Don't give up on Homeland yet

I understand that many viewers have bailed on the Showtime Homeland, and I guess I can see why, as Season 4, without the dynamic relationship between Brodie and Kerry (Claire Danes) and without the enigmatic issue of whether Brodie is a wounded hero or a conniving traitor, or both, the show does lose some of its moxie, its raison d'etre. That said, we still have Danes, she of the most expressive face in pictures, and a pretty good if sometimes convoluted narrative about the CIA efforts to get to the heart of a terrorist ring in Pakistan. There are some tremendously exciting street scenes throughout the first 4 episodes, some really good cinematography that captures what we (or I) at least imagine the far east to look like (I think I read most is filmed in Jordan?) - scenes that had to be a tremendous challenge to stage and capture. The story centers in a Benghazi like uprising, which initially seems to be a crowd outraged by US air strikes against a target that ended up killed nearly an entire wedding party; soon, this becomes a little more complex, as they realize that attack was engineered and planned - and then we learn even more layered and nuanced information about the air strike - which I will give away here - that it was a set up, feeding false info to the US to get us to bomb an innocent target and create an outrage (also to get us to think that the target was killed, allowing him to go on living outside of surveillance). There are a # of subplots, including an ambassador's husband who sells state secrets - the mirror image of a plot element in an earlier season in which CIA honcho Mandy Patinkin was betrayed by his wife - though the wife betrayal was far more degrading. In episode 4 Danes, quite improbably I think, seduced a young Pakistani in order to win him over - using sex for political (and personal?) gain - I know Danes/Kerry is a troubled and impulsive figure, but I think she should feel degraded by or at least ambivalent about her actions - as did, for example, Xtina Hendricks in Mad Men - but I'm afraid that they may play this as: Kerry will do anything to win, to get her way. Intrigue between her and Patinkin is strong, the silent rage of her partner Quinn, who also seems to carry a torch for Kerry, is a promising plot element, and Kerry's abandonment of her daughter tells us a lot about her personality - if it does strain credibility (would she really have carried the pregnancy to term? for that matter - does a CIA station chief have any authority to call for an air attack on a civilian target?).