Looking back at Homeland ...

I don't know ... I like this show. From the Brody arc right down to President Keane, but there are such gaping holes in it that enjoyment that I felt watching it the first time fades when I think back on things.

This is a feeling I got mostly from this last season which started out kind of boring to me, and then picked up to breakneck speed and got very good and interesting, but ended ridiculously.

I started going back and reviewing the whole series, and there is not time here to go into all of that, but the whole thing about Carrie being mentally ill, bipolar as they call it is a deus ex machina, that is, it seems contrived to explain uncommon brilliance and yet not have it be due to the normal spying schlubs in the CIA that we all know are military political hacks pretty much.

They shook the character of Carrie to hard in all these seasons and I think they shook her apart, and made the fantasticality of her bleed all over the rest of the show.

They reduced Saul to an almost comedic character stumbling around always trying to best Carrie, and yet whenever he gets close to succeeding he finds that he needs her.

Maybe it is a temporary thing, but I am sadly feeling, over Homeland, and TV and video mostly. It is junk, much as I enjoyed the interesting twists and turns in Homeland throughout the years, it, and TV in general has gotten too political to ever say anything or to venture an opinion. Hollywood is not Liberal, or Conservative, it is whatever it needs to be to fool us into watching and paying - which in a way means it is more Conservative.