I wasn't a fan of the big "reveal" in Sunday's episode of "Homeland" — but series creator Alex Gansa was mensch enough to hop on the phone the following afternoon to explain it all — and to address the visceral reaction it stirred among the show's fan base.
[There will be spoilers in what I'm about to write — so take the Starr Report exit ramp now if you're not interested.]
Sunday night's episode ended with Carrie (Claire Danes) — sprung on a 24-hour furlough from her CIA-enforced stay in a psychiatric ward — showing up at Saul's (Mandy Patinkin) house. Turns out Saul didn't really turn his back on Carrie and throw her under the bus in this season's opener — but that the two had meticulously planned Carrie's nervous-breakdown/mental hospital storyline in an elaborate ruse to entrap the Iranian who masterminded last season's CIA headquarters bombing.
"I've stopped cold-turkey reading [viewers'] responses and everyone is entitled to how they respond or how they feel about it," Gansa said. "I'm glad the conversation is happening. This was a 'reveal' that was planned as . . . our big idea for the first four episodes, and everything that led up to it was meticulously planned and crafted.
"I can certainly take people step-by-step to show them what was done in certain areas, but I'd have to know their specific criticisms," Gansa said. "Some people might feel that Carrie's response when she was in front of the TV set [watching Saul throw her under the bus] did not square with that fact that she was part of the ruse," he said. "I would take fundamental issue with that — yes, she knows she's being sold out and scapegoated, but that doesn't diminish the pain of what's happening in her life."
My biggest issue with Sunday's episode was that everything had to fall exactly into place for Saul and Carrie to lure the Iranian (Javadi) into the open — and how could they possibly know he would fall for their ruse and approach Carrie through an intermediary? I asked Gansa about that.
"That's part of the uncertainty about it and also Carrie was upset about this — she never knew if this would . . . actually happen, and she initially has no idea who [Javadi's intermediary] is," he said. "But Saul and Javadi have a previous connection and Saul knows this man would want to capture Carrie as an asset — and what that would mean to this guy and to [his and Saul's] adversarial nature. Javadi and Saul are locked in combat — and Saul dangling out his protege to the man who knows him so well is what he's banking on."
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