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Homeland title sequence12/30/2023 Homeland Seasons Ranked Best to Worst By David Crowĭebuting in October 2011, Homeland came of age during the first term of President Barack Obama. ![]() Rather the ending of Homeland comes full circle and comments, one last time, on the era of espionage that defined the Showtime series. However, the significance of this ending is about more than the plot machination of Carrie making amends for betraying Saul. Carrie meanwhile smiles on Yevgeny’s arms, even as her eyes weep in the series’ closing image. Realizing that he has not lost Carrie forever, Saul’s eyes sparkle even as his wounded grimace stays unmoved. She sacrificed one life to save thousands in Pakistan, and will become Saul’s last eyes and ears in a government that is still clearly hostile to the U.S., both in the fictional world of Homeland and in our own (although at least Saul doesn’t have to worry about a POTUS willfully turning a blind eye to election meddling, eh comrade?). Carrie will repair her relationship with Saul, even as she’ll likely never see his face again, by becoming that brave woman she gave up. Just on its surface level, it’s a profoundly bittersweet ending. As Saul explained in his video message to Carrie from even further years back, other than Carrie, Anna was the most important professional relationship of his career, and the bravest woman he’d ever known.īy giving this visibly strong woman to the Russians (not to mention handing a paralyzed Saul over to would-be Russian assassins), Carrie really did what the subtitle of her memoir states, “Betrayed My Country.” She did it so thoroughly, she even wrote the book about it, further insulating herself as a prized puppet inside the Russian government-which she is apparently using as a perch to continue Anna’s work. Anna Pomerantseva, apparently the CIA’s last active asset inside the Kremlin, was so thoroughly betrayed by Carrie in an attempt to prevent nuclear war that the best case scenario for Anna became committing suicide rather than a tortuous death at the hands of the Russian GRU. Two years after she utterly and thoroughly betrayed her mentor and last living friend, Saul Berenson, Carrie has taken on the responsibility of the Russian asset she burned. His wailing saxophone echoes the Homeland opening credits, and the decidedly American roots Carrie left behind. “Let’s celebrate.” And so they do, we see Carrie dolled up and actually looking happy-arguably for the first time since Nick Brody was alive-getting ready for a night out on the Moscow town, which includes a jazz concert by Kamasi Washington. “You’ve done a very, very important thing, Carrie,” he coos like a father proud of his child’s report card. Before we see her book, we’re teased of its existence when Yevgeny cheerfully surprises his girlfriend (or wife?) with a present. Instead Carrie’s apparent vision of peace is to be the prized penthouse canary in Yevgeny Gromov’s gilded cage. beltway’s backyard, idyllically watching her daughter grow up. Set two years after the rest of the events of the episode, our closing movements with Carrie are not in some far flung war zone or in the D.C. That at least appears to be the initial takeaway from the epilogue of the Homeland series finale. Is this what Carrie has been reduced to, the poster child of Russian propaganda against the country she sacrificed everything to serve? In fact, she looks downright despondent in the black and white photograph above the title, Tyranny of Secrets, and in the first image “Professor Rabinow” has seen of his protégé in years. ![]() ![]() On the cover of Carrie Mathison’s book, her tell-all about the apparent wickedness of the United States government, she is not smiling. This article contains major Homeland series finale spoilers.
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