by Lee Padrick, October 31, 2013
Homeland - S1E4
WARNING: This review contains spoilers.
Here's a life lesson for folks. If you ever find yourself cornered, just think of where you would rather be. Then go there. If it works for Homeland, it will work for you.
This episode's twist is totally unexpected, at least for me. So Carrie has been working with Saul all along? And the plan was to get the Iranians to contact Carrie about providing them with sensitive information? Sure, that makes sense. Consider that Carrie has risked her life for her job and country multiple times in the past, so naturally she will jump ship and commit treason at the first opportunity that she gets to exact revenge on Saul's harsh treatment of her. Or not.
by Lee Padrick, October 16, 2013
WARNING: This review contains spoilers.
Brody's back! And thing's are not going well for him.
When we last saw Brody (Damian Lewis, the 2012 Best Actor in Drama Emmy winner), he was sneaking into Canada and on the run. He shows up in this third episode of Season Three and because of a $10 million bounty on his head, he has caught a bullet on the Columbian/Venezuelan border. He is taken in by local drug lords from Caracas.
The drug lords take him to an unfinished high-rise somewhere in Caracas and his wound is treated by Graham (Erik Dellums), a pedophilic "doctor" that's found a home in the Tower of David, a project that was started by an Evil Banker, but never finished, and is the home of squatters and those folks under the protection of El Nino and his gang.
by Lee Padrick, October 15, 2013
WARNING: This review contains spoilers.
Homeland's second episode of the season gives us a good idea of where the writers are taking us this season. And the destination looks like ... well, nothing we haven't seen before. Carrie (Claire Danes) is full-blown manic and unmedicated, and she spends the majority of the episode walking around bug-eyed. Something we've seen in Seasons One and Two. Carrie is taken into protective custody by police officers as she's sitting down to spill national security secrets to a reporter (who also appears skeptical of anything Carrie tells her). And Carrie is scheduled for a Commitment Hearing, but she loses it at the beginning of the proceedings. She is institutionalized and sedated against her will.
