I love Homeland, and I don't agree with people saying it was a boring season. Brody dying was unexpected for me, and such painful things can happen in a series. That's fine, I like it when you're overwhelmed even by fatalities like that. Keeps is unpredictable. However, the ending of it after that, my god. Anyone can die, whatever, it's okay, just like in real life is how I like it, but Carrie is just being stabbed in the back so damn hard by her own people, again, and then she just betrays Brody like nothing happened: shakes the new director's hand, sure, it doesn't matter. He could have easily lived, when he would return home they would have had a love baby in a protected house somewhere (like witness protection), and he was gonna be a hero for most Americans once more. Sure, he says he wants to die... depressed people want to die too sometimes, and he's gone through so much, that I would almost say of course he wants to die at some point. But he's mentally so strong, he could have become relatively happy again, with Carrie. By the way, those CIA bosses (apparently even for their bravest soldiers careless and immoral) instructing to capture Brody, is bearable as well. Just the fact that Carrie, our other great hero, accepts it all, while Javadi was in a fine position, and still able to maybe make it to the top anyway, is not bearable at all. Even if Javadi wasn't perfectly fine without Brody's death, Carrie should have done anything but accept that they kill her lover, her baby's father, and a man who risked everything to be on their side again.
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