I don't know. She's talked about having another baby, the film roles could start pouring in, etc. I think this role is more taxing on her than Dexter Morgan was on Michael C. Hall. We might also consider that Showtime didn't really have another drama to succeed Dexter until Homeland. Now they have MoS and several…

In all sincerity, my guess is Homeland gets 5, 6 seasons at most. I have this pristine image in my head of Claire Danes wanting to move on, and I don't think the creators would go on without her. Wishful thinking? Probably.

If she wasn't supposed to be in there in the first place she would want to get out. She was isolated. Saul wasn't talking to her. I think the show did a good job of showing how suffocated and frustrated she was. She would still be attractive as an asset outside the hospital, because she'd still be a pariah.

As far as I'm concerned that never happened. They even took the sound byte out of the credits!

Originally in the testimony Saul says, "whatever happened on my watch I take full responsibility for" and then the Senator says, "Answer the question" and he full-on blames Carrie. So maybe they agreed to the former version but not the latter. Also, the reality of this happening was probably worse than what she…

If you rewatch the scene there is definitely a sense of inevitability in her facial reactions. It morphs from "is he really about to do this?" to "will he just do it already." There is a shot right before Saul says, yes Carrie did hide her relationship from me, where Carrie raises her eyebrows and nods her head like…

Carrie's mother is alive but she has not spoken to her in probably 15 years, and anyone who knew Carrie on a personal level (i.e., not from a file) would know that.

Maybe it was cab money so she could get to Saul. She literally had no money.

I think her teary line that this is "too hard" shows that the weight of what this has done to her (professionally, psychologically, physically) is not lost.

I think Carrie knew the general arc of the plan but not the degree to which she would be ostracized, hence her closing line that this is too hard and Saul should have gotten her out of the hospital. I don't think Saul shared that with her. He is very much the puppet master this year.

It's also unrealistic for not one but TWO Marines to be turned in captivity, which was the whole premise of the show originally. Homeland has never claimed to be that realistic.

This makes me wonder whether she'll actually go off her meds again. If she saw the time in the hospital as not valuable (i.e., "I'm only here because it's part of the ruse"), and if she still believes strongly that she's better when off her meds… Oh, Carrie…

The best part about the twist is that it doesn't negate everything that happened in the first three episodes on an *emotional* level. Carrie was still kept in a psych ward for too long, called crazy, isolated and ostracized — she tells Saul he shouldn't have kept her in there that long. There is a trust there that has…

Carrie really did go off her meds. She really does believe that being on them caused her to "miss something." So she was a little unhinged alone. The scene at the end of the first episode where she is watching Saul — I think hearing those things, that she was deranged and having this relationship revealed on national…

Absolutely. Both vastly underestimated the psychological toll this would take on her and the degree to which she would be isolated and ostracized.

I give this an A even though the Dana/Leo stuff was meh. At least it wasn't laundry sex. Carrie and Saul is all I care about. That was brilliant.

I feel extremely confident that won't happen. I don't see a happy ending for him or for him with Carrie. This show is too cynical.

Well I mentioned "The Fly" because it was an episode that played with structure, but maybe "The Crash" is a better comparison because it was experimental and caused a very polarized reaction among the audience.

Episodes that play with structure and a show's universe/reality are often divisive. Breaking Bad's "The Fly" or Mad Men's "The Crash" are two recent examples.

A foreign government? I have no idea. This is the end of the line for Brody. Maybe Carrie's extensive network of owed favors allowed for him not to be killed.