The co-creator of Homeland breaks down Sunday night's series finale
"One of the things that we figured [viewers] would least expect was a little hope at the end of it all — so that’s what we chose to go with."its eight-season run
Skipping ahead two years down the line, a coda reveals Carrie and Yevgeny living together in a lux Moscow penthouse. She's published a book about her decision to betray America for Russia. And as the pair head out for a night on the town, Saul is seen receiving a copy of her memoir — discovering a message in its spine. In Moscow, Carrie discretely trades purses with a woman in the ladies room of an old concert hall.
There’s an increasing amount of pressure on this idea that series need to “stick the landing” at the risk of tarnishing what came before it. We did want to put her in a place where it felt like she belonged, and, if not redeem, we wanted to repair the relationship with Saul a little bit. The idea was to cleave them apart in the most dramatic way possible and then to dramatize at the very end that first gesture of hers back to him. That gesture is, “Look, I know I destroyed somebody important in your life. I know that the asset was so important to national security that I am going to take that asset’s place.
It is so bizarre, after a decade of globe-trotting and filming on the East Coast, you had to film the finale in Los Angeles. One of our big thoughts too was allowing these characters to live on in the imaginations of our fans. There is comfort in this, because the story doesn’t end. It closes, but it doesn’t end. Carrie and Saul’s life continues, more in our audience’s minds than it ever is going to live in a film or another season. I don’t think that’s going to happen. It might. It does leave open that possibility, obviously.interrogated the American response to Sept. 11.
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