Homeland showrunner breaks down shocking series finale, explains final scene
ended its eighth and final season Sunday with a tense episode that forever changed the fate of Carrie Mathison.in the interview that follows.
Below showrunner Alex Gansa talks to EW about the fitting end to the drama series, and answers some of our lingering questions.: Not that long. We started talking about the finale as we got episodes nine and 10 as we were breaking the season. Like, "If we make this decision here, where is it going to lead? How are we going to get to an ending that we like?" We knew we wanted Carrie to wind up in Russia. We had that as a landmark ahead of us.
And she was responsible for the death of a very important American asset in Moscow, and she betrayed her country. That's just undeniable. She did it for her own reasons, but she's got blood on her hands for sure.I think she does. She loves him in the way that Carrie can love somebody. But, of course, she's using him too.
I leave that up to our fans. I think. I think that she felt very strongly about avoiding another mass casualty situation. If she could have done anything to stop that, I think she would go pretty far – that's my opinion as somebody who wrote those scenes. She knew that she wasn't going to kill Saul in the scene. She was hoping to scare him to death so that he would give her the asset's name.
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