Originally Posted by CJClarke:
“Agreed, I thought it was a really good episode, it seems a bit silly to be writing off a 12 episode show after only 3 episodes, people need to have a bit more patience, it's obviously heading somewhere, this episode was just setting up the hopelessness of Brody and Carrie's situations, and there were loads of seeds planted for where it's potentially heading. It's back to the slow burn intrigue of Season 1 as opposed to the 24 clone that it turned into during Season 2 (I love 24, but Homeland is a different show, I don't want it ripping off 24 which it came dangerously close to doing last season), if you think back to season 1, that was really slow until the last few episodes.
This was a very dark episode, but far from "boring" on "uninteresting" if you're invested in the characters. I thought both Damian Lewis and Claire Danes were excellent in this episode.”
No, people don't 'need' to have more patience. It's a tv show and if people are bored with it after 3 episodes then they can stop watching it if they want.