Quote (Spez @ Nov 7 2015 05:35am)
I don't love the show as much as some people do (probably because part of me just wishes Rubicon was still on the air) but they manage to do a couple things really well that make it worth watching. Claire Danes is great at being one step away from losing it, they make Brody really sympathetic despite what he's doing, and Brody's daughter is the best fucking teenage character I've ever seen on TV or movies. Seriously, she's moody and sullen almost all time, but she has never once been annoying and you always totally understand why she's acting the way she is. Fucking perfect casting.
Premiere was good, although how Brody is already a possible VP candidate I have no idea. Stunt casting or not, he's only been a politician for a year tops, which is not a good idea under any circumstances. I think that was my only real problem with the episode though. Well, that and the terrorist journalist, which is just dumb.
Disagree completely about the daughter, at first she was good but they over dramatized the fuck out of her about half way through and she just became super annoying. Plus they seemed to completely forget that they gave Brody a son.
Those children are by far the worst part of the show, only in there for extra unnecessary drama. You can tell the writers didn't really give a shit about their parts. At best his kids were impossible to care about, at worst they were super annoying.