I'm not sure what's ludicrous about that, given the context of what precedes it. He's not apologizing for trying to undermine Keane. He's apologizing for the fact that it got out of his control, that men like McClintock tried to *actually* kill the president and that O'Keefe tried to frame Quinn. A few stray civilians…

Right, O'Keefe's complicity is questionable. If his propaganda company was hired to put out a hit piece on Quinn, they might be opening themselves up to a civil libel suit (by Quinn, perhaps), but it'd be hard to prove that O'Keefe actually knew *why* they wanted Quinn to be set up in this fashion. O'Keefe himself…

I'd have to go back and watch, but I'm fairly sure they described Dar's actions as illegal. I'm not sure that O'Keefe's operation was ever breaking a law.

Dar and the opposition have *lost*. They set out to stop Keane from dismantling the intelligence agencies, potentially weakening their country from external threats. What they achieved was to turn Keane into the sort of person who would do exactly that. It gives credence to what O'Keefe has been saying all along, but…

I mean, the recapper literally says "Apparently I’m missing quite a bit."

They had time to reposition. McClendon had (or should have had) men on the ground or in vehicles. I find it absurd that after orchestrating all of these various conspiracies (including the detonation of a bomb in Midtown that only manages to kill two or three people), the cabal doesn't even *try* to get someone in…

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Pin, I (and others) have already elaborated on this below, and there are other recaps out there that explain just how plausible (and foreshadowed) Keane's shift really is. Interested to what you think about those theories; I hear you about Designated Survivor, though. I like some of what that show is doing, but it's…

Yes, it would have required blowing an already potentially blown cover. I don't disagree with you. But a sniper could have waited for Keane to get out of her car, no? And any Delta operative who actually killed Keane in plain view could have been written off as a "toxic soldier" in the same way in which O'Keefe…

Slight disagreement. You don't need to like the show you're reviewing. You do, however, need to be able to defend your rationale for disliking the show.

Agreed. But then again, you and I have been largely in agreement in our discourse throughout this season.

I love it when people rip apart a show that I admire. I just dislike it when the arguments that are being made in order to do so don't seem grounded in the show itself. It'd be like arguing a murder trial and citing opinions as hard evidence.

Has Brett O'Keefe done anything illegal? I'm assuming Keane and her office have continued to out him for his propaganda machine, but she's done that already, and his fans didn't care. I'm not sure she can sue him for libel or anything, since he's sharing his First Amendment guaranteed opinions. I'm sure she wants to…

Actually, that was the bit that really confused me. McClendon might be able to cover things up so long as the president actually dies. (And where has the vice president been through all of this?) But I find it unfathomable that the remaining Delta Squad members (we only saw two of them) wouldn't pursue Quinn's van out…

If that sequence with Keane becoming the villain was a last-minute rewrite, then they somehow perfectly seeded that arc throughout every other episode. You can see how Keane changes from episode to episode, from earnestly trying to change (alongside Carrie) and becoming more open (after speaking to Diehl) to being…

Also, come on. "Your humble reviewer"? I can at least understand some of the arguments you've made this year, and appreciate the ways in which you've forced me to more clearly set forth my own points here, but let's not pretend that you've been particularly "humble" about any of it.

Yup. How much you enjoyed this season of Homeland really depends on whether you picked up on this basic fact or not. (There were still plenty of flaws in executing this twist about Keane, but while other aspects of the season might have sucked, this particular one was well-earned.)

I'm glad someone else is understanding this. The season has a terrific arc; the problem is that it's only for Keane. Quinn, Max, Saul, and even Carrie more or less get written under the bus.

He's been saying that since the beginning of the season. It doesn't feel contrived so much as it's an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy, much the same as the way that we make and cultivate enemies by our own extralegal actions.

The whole "Keane's a villain" thing is actually *really* well done. It's the one consistent thing about the season. You can see, very clearly, the scenes in each episode that contributed to her increasing paranoia and anger against the intelligence community. She's a monster, sure, but one that was created *by*…