Season 8 has been pretty good. You have to suspend reality at a few different places put it is definitely well written. It brings the show full circle in some ways because this season is less about the action and more about the moral questions of everything the U.S. is doing in the world and the people that are doing it.
Would you argue that the first few seasons when Damian Lewis was in it was the peak of the show?
This last season dragged to the point I didn't care and then picked up at the end. It's tough to end a series that has been going this long. I felt the ending was worthy and a tad controversial as well.
I liked the ending - thought it had some nice symmetry to it.
As I think about the ending more, I wonder of Showtime was mocking the Danearys character leap from Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Carrie's character leap in the last 3 episodes of Homeland was very similar to that of Danearys, where an appealing and sympathetic character suddenly turns evil with ambiguous underlying motivations for doing so. The final twist at the end of the final episode of Homeland could be Showtime saying "ha ha, you thought we were as stupid as HBO?"
As I think about the ending more, I wonder of Showtime was mocking the Danearys character leap from Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Carrie's character leap in the last 3 episodes of Homeland was very similar to that of Danearys, where an appealing and sympathetic character suddenly turns evil with ambiguous underlying motivations for doing so. The final twist at the end of the final episode of Homeland could be Showtime saying "ha ha, you thought we were as stupid as HBO?"