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The word “tragedy” gets tossed around pretty often in Homeland, since it’s among the building blocks of speeches about terrorist attacks and the deaths of complicated patriots, the types of things that happen all the time in this show. But even for a show with tragedy so deeply woven into it, there’s something especially brutal about Astrid’s death.
Astrid is to Homeland as Oberyn Martell is to Game Of Thrones, the character you didn’t know you needed, then suddenly couldn’t live without. The character first appeared in “Krieg Nicht Lieb,” the penultimate episode of season four. But it seems like Astrid has been around far longer, thanks to her much needed sense of humor and Nina Hoss’ confident, understated performance. And the show’s producers know how much the fans have taken to Astrid. Rather than put Hoss’ name in the opening credits in “The Return,” they gave her a prestige credit after the final scene, all the better to surprise fans with.
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