'Homeland Season 4' Receives Mixed Reviews, Criticized For Being Hard to Digest due to its Bad Execution
"Homeland Season 4" recently received mixed reviews, and it seems that most still love watching the series. Both praised and criticized, the award-winning television series has become a punching bag of pop culture due to its plot twists that are sometimes hard to digest due to its bad execution. Though it swept Emmys back in 2012, it has not received not even one nomination this year.
However, the show’s critics and fans are up for another thrilling season as show runner Alex Gansa told LA Times that they are set to “reset” the show to regain its lost audience per on. It has a new international setting, as well as new characters and a new plot. It will focus on its former espionage theme, rather than the melodramatic theme it has incorporated in its past seasons.
One of its changes is Nicholas Brody’s absence in the new season due to his execution in the third season in Iran. Gansa calls it the “post-Brody ‘Homeland’” season, with Carrie having to carry on in a new geographical and emotional state that will make the story more entertaining.
The geographical setting has been changed drastically as it transfers to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The show was set to film in Turkey, but the production team has to change its plans, for the Turkish government has to approve every script of each episode.
It is during the pre-production meeting that they decided to film in Pakistan due to its “murky and double-dealing world” that Gansa says is perfect for American intelligence operation. Good thing, because it seems that the newest season shows great promise.
Carrie is now a boss in Kabul, Afghanistan, authorizing a missile strike gathered by her unit’s counterpart in Islamabad. Sadly, Franny, Carrie’s daughter is left back in Washington to her sister’s care due to the danger of her work.
To move to exotic locations has been a “palate cleanser,” as Gansa calls it, for the audience, as it provides new content to them. The change might be met with good criticism, but it might also turn out for the worse as its detractors might still see fault in its production. Whatever may happen, the Homeland team is contented with its production.
