A completely tense series from start to finish: Homeland Season One

Season 1 of "Homeland" did not disappoint in the least - unlike so many other series, it kept me thinking and engaged and tense right to the last moment, and had enough unresolved plot lines and hints and suggestions of further developments to keep my thinking and waiting without leaving me with the feeling of a plot in search of itself or a blatant, pandering cliffhanger. Claire Danes great throughout the season and outdoes herself in last episodes, when her bipolar disorder comes into play and becomes a major plot point: the conspiracy she sees all around her could very well be, to others and even to herself when she realizes how sick she is, just a paranoid fantasy - except we know she's onto something, though we're not entirely sure of all of the parameters of the conspiracy. We certainly understand why her CIA colleagues and others would elieve she's just mentally deranged. I had suggested two big plot outcomes in earlier posts - neither of which came to fruition - but I still suspect these elements might be developed further in Season 2: (spoilers): We know that Estes was involved in a cover-up because he didn't want it known he gave the OK to drone bombing of civilians. Is it worse than that? Is he actually taking funds from Al Qaeda? Second, we know that "Isa" was killed in a drone attack on Iraq; is it possible that Abu Nazir sacrificed his own son to the cause? We still don't really know how the terroristis communicated with the "turned" POWs Brody and Wallace (?), and I for one am not ye completely convinced that Brody would turn against his country because of the drone bombing that killed children. There may be more to this yet. In any case, of all the thriller series I've seen over the past few years, several of which involve domestic terrorism (Sleeper Cell one of the best), Homeland is by far the best crafted and probably the best acted as well, at least among the leads (yes, I have come to kind of like the rumpled and mumbly Mandy Patinkin as Danes's mentor and father-figure).