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Homeland: Pilot (2011)
Want a good mystery thriller? Don't look here.
Show starts off very well. Is the protagonist really about to unearth a conspiracy or is she simply seeing delusions due to an unspecified psychotic illness she suffers from? Well, this has the makings of a good conspiracy/psychological/mystery paranoia thriller...until the last 30 seconds of the pilot just curb-stomps the whole premise by having the audience magically mind-read the suspected mole. Completely deflates the mystery/paranoia/psychological element. Apparently the creators think their audience is too dumb to be able to piece together clues with the protagonist and has to spoon-feed us with god-like insight (aka spoilers). Now, we get to "root" on the spunky, moody agent episode after episode to slowly discover what we already know. Hooray!