Homeland fans were given the biggest hint yet that brody would be returning during season six. This statement from the shows makers serves as pretty solid evidence that brody is really dead, but why did damien lewis return to the homeland set if his character died. The homeland series finale ending was full of betrayal. Peter quinn rupert friend had cheated death once before on homeland, but this time, there would be no saving him. The death of sergeant nicholas brody played by damien lewis on showtimes hit tv series homeland was certainly a bold plot move, but fans cant help but wonder if brody is really dead. Brody dying by hanging in season 3, episode 12 of homeland as carrie watches. Please dont read it if you havent seen the episode, unless youre one of those people who likes to. If brody had died, season two would have had to come up with some newer, bigger terrorist threat, just to top what season one did. Homeland is flipping the script on its lead character for its final season, putting carrie mathison in the same position as nick brody from season 1. In fact, the single biggest surprise of homeland season one was how quickly it confirmed brodys shady status. This is a recap of season 4, episode 7 of showtimes homeland, titled redux. In particular, im thinking of the scene where brody weeps, then tries to disguise it as tears of joy and relief, after being told nazir has died sure, there were joy and relief in there, but there was so much else, too. Declared an enemy of the iranian government in season 3, brody was sentenced to a public execution by hanging. Homeland season 2 finale recap did carrie and brody get.
It is sad to see such a fine actor go, but nevertheless for the. The episode picked up right where we left off last week. Did anyone else get the feeling that with spoiler gone, brody might return. The cia drama was written off by many early on in its run. How homeland final season puts carrie mathison in nick. The show actually was good and held its own after brody died.
In many respects, this was an episode about captivity the captivity of brody and carrie, certainly, but also the viewers release from the captivity of the quietly suffocating tedium. Those first two seasons, carrie seemed capable of being duped and misled. For about the first two minutes of the season two homeland finale sunday night, carrie matheson claire danes and nick brody damian lewis got to play house. To show the viewers that brody was redeemed in the eyes of his family. And im also thinking of that long scene in the car where the brody marriage dissolves amicably and compassionately. Heartbroken fans cry after maxs death and wonder if carrie is a curse. Its fitting that tonights season 2 finale of homeland was titled the choice, because im pretty sure many viewers approached it wondering whether they would choose to return for season 3 or decide its time to break up with the series. That question was answered in episode 7 of homeland season 4, and in retrospect the answer to the riddle seems pretty obvious. Homelands season 3 finale titled the star was another big finish for the cia drama. Brodys terrorist ties have now been exposed to the world and forcing him on the run has opened up a wealth of possibly storylines for season 3 of homeland. I appreciated that the episode began with nicholas brodys presuicide mission semiconfession.
And as painful as it seems, the characters death onscreen felt like it was a real thing. Brody in season one hid homelands flaws hitormiss dialogue, action scenes that were filmed on the cheap and looked that way, and an approach to plot that was, shall. Brodys dead, carries still preggo and sauls eating croissants the last episode, very christmassilycalled the star, didnt exactly leave us hanging. At the end of the episode, after the commemorative. Homeland creator alex gansa on brodys death and tackling news topics in.
As much as the showtime dramas central focus has always been carrie claire danes and sauls mandy. The ex marine turned terrorist turned vice presidential candidate seemed destined for destruction ever. Homeland damian lewis brody was never supposed to last long on homeland. But you always manage to survive, like a cockroach after. Cia officer carrie mathison claire danes is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. The brody family turns to therapy to mend their broken household. Brody was killed off at the end of season three in a brutal public execution scene, only to make a surprise reappearance in season four during one of carries drugfuelled hallucination. But back in the great season 3 homeland finale, the star, carrie says her last goodbye to brody when hes killed in a public hanging in.
That was a departure from the bombing of the cia hq in season 2s finale and the season 3ending hanging in tehran of nicholas brody damian lewis, the costar of the series. So began the third episode of homeland, which got a muchneeded boost with the return of brody damian lewis, and thank god the total absence of dana. Do not read on if you have not yet seen season 2 homeland finale episode 12, titled the choice. The season 3 finale of homeland was perhaps this years most polarizing episode of television. The saddest tv deaths, ever the walking dead, homeland. He arranged to have the vice president murdered, knowing that he had already placed the bombs on brodys car during the helicopter kidnapping and that there would be a memorial service at the cia. Eventually, after two meetings with brody, carrie felt that her. I wish they had shown a scene of his family in this episode. Brodys death was the best thing for the series its a bold move for a show to kill off a major character, and homeland took that chance in. In the fourthseason episode redux, brody appears in carries druginduced hallucination. Theres always plenty to love when homeland traffics in spy games, but those of us whove sung this shows praises well into the postbrody era know that its secret weapons are the.
With claire danes, mandy patinkin, damian lewis, rupert friend. But by the end of the star, which aired sunday night on showtime, brody was hanging lifelessly from a crane in the middle of a square in tehran. From the beginning, the series has revolved around sgt. In the original series, prisoners of war, the character died at the end of the first season. Marine sergeant nicholas brody was no longer with us. A bipolar cia operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by alqaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on american soil. Sure, they faked us out about his potential innocence now and then, but instead of.
Below, the emmywinning actor says goodbye to nicholas brody, his popular homeland starring character who was executed in a public square in tehran during the shows last episode of the season. Do not read if you have not yet watched prisoners of war, the series finale of homeland. The last we saw of them is how brody ruined their lives after he was framed for the bombing. The eighth and final season of showtimes homeland ended sunday night in an episode that hewed to what the series always did most thrillingly. John, known in the cia as peter quinn, was a cia paramilitary officer who was assigned to lead a surveillance team consisting of carrie mathison, saul berenson, virgil and max to observe congressman nicholas brody after it was discovered that brody had attempted to assassinate vice president william walden. Maury sterlings character max piotrowski was always running on borrowed time the minute he was captured by the taliban. Homeland ends on its own terms, for better or worse. The homeland season 6 finale featured the demise of another beloved character. For fans of showtimes tv show homeland, brodys death probably seemed pretty unavoidable at the end of season three. For an example of this, look at how the show that leads in to homeland, dexter, has been forced to play crazy games of oneupmanship just to keep the show humming after it killed off the primary antagonist in.
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