Carrie being pregnant is the most ridiculously insane thing this show has ever done. If the baby is Brody's I'm gonna have an aneurysm. UGH.

Both.

Although this comment is spectacular, I thought their conversation in the car was kind of wink-winky.

She was pregnant IRL. My guess is no.

I think it's grey morality. I don't think the writers are making him evil, but they are showing that he's rather oblivious to the strain this is having on Carrie. Last episode she tells him she can't go on, he should have gotten her out of the hospital, etc. and he didn't really seem to listen. This episode Carrie is…

I absolutely agree with this. It is a very teenage girl thing to do to find solace in another boy. I also understand that Dana can't relate to anyone in her family, and she thought she could relate to Leo.

Would Jessica have room to be indignant given that she had sex with Mike last season, too? I liked seeing that shift, though, given the previous time they interacted all she could say to Carrie's accusations was, "You fucked my husband!" They've all got bigger fish to fry now anyway.

Or, as Carrie told Brody she would, she is doing it to clear his name. I hope the Carrie/Brody storyline is over too (and I'm with you that I think this is where they're going), just playing devil's advocate.

If Chris wasn't in the scene, everybody would have been asking, "Where's Chris?!" The show can't win in that respect.

Yeah, it was tabloid fodder. Carrie cut the article out of a newspaper and put it on her bulletin board. It's not that far off for Jessica to assume that, especially since she's taken interest in their family before.

I am beginning to wonder if Carrie still believes Brody is innocent. Clearly her "what if I told you I don't think Brody did it!" at her Senate hearing was all for show to make her seem even more looney. I wonder if that's the truth, though.

Perhaps but Brody's strongest and richest relationship was with his daughter, not his wife. Carrie made a good point that if he was going to reach out to anyone, it would be to Dana.

I wish Dana and Carrie could have a chat.

Maybe in a few episodes someone will tell Carrie that Brody was her Jordan Catalano.
(I would counter that they are audiency winky when they want to be. Need I remind you of the Inigo Montoya reference on Carrie's notebook in episode 1 this season?)

… or the pointed Romeo + Juliet reference. (Also, all the "fuckfests" Carrie and Brody went on…)

You liked it just the same as last week, which you also gave a B? You liked it less than "Broken Hearts," which you gave a B+? Homeland is a tricky show to grade, I realize.

I'm sort of at a loss for how you're grading this show now, Todd. Anyway, I liked this episode more than you, not as much as last week, but this was a nice table-setting episode. Very much after/before the storm. The final 10 to 15 minutes were terrifying and I was on the edge of my seat.

The hand-stabbing wasn't a plot twist with a four-episode-long ruse. It was resolved 5 minutes later. It was also far less important to the season's direction. Carrie's interactions/flirtation with Brody before she arrests him is not a twist either, since the show is clear on the fact that she is doing this to lure…

It has to play both ways, and Claire Danes was told to play it so it could be read both ways. It doesn't make me uncomfortable because I don't feel like they've "overused" this type of twist—in fact the only other major plot twist they've done was revealing that Brody had been turned after we thought that Walker was…

Wow, I had no idea he was making that much, especially when you consider how much Cranston was making and Hamm is currently making. But Claire Danes has received more accolades than Michael C. Hall ever did — this could work both ways in that she just keeps a good thing going, but she might also have more lucrative…