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Homeland (1 Viewer)

bostonfred said:
Maybe the iranian guys put mud on themselves like in predator.
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:lmao: :lmao:

Mario Kart said:
Riveting performances by Carrie and Saul tonight. Not much can be said about Carrie other than perfection tonight. Saul, the way he showed us his exasperation and then exuberation was awe inspiring. I have to give this episode a B though. Needed to move Dana's story forward and this episode did not. No mom either... not good for the longevity of the show.
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:lmao: :lmao:

 
I have a buddy who's a writer on this show. Major spoiler for the end of the season and how things end.

Seriously, turn back now if you don't want to know.

Chris and Dana pull some Iron Eagle #### and rescue Brody from Tehran. Chris and Dana are a little weirded out that Dad is wearing the slave-bikini that Leia had on in Jedi, but they don't mention it.

The baby is Saul's.
 
I have a buddy who's a writer on this show. Major spoiler for the end of the season and how things end.

Seriously, turn back now if you don't want to know.

Chris and Dana pull some Iron Eagle #### and rescue Brody from Tehran. Chris and Dana are a little weirded out that Dad is wearing the slave-bikini that Leia had on in Jedi, but they don't mention it.

The baby is Saul's.
 
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Haha, what a trainwreck. I love how the head of the CIA bails on the most important mission in his history before his team is extracted. None of this made sense, but it was actually entertaining in a Delta Force sorta way. Popcorn Sunday with Homeland is better than Teen Soap with Dana and Carrie's Nutso Adventures

 
We should catch the guy who orchestrated the CIA bombing, then blackmail him because we can prove he embezzled money.

We should then try to kill the guy above him so he gets more power, and is no longer afraid of being blackmailed.

We should fast forward Brody's drug addiction recovery into a Rocky workout to become a super spy.

We should trust Brody to save America, roughly a year or two after he murdered the vice president and plotted to blow up a bunch of high ranking officials with a suicide vest that he was wearing.

We should have a bunch of CIA guys drive Brody around in Iraq, and kill the police officers who question them.

We should have them drive through unknown terrain at night.

We should kill all of them and claim we caught brody.

We should launch hellfire missiles at them and start an international incident.

All of these plans occurred to them. But not:

We should have him run 100 feet that way.

 
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bostonfred said:
We should catch the guy who orchestrated the CIA bombing, then blackmail him because we can prove he embezzled money.

We should then try to kill the guy above him so he gets more power, and is no longer afraid of being blackmailed.

We should fast forward Brody's drug addiction recovery into a Rocky workout to become a super spy.

We should trust Brody to save America, roughly a year or two after he murdered the vice president and plotted to blow up a bunch of high ranking officials with a suicide vest that he was wearing.

We should have a bunch of CIA guys drive Brody around in Iraq, and kill the police officers who question them.

We should have them drive through unknown terrain at night.

We should kill all of them and claim we caught brody.

We should launch hellfire missiles at them and start an international incident.

All of these plans occurred to them. But not:

We should have him run 100 feet that way.
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:lmao:

At every point of the operation, all I could think was "Why doesn't he just ####ing WALK?!?!?"

 
biggamer3 said:
Haha, what a trainwreck. I love how the head of the CIA bails on the most important mission in his history before his team is extracted. None of this made sense, but it was actually entertaining in a Delta Force sorta way. Popcorn Sunday with Homeland is better than Teen Soap with Dana and Carrie's Nutso Adventures
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None of it made any sense in any way shape or form. It was just confusingly bad.

 
I'm just waiting for the completely inappropriately timed "Brody, I'm pregnant" revelation. I was hoping for right in the middle of the mission control room last night.

 
Carrie made an especially psychotic Carrie Face when she was worried about Brody being killed. Her eyes went back and forth rapidly, five or six times.

 
Plot-wise, very little happened in last week's episode, which covered maybe a few hours in Brody's attempt to cross the border into Iran, but which did so in tense and efficient style. An awful lot, meanwhile, happens in "Big Man in Tehran" — among other things, it's the second episode in the last three to feature a time jump midway through — and while some individual pieces of it work (mostly, again, the suspense scenes where Brody and/or Carrie didn't know what was about to happen, plus anything involving Saul cursing out other individuals), on the whole I was left wishing the creative team had compressed some earlier episodes of the season so the events of this one could have been spread out over a couple of hours.

In particular, I would have liked to actually see some of the events of the six days we skipped over — including Brody's rise to Iranian celebrity (and American embarrassment) and Brody's refusal to be exfiltrated by Saul — rather than simply hearing about them. After a couple of seasons where Brody has for the most part been an open book to the audience, here we finally had a scenario where his behavior could have been harder to read, and where we would have been reasonably guessing as much as Carrie and Saul — in other words, back in the emotional position where the series functioned best back in season 1. Instead, his mysterious motivation goes on for less than half an episode before he brains Akbari(*) with an ashtray and grabs a pillow to finish the job. Like the show burning through the "the CIA uses Carrie as bait to turn Brody" story arc last season in essentially an episode, this feels like "Homeland" having bad pacing issues and/or priorities.

(*) Okay, Vice-President Walden being alone in a room with Brody without bodyguards being present isn't wildly unreasonable, but I'm having a much harder time with the ultra-paranoid head of the Republican Guard doing the same. Also, the show hasn't done the best of jobs explaining who in both the Iranian government and Abu Nazir's organization (including his widow) knew Brody was a patsy and who believed him to be the actual Langley bomber.

In Akbari's office, Brody talks about wanting to redeem himself, but we're at a point in the series where his redemption is ultimately less important than Carrie's. Whether he lives or dies in next week's finale — and I don't even want to think about the contortions that would be necessary to keep him alive — his usefulness to the show is at an end. Story-wise, there's nowhere for a spy drama to go with a man this (in)famous, but the series clearly still fancies Carrie as the heroine here. So the fact that she's ultimately right about Brody is a good thing, in that it's the only way for her to be this obnoxiously insubordinate without getting fired, and/or without making Saul look like an even bigger fool than he sometimes does for putting up with her. That said, there are ways to show her disagreeing with Saul and company without being as insufferable as she's been for pretty much the entire season. She has this blind spot about Brody, and "Homeland" has it as well, and we've now built up to this moment where we're meant to forgive all of Carrie's trespasses because the blind spot is revealed to be correct intuition. The problem is that she's been so grating for so long that her being correct in this situation doesn't feel like a victory — at least not one I'm eager to cheer.
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Yeah, they have to find a way to shoehorn the family into one of these episodes.

Maybe Chris stays home from school to accept delivery of a new big screen TV.

 
Damian Lewis and Claire Danes are both actors of some repute, right? At one point isn't one/both of them going to tap out of this bull####? I mean it's not like those Entourage jerkoffs who don't have anything better to do.

 
"Good said:
Damian Lewis and Claire Danes are both actors of some repute, right? At one point isn't one/both of them going to tap out of this bull####? I mean it's not like those Entourage jerkoffs who don't have anything better to do.
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Tap out of what? It's a huge hit, they're both either nominated or winning awards for it, and they're both great in their roles. The last 3 episodes have redeemed the season big time and the show is steamrolling to a huge finale.

 
RBM said:
"Good said:
Damian Lewis and Claire Danes are both actors of some repute, right? At one point isn't one/both of them going to tap out of this bull####? I mean it's not like those Entourage jerkoffs who don't have anything better to do.
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Tap out of what? It's a huge hit, they're both either nominated or winning awards for it, and they're both great in their roles. The last 3 episodes have redeemed the season big time and the show is steamrolling to a huge finale.
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yep and damian lewis is pretty damn good actor too.
 
It's not season 1 but season 3 is far better than season 2 and the past few episodes, since they got rid of Brody's family, have been very entertaining. It will never recapture what it was during the first half of season 1 but it is much better lately than most of you are trying to paint it.

 
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