Um... Isn't heroic, gripping TV drama
about these assholes the last thing we ought to encourage?

As somebody put it in a comment at the NYT:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/homeland-recap-in-the-finale-carries-suburban-fantasy-is-dashed/?_r=1

It is a three way tie for who we care less about- Carrie's sister, Carrie's baby or Carrie's mother.

It was the age of the movie serial. Joe wrote cliffhangers, leaving the hero John Strong in a bad situation, then rescuing him at the beginning of the next episode. The series was an immense success, and Joe felt he was underpaid for his imagination.

At the end of the current episode, John Strong was knocked out, tied up, and thrown off of a high cliff, falling toward the rocks below. How would Strong survive? The audience was mesmerized with anticipation.

Joe delivered a note to his movie studio employer. "Gentlemen. No doubt you will be unhappy with me because of my demand, and this will be my last script for you. If you want this script, please deliver to me $200,000 in secure funds, in time for you to film the next episode. Sincerely, Joe."

The studio gathered its other writers in panic. Twenty-four hours of brainstorming yielded no ideas about how John Strong saves himself. Angrily and reluctantly, they met Joe's terms.

The messenger delivered Joe's script. The executives tore open the envelope. They read:
"Miraculously, John Strong escaped."

I don't watch that program.

I have noticed a trend of hard to explain endings or no real ending.

I watched an "art house" movie from Europe about a year ago and in the last 5 minutes or so the main characters suddenly act out of character. Thinking I had missed something major I read some reviews...most agreed. One believed it was the diretor giving the middle finger to all critics and audience in response to what was written about his previous film. That made as much sense as anything.

Does this help?

Former, that film didn't have Juliet Binoche in it, did it?

Thanks, Marion.

And PS Every time that baby showed up this season, we just wanted to hurl.