how could Carrie run all over Berlin chasing terrorists on behalf of the CIA and other law enforcement when she no longer worked for the CIA (she was working for a German philanthropist at the time)?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Simple answer that my wife gives me when I ask such questions:

"Simple. It was in the script, dear."

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I thought he was meant to be like Bannon.

I thought of Alex Jones right away. I've never seen Bannon as other than a photograph and I have never heard him speak.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

My only answer to that is that it’s just a fictional TV show.

I used to find it entertaining enough. Now, not so much.

[Pearls Before Swine]

HOW DID A VICE-PRESIDENT BECOME SO POWERFUL?

Kevin Spacey showed the way in "House of Cards."

[StAnDeliver]

"Good series, hopefully they don’t jump the shark like “24” did when they “normalized” muslim terrorists."

"24" was my last attempt at series television, when the shark jumped out of the tank, knocked the Fonz off the bike, and drove away forever...

After the Valencia nuke went off, and yet Kiefer drove across LA, towards Ground Zero less than 20 minutes later, just to beat up his brother. During the fight scene, the camera pauses to catch the mushroom cloud through a narrow window. Pretty damn close by. BUT...no scorched trees, no buildings on fire, no planes falling out of the air. Just an overheated barbecue in Santa Clarita. Uh huh.

Uh. Huh.

Realized then & there when watching something you have marginal interest in anyway, you're just being abused for your time. To sell soap.

[Boogieman]

“The President on the show is invisible so far but Vice-President Walden is so powerful that he can even order drone missile strikes? Really? In what alternate universe does this happen?”

The alternate universe in liberals’ heads, where Dubya was just a figurehead and Darth Cheney wielded all the real power.

[pinkandgreenmom]

I agree. I’m not sure I want to watch without Peter Quinn.

[sparklite2]

Good series, hopefully they don’t jump the shark like “24” did when they “normalized” muslim terrorists.

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Oh, dear. Spoiler ahead ... that would be about a season too late. The shark was cleared by several feet, and they stuck the landing.