The first season was largely about Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) and the romantic spy game he played with Carrie. Stevie Nicks Does the Math and Wishes Harry Styles Was Older, Disney Casts Iman Vellani As Its Marvelous. But we wanted more for her than that. In some ways maybe 2 and 3 are more closer to my personality, I’m actually quite light, but I’ve never seen a show quite do what we did there… I felt like that show was gutsy. is not what he seems to be: “Find a way.”. We started talking about the finale as we got episodes nine and 10 as we were breaking the season. Here’s my read of the sequence watching Kamasi Washington and his band at the end, and please correct if this is wrong: The first part of that scene shows how the discordant jazz of the opening credits that represents Carrie’s mental state has now smoothed into this melodic and enjoyable form that finally makes her happy. Who knows what Howard wants to do. And with Yevgeny, the trick was to create a scenario in which he wouldn't be overly suspicious of her. Major spoilers for "Prisoners of War," the series finale of Showtime's Homeland, in the interview that follows. Because of course the show reveals more about you than it does about it. Coon said that given her theater background, she simply wasn’t used to asking too many questions about the script: “I came to find out later that a lot of the other actors were asking other questions, but I think because I come from the theater I don’t question the writing generally. But in one last twist, we learn Carrie has begun sending intelligence to Saul, effectively replacing the asset she destroyed. Avez-vous quelques informations à nous donner sur ce titre ?

Dites-nous ce que vous pensez du site Web de Last.fm. And also a mission. One of the close seconds was that she actually killed him. By jumping through time and four different performances, the movie paints a portrait that is fractured instead of illuminating. It’s set many years after the main events of the show, and after we saw Nora (Carrie Coon) decide to go into a theoretical machine that may or may not send people to where their departures have gone.

I did feel that Season 1 of The Leftovers tended toward the humorless in a way that Tom’s writing doesn’t, so you could see that Tom’s material was sort of losing out against a bigger aim.”. And she was responsible for the death of a very important American asset in Moscow, and she betrayed her country. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved.

Pour que tout fonctionne correctement, veuillez rafraîchir le site. In many ways, the final season of Homeland was a mirror image of the series' debut. She then locks herself and her mother in a closet and sets fire to their house. How did Claire Danes react after she read the script? She loves him in the way that Carrie can love somebody. But, of course, she's using him too. Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, The Most Interesting Man in Show Business. Well, the finale script went through a number of drafts and there was a lot of discussion among all parties involved.
If I’m confused about something or something doesn’t feel character-driven to me I will always raise that, but I had so few moments of that on the scripts for The Leftovers that it didn’t occur to me that I could go to them and be like, ‘So what’s this now?’ And I didn’t know that’s how it was gonna end until I got the speech! 14 action-packed shows that deserve a spot on your must-watch list, Love Never Dies: TV shows that brought back dead love interests. What had Carrie been up to for two years? Log in or link your magazine subscription, Jeffree Star’s New Boyfriend Allegedly Robbed Him and Is Ignoring His Calls, BTS Army Spokesperson John Cena Explains What Made Him Stan, ‘Will You Shut Up, Man’ Is the Song of Summer, The 50 Best Horror Movies on Netflix Right Now, Clare Bronfman Sentenced to 81 Months in NXIVM Sex-Cult Case, Chrissy Teigen Shares That She Has Suffered a Miscarriage, “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before.”, Here Are the First Images from Netflix’s Adaptation of. Even as Yevgeny is at least somewhat successfully turning Carrie into a Russian asset, it’s her connection to Saul Berenson that keeps her alive and hunting down the recorder that eventually stops what would become a nuclear conflict in the Middle East. I don't think there was much debate because if you look at Carrie's history with men in the course of the eight seasons, all her relationships with guys have to be charged in a way for them to even appeal to her at any level. The dynamic between Saul and Carrie really came into focus after season two, which ended with the 12/12 bombing that made Brody a fugitive. Carrie Coon explains why she never asked Damon Lindelof if Nora was lying in The Leftovers finale, and reflects on the show's tonal evolution. Does Carrie betray her country or continue as a CIA spy? That was a really important voice in the mix. One way to end would be to have Carrie exiled in Russia and living in some Soviet-like apartment block in an incredibly grim situation, isolated from the world like Ed Snowden. Another chapter doesn't feel necessary at the moment. As your browser speaks English, would you like to change your language to English? George RR. 10 Shocking Stories From Mariah Carey’s Memoir, Everything We Know About the Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez Shooting. Adapted from an Israeli series called Prisoners of War, Showtime’s Homeland premiered just over a decade after 9/11, an event that lingered in the background of the show throughout its run. Mimi Leder tells this story, which I don’t tell to flatter myself but just to illustrate how things were operating, I think she went to ask Damon how they were gonna direct [that finale scene] and then she said, ‘Oh nevermind, Carrie will know what to do.’ They just left it in my hands and I didn’t ask, and now I think maybe I should have (laughs).”. We definitely curated those songs, so that shot of Carrie was a cacophonous mix of sounds and you sense that it's in that chaos that she thrives. Both. Exactly. It had an unstable heroine, haunted by her belief that she could have stopped 9/11, and a male protagonist who was a hero/spy, a prisoner of war coming home not as an American patriot but an enemy in plain sight.
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Until this season. Carrie Finklea, Actress: A Fish Story. The Ladies Night interview also touched on the tonal shift of The Leftovers, which played out in pretty dire dramatic fashion in Season 1 before adding some levity and humor in Seasons 2 and 3, which also both felt very different from one another.