Homeland Recap: Trust
About halfway through the deeply flawed last season of Homeland, I started to fight with it. A year later, here I am again: not so much watching episode 6 as tearing it apart, tacking its pieces on the...
View ArticleHomeland Recap: The Damage We Do
Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign”: The word within a word, unable to speak a word, Swaddled with darkness. “Gerontion,” T.S. Eliot In 1919, working at a bank to support his poetry...
View ArticleHomeland Recap: Personal Time
This week on Homeland, everybody needs a few days off, no one wants to say why, and we’re all running out of time. Which brings up something I notice even at my boring job: the more aware we become of...
View ArticleHomeland Recap: That’s The Play
What’s everybody talking about this week, in real Washington and fake Washington? Iran, of course! It’s the world’s hottest club! It’s the next big thing! It’s where Brody’s headed, on that CIA...
View ArticleHomeland Recap: Pull Down the Shades
It’s the third-season finale, and everyone on Homeland has terrible timing. One major character sees his Tehran operation begin to take root on his last day as Director. Another realizes what she wants...
View ArticleHomeland Recap: 302, A Dangerous Question
These voices in your head are not your friends right now. You have to make them go away. – The Doctor to Brody, Tower of David When we last saw Carrie, drugged and surly in the TV room of her mental...
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