Salon.com > brody and carrie http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Homeland” showrunner addresses Season 2 criticism http://www.salon.com/2012/12/17/homeland_showrunner_addresses_season_2_criticism/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/17/homeland_showrunner_addresses_season_2_criticism/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13147770 "Homeland" showrunner Alex Gansa addressed the criticism against the show in an exclusive interview with Grantland following an overwhelmingly disappointing season finale; the finale focused less on tightening the plot and more on the implausible relationship between CIA agent Carrie (Claire Danes) and her target Brody (Damian Lewis), of which Gansa said:

"The finale has its own shape to it. The strategy was to sort of to lull an audience into thinking it's going to be about one thing, and then really turning it on its head in the middle of the story and make it about something else entirely."

According to Gansa, the love affair was "the promise of the season":

"We were fulfilling the promise of the season, which I've been saying from the very beginning is the story of this doomed love affair between Carrie and Brody. And that's what we were really positing in the finale: Is a happy ending really possible for these two characters? And I think the answer was clearly no."

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