Next week is the season finale; sure went by quickly, it seems. Carrie once again does something no amateur would even do.
Clue: it’s a safe house, so the alarm will be set. If it’s not set, then someone is still in the fucking house and you shouldn’t be wandering around slamming doors, or you know: aaaack!.
The finale looks to be as tense and riveting as the rest of the series.
Dar does the Vulcan Nerve Pinch. I knew there was something alien about him! 
I really like this show. Consistently good writing and acting, and yeah you have to suspend belief from time to time, but I’m OK with that.
Clearly an attempt is going to be made on the life of the President-Elect and Peter is being set up as the “Assassin”. Straight out of “Parallax View”.
That season finale was a big let down. OK, they had to kill off Quinn, that’s fine, but the whole thing just seemed rushed. And the episode wasn’t even a full hour, either. I guess Carrie is going to go all Jack Bauer next season as she’s the only one of the good guys left who is not in jail.
I kind of liked it, because it surprised me. I expected the conspiracy to be thwarted, of course, but not what happened in the flash forward to the early days of the new presidency. In earlier episodes, the president-elect seemed suspicious of the intelligence community, but now she’s going full-on police state. (And I could understand not having a big public swearing-in ceremony but surely they’d have broadcast it live on TV and the internet? But from what the radio host guy said, it wasn’t.) I almost wonder if the new president was behind the whole conspiracy. If not, she certainly played right into their hands.
So it seems to have nicely set up things for the next season.
I wondered if the peering off towards the capital was supposed to mean anything - or it was just a general symbol of Washington.
I’m not sure what I think. I’ve liked the mystery of Dar Adal, but still confused by stuff about Quinn.
Couldn’t understand what the point of Saul was for meeting that police woman as an “IRS agent” - I thought she was Quinn’s baby mama, but the questions seemed like Quinn was her son - or maybe I got confused - and she looked too young - plus that picture - which also appeared in this episode made it seem like she was the baby mama. Same book BTW - “great expectations” - I’m guessing that isn’t an accident to have the same book in two episodes - wasn’t that a book about orphans - or a guy that makes the Statue of Liberty disappear.
And Geeze - why did she have to have a kid. Yeah - I know the whole Brody and all, but didn’t really see what it added. Least favorite kid since - not sure I remember the name - guy on LOST that lost his kid “They Stole My Son - WALT!!!”
I thought playing Quinn must have been pretty tough job - he certainly didn’t have opportunities to really show off his full potential.
I am a sucker for some things - and maybe my allergies acted up a bit when Quinn asked Carrie why did she save him earlier in the season. And again last night when she came across her own picture near the end.
Unless she is playing up the whole Manic part (can’t keep track of when she is on and off her meds) - she did an excellent job of playing the subtleties of mental illness - except when it came to her daughter.
Also - wasn’t sure if the viewer was supposed to fill in the (what I thought was an excellent part near the end of EK at her desk with the water glass). Were you supposed to remember the line “cowardess- it runs in the family”?
I just hope Carrie doesn’t hook up with Max next (doesn’t seem her type) - hate to have him killed off too.
I liked the whole notion of this season, in that they were doing a kind of “what if” scenario. Like what if some of the conspiracy people are actually tuned into good information but are being dismissed with the rest of the wackos out there? At least they have a setup for a next season.
So next season Carrie is going to turn into Brody to take out President Keane. Neat. Too bad about Quinn. [insert yet another lip quiver here]
Maybe Hillary would’ve won if she went on the Alex Jones show and proved she didn’t smell like sulfur. “Mr. Jones, I haven’t eaten a baby in at least 30 days.”
Just caught up with the end of the season.
That was a bizarre, out of nowhere ending. I think the writing staff had no idea where they were going next season and decided at the last minute, which required a massive tonal shift at the end with no setup at all.
All season we’ve seen Keane portrayed as a reasonable person trying to do her best to figure out the situation, and Dar Adal is never portrayed as having a particular reason to distrust her (other than maybe not being hawkish enough) and essentially attempt a coup. But then the tone changes dramatically at the last second, and it turns out Dar thought “something was wrong with her” and because of her totally random personality shift maybe he was right and the good guy all along. And she goes from offering a job as a close advisor to Carrie whom she obviously trusts, to simply ignoring her whole she’s dragged kicking and screaming away from her office in the next scene.
Even the scene where Carrie talks to the social worker and bags up Quinn’s things had a bizarre artificial tension to it. Having drunk Max show up right before the social worker was supposed to make the situation tense if he’s discovered. But it’s a thematically-inappropriate red herring - nothing comes of it, and the scene is supposed to tell us that everything is okay, and Carrie is going to get her daughter back, so it’s just out of place. And just as the social worker leaves, and you think “whew, they didn’t let that pointless conflict happen”, as Carrie is walking towards the passed out max, you hear a floor creaking upstairs and Carrie even looks back at it - clearly they’re trying to imply something is about to go wrong - and then nothing comes of that either. Just random tension-building red herrings in a scene where it doesn’t make sense.
This season was pretty good, I enjoyed it - it’s just that it feels like denouement and setup for the next season was written by some high school students doing a project after having read an outline of the season’s plot.