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(Warning: The following story contains major spoilers for the series finale of “Homeland”)

Showtime ended “Homeland” by giving Carrie (Claire Danes) one last, probably permanent, mission — sending her to spend the rest of her life publicly as an American pariah, and secretly as a spy for Saul.

For co-showrunner Alex Gansa, that was the most fitting way to end her eight-season journey, in what Gansa described as “not entirely tragic.” We’ll let him explain.

“We didn’t want to see her end in a way that killed hope,” Gansa told TheWrap. “We decided to give her a mission and decided to give her a guy, but also decided to make it clear that she sacrificed a hell of a lot to get there.”

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Carrie certainly sacrificed quite a lot over her eight years. She has virtually no relationship...

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Question: I need to know who that was in Randall’s kitchen in this week’s This Is Us!—Patricia

Ausiello: Crazy, right? Though I’ve been bound to secrecy, I can let this little tidbit slip: That scary moment from the midseason premiere pales in comparison to the shocking way a character we know and love reacts to something that happens in the next episode.

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Nic Cage’s remake of Left Behind looks to have some divine competition in the form of Final: The Rapture. “Don’t Miss the Most Important Film of Your Life” might sound like the filmmakers are laying it on a bit thick...

...unless you consider the objective of their film is to render the audience born again scared.

Final: The Rapture is starting to make its way around the country theatrically, mostly Florida at the moment.

Judging by the trailer for Timothy A. Chey’s entry into the subgenre I’ve come to dub “Rapture Porn,” when the Rapture occurs, the human race will be divided into two groups: those that seemingly walk around aimlessly and those that join armed gangs of roving killers. Marantha News calls Final: The Rapture “The Scariest Christian Movie Ever,” for what’s that worth.

No, I have no clue what Marantha News is either.

Low-budget horror film Final: The Rapture, about the end times foretold in the Bible, is aiming to convert cinemagoers to God – through terrible dialogue and cheap effects

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The Ten Commandments, The Passion of the Christ, the forthcoming Russell Crowe epic Noah – the Bible has long been a wellspring for filmmakers, who have also used a struggle between Christian good and evil in horror films from The Exorcist to Stigmata. But now Christianity and horror are being blended with pure evangelism in Final: The Rapture, a low-budget thriller that is – very slowly – sweeping the Us.

"We're trying to share this so their eyes will be opened … so people go home with hope," producer Susan Chey told the Orlando Sentinel, comparing it to a "Trojan horse" that would introduce people to faith. "The Christian community loves the film because they believe in the Book of Revelation,...