Homeland Season 5 Finale Recap: “A False Glimmer”
So that's where all the character stuff was hiding!
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‘Homeland’ Recap 5×05: ‘Better Call Saul’
Welcome to Homeland: Ghost Protocol! Killers are stalking Carrie across the globe! Someone has compromised the Potsdam dead drop! Someone also wants Quinn dead! Someone knows all of Saul's schemes and is blowing up Syrian generals to foil them! Now that everything that seemed true has been blown away, now that death lurks around every corner, now that the unholy machinery of the Central Intelligence Agency has been turned against our heroes... they run around Berlin shouting at people basically as they have for four episodes now.
Every season of Homeland steers towards two or three episodes that change everything, but after five of those seasons, the procedural format is beginning to peek out around the margins. Homeland is sold and enjoyed as a tale of the deadliest operators in the world acting out America's deepest collective fears, but after so many betrayals and kidnappings and ultimata, it's beginning to look like something less ambitious: a show that gesticulates wildly at the boogeyman of the moment while Carrie Mathison falls in and out of love with a series of romantic interests and father figures.
