1. Needs more Astrid. Didn't love seeing her relegated to Dar's designated watchperson for Quinn.

Astrid is my favorite secondary character ever to appear on "Homeland," so I was extremely excited to see her even if she might not be working on the side of All That Is Good and Holy. I'm interested to see where this arc in particular leads.

And they did have chemistry. Their scenes together were interesting, even when their lines were kind of trite. I loved the look on Conlin's face when he said "You really have no idea how offensive you are, do you?"

I forgive Homeland all sorts of nonsense, but I'm having an increasingly hard time with Quinn being the show's human pincushion.

I agree about the tension building up, and the threads that they're stringing are all interesting so far. But I do think they could use a more action-packed episode in the next couple of weeks, or at least one that focuses a little more on a single plot line.

Yes, I've always understood it to mean "bitter" or "sour-faced."

I also thought that we were going to get four perspectives or even five. Half an hour of Juliette was 29 minutes too much. I don't find her character interesting or appealing in the least, and I feel bad for Irene Jacob for getting saddled with that thankless role. I hope we won't have more of her next season.

I loved him so much in that movie that I've forgiven him for a lifetime of mostly bad role selection. And to this day, if I see his name in the credits, I'll pay attention (though I can't watch "Leverage").

Hadn't considered that possibility, but it's plausible, and I kinda like it.

Yes, exactly. The slow burn is one of the things Homeland is (usually) good at. I'm willing to wait to see where this one leads.

I got so excited when I saw Max that I actually jumped up off the couch. My husband, who has watched every episode right along with me: "Who's Max?"

I like it! Definitely an interesting way to revitalize his career.

I didn't quite laugh, and I was glad to have some of the fuzzier details of Noah's hallucinations clarified, but yeah, the episode bordered on silly. Noah was pitiable rather than loathsome this time, but I mostly just wanted that whole arc to be over. And as much as I wish we'd be done with Noah for the rest of the…

It may have been done before, or at least I can't say for certain that it hasn't. But this was definitely the first time it's happened with such an important scene. I liked how different Helen's perspective was, but I don't really get how Allison's perspective would not include her revealing that she was there that…

I don't think Sylva is a dark-horse possibility for final 4 at all—I think he's pretty likely. He's been consistently good all season in an undramatic way, and it seems clear that he has serious cooking chops. I'd be happy to see him win the whole thing.

Cole was completely right about Allison being irresponsible and only thinking of herself by taking that job. Not that we didn't already know that, of course, but it was so blatant this time.

I thought Clinton Hill or Crown Heights, from the little we saw.

I enjoyed it, though I found the Quinn scenes hard to watch. When the fake robber pistol-whipped him, I wanted to yell at the TV. Can we please just have, like, fifteen minutes with Quinn not in pain? Geez.

I'm pretty much only in it for the Pacey and the theme song at this point.

I agree completely that Helen is not a victim. With her current arc, she's also gone from somewhat sympathetic (despite being narcissistic and entitled) to painful to watch. In both perspectives this week, but especially her own, she was just pathetic, sneaking drugs to Noah, lying to Vik, and fucking Noah.