It is the critically-acclaimed drama that has had audiences on both sides of the Atlantic on the edge of their seats, but after Homeland's season finale, some fans were left feeling unsatisfied after what they considered to be an anti-climatic ending to the drama.
For some viewers of the hit series, many questions were left unanswered as the drama ended on a cliffhanger, paving the way for a second series. The drama followed Carrie Mathison - played by Claire Danes - a CIA operations officer who, after conducting an unauthorised operation in Iraq, is put on probation and reassigned to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center in Langley, Virginia.
Viewers watched the season finale as Brody's suicide vest failed to detonate when he was escorted to a bunker with the vice-president and his clique of politicians. But so determined is he to carry out his mission, that he disappears into a toilet cubicle to repair the switch himself. Again, ready to switch the button - only a pleading call from his teenage daughter stops him from carrying out his murderous mission.
Fans also saw CIA agent Carrie finally succumbed to her bi-polar disorder and check herself into hospital for electric shock treatment... only for viewers to hear her mutter a vital piece of the puzzle before she was put under.
Following the show, viewers took to Twitter and various forums to express their amazement or disappointment. One wrote: 'So after weeks and weeks of leading us to believe that Brody was some kind of terrorist plotting against the American establishment, it turns out that Brody is ... some kind of terrorist plotting against the American establishment.'
Another added: 'Cleverly done but can't help but feel a tad underwhelmed', while another viewer said: 'Bitterly disappointed with that ending - the last 20 minutes were one long advert for series two. Few questions were answered. Who was the fecking mole? I hope this doesn't turn into another Lost, a great first series that does well and then dragged out to death for another 84 seasons.'
For some viewers of the hit series, many questions were left unanswered as the drama ended on a cliffhanger, paving the way for a second series. The drama followed Carrie Mathison - played by Claire Danes - a CIA operations officer who, after conducting an unauthorised operation in Iraq, is put on probation and reassigned to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center in Langley, Virginia.
Viewers watched the season finale as Brody's suicide vest failed to detonate when he was escorted to a bunker with the vice-president and his clique of politicians. But so determined is he to carry out his mission, that he disappears into a toilet cubicle to repair the switch himself. Again, ready to switch the button - only a pleading call from his teenage daughter stops him from carrying out his murderous mission.
Fans also saw CIA agent Carrie finally succumbed to her bi-polar disorder and check herself into hospital for electric shock treatment... only for viewers to hear her mutter a vital piece of the puzzle before she was put under.
Following the show, viewers took to Twitter and various forums to express their amazement or disappointment. One wrote: 'So after weeks and weeks of leading us to believe that Brody was some kind of terrorist plotting against the American establishment, it turns out that Brody is ... some kind of terrorist plotting against the American establishment.'
Another added: 'Cleverly done but can't help but feel a tad underwhelmed', while another viewer said: 'Bitterly disappointed with that ending - the last 20 minutes were one long advert for series two. Few questions were answered. Who was the fecking mole? I hope this doesn't turn into another Lost, a great first series that does well and then dragged out to death for another 84 seasons.'
Claire Danes herself recently revealed that she found the process of filming Homeland confusing, saying at the time: "I'm still not entirely clear what it is we're making and I'm so embedded in the process of making it that I can't see the forest for the trees. It's always shifting on its axis."
The season finale, called Marine One, pulled in nearly 3 million viewers on Channel 4 Sunday night.
