Oh, Homeland. It's clearly trying to course-correct where things went astray in s2, and the performances are still great, but it's like they're trying to duplicate the mystery aspect of s1, where we didn't know whether Brody was a terrorist or not. Except they're doing it all wrong, by keeping things that the characters know from the audience for no good reason except PLOT TWIST! and it's just not working. Now the characters make random OOC decisions to further the plot or that are designed solely to mislead the audience. In season 1, there were some hard-to-swallow twists, but at least the show felt grounded in the characters and the relationships, and the acting was so good.
It's frustrating, because it wouldn't take much of a shift to make it a great show, but just when you're ready to say it's improving, it does some other dumb thing.
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Date: Nov. 7th, 2013 09:59 pm (UTC)It's frustrating, because it wouldn't take much of a shift to make it a great show, but just when you're ready to say it's improving, it does some other dumb thing.