After having read stellar reviews about this show, I decided to check it out, also because it's over, so no useless, meaningless additional series to reach the 10 years-running mark.
Half-way the first season I agree about a good, suspenseful script and the Danes character being interesting, but sort of predictable. All female leads must be involved in some sexual cavorting (a lot of it, in the case of Carrie, who's painted as promiscuous and unfaithful).
In this episode, I found her repeated apologising to Brody annoying. She was apologetic enough the first time, maybe the second was still OK but three times is excessive. Brody doesn't like the way she treated him? Tough luck.
For the show to work the audience must like Brody as the vulnerable but jaded unconventional war hero. Problem is, I don't like him, his hypocrisy, his sanctimonious attitude and his being judgemental when he has a lot more than cheating on his conscience.
Finally, his wife Jess is shown from the start as a "cheating" wife. Her first scene is Jess having sex with a guy and you cannot make a first impression twice. The theme of her "cheating" is reiterated by her annoyingly judgemental teenage daughter. Jess is nothing more than a sex object the men pass around. Technically her "cheating" is not even that, because she thought her husband was dead.
It's typical of the American hypocrisy to paint women in a bad light (for their sexual "sins") and the men as tragically heroic, even if they too sleep around, are violent and plan terrorist attacks (see also the Muslim "professor" married to Aileen, the female American terrorist corrupting the innocent man).
Half-way the first season I agree about a good, suspenseful script and the Danes character being interesting, but sort of predictable. All female leads must be involved in some sexual cavorting (a lot of it, in the case of Carrie, who's painted as promiscuous and unfaithful).
In this episode, I found her repeated apologising to Brody annoying. She was apologetic enough the first time, maybe the second was still OK but three times is excessive. Brody doesn't like the way she treated him? Tough luck.
For the show to work the audience must like Brody as the vulnerable but jaded unconventional war hero. Problem is, I don't like him, his hypocrisy, his sanctimonious attitude and his being judgemental when he has a lot more than cheating on his conscience.
Finally, his wife Jess is shown from the start as a "cheating" wife. Her first scene is Jess having sex with a guy and you cannot make a first impression twice. The theme of her "cheating" is reiterated by her annoyingly judgemental teenage daughter. Jess is nothing more than a sex object the men pass around. Technically her "cheating" is not even that, because she thought her husband was dead.
It's typical of the American hypocrisy to paint women in a bad light (for their sexual "sins") and the men as tragically heroic, even if they too sleep around, are violent and plan terrorist attacks (see also the Muslim "professor" married to Aileen, the female American terrorist corrupting the innocent man).