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A Split Woman and a Spy
Carrie Mathison is obsessed with her job at the CIA resp. somewhere in the field of politics, embassies, agencies … She is firmly committed to do whatever possible to prevent any new attack like 9/11 after the disaster. When convinced by a hint in the mountains of information the CIA gets and processes concerning counterterrorism Carrie marches straighforward ignoring any concerns and advices and often also any legal restrictions. For she is successful … she gets away with it … sometimes of course paying a high price.
At the same time she is a split woman depending on psychotropic drugs to manage her bipolar disorder. Again and again this is an impediment, but Carrie seems invincible. When active in an operation she ignores even her family and her little daughter, a love child from her relationship to a marine torn between his country, his duties and his feelings for Islam after a long captivity in the hands of Islamic terrorists. This is the story that starts it all … and Carrier later on is busy with a lot of fallout of this affair and the political and defense measures of the following years.
I don’t want to go into further detail concerning the plots of the seasons. There is a bombshell at the end of the series … Each season is exciting and at the same time depressing when realizing how minimal any progress and success is, having a death toll in tow, but politically the fronts are quickly redefined making enemies to friends.
Carrie is the protagonist of mainly a spy thriller, but she has to deal with murder conspiracies and terroristic strikes. A certain amount of mundane crime exists amid all this counterterrorism and terroristic acts.
Carrie is another type of spy like the prototypes from the 50s or 60s who worked clandestine and murdered alike – international terrorism wasn’t on stage at these times. Even James Bond literarily born in the 50s became the omnipotent world savior only later in the 90s and the following decades in the movies. Carrie is more down-to-earth and goes for the dirty work, but nevertheless the risks are high and the terroristic plans may set fire to our world. Another spy of this new type is Jack Bauer from the series 24.
… and of course it’s a series for binge-watching!