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S8:E3 False Friends

Original Air Date: Feb 23, 2020

Carrie arranges a meeting. Haqqani finds trouble at home. Saul cuts a deal.
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"An old saying about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer comes to mind. As this final season of Homeland heats up, it’s getting harder to tell the difference."

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"One of the show’s best lines is delivered to Haqqani’s son when he says, “We are just strong enough never to lose and just weak enough never to win.” This is what leads to endless wars: a sense that victory for either side is never going to happen."

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Cast
Claire Danes
Carrie Mathison
Maury Sterling
Max
Costa Ronin
Yevgeny
Linus Roache
David Wellington
Numan Acar
Haissam Haqqani
Nimrat Kaur
Tasneem Qureishi
Mandy Patinkin
Saul Berenson
Sam Trammell
Vice President Ben Hayes
Elham Ehsas
Jalal Haqqani
Andrea Deck
Jenna Bragg
Cliff Chamberlain
Mike Dunne
Charles Brice
Staff Sergeant John Durkin
Sam Chance
Specialist Drew Soto
Octavio Rodriguez
Specialist Arturo Gonzales
Jason Tottenham
Alan Yager
Seear Kohi
Balach
Eugene Lee
General Mears
Beau Bridges
Vice President Ralph Warner
Written by
Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon
Developed for American Television by
Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa
Based on the original Israeli series "Prisoners of War" by
Gideon Raff
Directed by
Keith Gordon
Rating
TVMA
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Adult Content, Adult Language, Violence

8 Seasons, 96 Episodes

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  • Season 8

    Carrie Mathison's body is healing, but her memory remains fractured. While trying to broker peace with the Taliban in Afghanistan, Saul is dependent on his protégé's expertise. Against medical advice, Saul asks Carrie to assist him one last time.

    Season 8

  • Season 7

    After the attempted assassination of the president, Carrie Mathison is out of the White House while 200 members of the intelligence community are imprisoned. Now Carrie must prove that not all conspiracies are theories.

    Season 7

  • Season 6

    Carrie Mathison is back in the US on the streets of New York, fighting for the protection of civil liberties and against the abuse of power within our government. She remains in opposition with Saul, who is still with the CIA.

    Season 6

  • Season 5

    Out of the CIA and living in Berlin, Carrie is trying to start a new life but realizes now she's the one with a target on her back. One thing quickly becomes clear: she's never been at greater risk or with more to lose.

    Season 5

  • Season 4

    Carrie's CIA career takes off when she becomes an overseas station chief, but but every drone strike and tactical raid comes at a cost and she quickly learns the true price of power. Saul fights to stay in the intelligence game.

    Season 4

  • Season 3

    Carrie goes to extraordinary lengths to solve the latest crisis at the CIA; Brody struggles to survive; Saul must play many opposing sides to keep his job at the CIA.

    Season 3

  • Season 2

    Carrie continues her hunt for Abu Nazir while maintaining a complicated personal/professional relationship with Brody; Brody is forced to work more closely with the CIA; Saul discovers a clandestine plot.

    Season 2

  • Season 1

    Carrie investigates and ultimately becomes obsessed with returned POW marine Nicholas Brody, who may or may not be an al-Qaeda-trained terrorist; Brody struggles to resume his life with his wife and children whom he barely knows.

    Season 1
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