Stupid? Yes. Awful? Hell, no!

Promos are known to be cut together in all sorts of ways that tell an entirely different story than the actual episode. I am pretty damn spoilerphobic, but when I read "preview", I sometimes just read on, because I know they are full of shit.

Are you sure? I seem to remember that they were called and ordered to pack their stuff and leave. I thought it was nice how the two events were not correlated, but if that's wrong…a little disappointing, then. And scary, because then there must be a mole, after all. Which there probably is and I'm in denial, I really…

Yeah, I didn't like Carrie's overconfidence in the machine very much, either. But after watching Brody for weeks she probably got the feeling that he would easily crack. I guess she miscalculated the effect that her backseat action would have on Brody's confidence…

Thanks for clearing that up!
I figured as much, but wasn't sure and as mentioned, didn't matter, was funny anyway.

The two plot developments the reviewer feels might be "stupid"…the first one with Saul, I just disagree with and there is a (lengthy) reason why. The second one about the "Faisells", I am much more optimistic, but sure, I can see the problems.

Yes, they caught Carrie tailing Faisel several episodes before the episode in question. No mole needed for that.

Yeah, and they still got the Muslim hate every other season…
With this topic you can never make it right for everyone.

I remember that last week we argued against a narrow-minded person. This week you seem to be that person.

They are making you think of everyone at one point. Didn't you get a much clearer indication that Brody is up to no good? You seem to be hung-up on Saul. They made Brody almost a terrorist this week…

At first, I thought that was just establishing a baseline for a "complicated question", that will make you nervous, which after all is important for those tests to establish. Who really knows how to define "illegal drugs". They don't know about her illness.

Yes, he looked over to his wife. It looks like a scheme. At the very least, he wanted to smack Mike for weeks, now. 
There is zero doubt in my mind, that he knew about the affair. 
But it would still make sense for him to crack, when Mike takes matters into his hands (or fists, rather), the way that Brody should do.

Yeah, and although I didn't manage to get the joke, I had to laugh right with them.

Are you kidding? It's catchy, got it stuck in my head several times all over again. That drum is great.

Also, it's portable?

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Yes, I was a bit snappy. Sorry for that. I am tired of mole plots in every show. And then you go and (falsely) suspect a scene to be an indication of a mole and you announce it like it's the best original theory, ever. That got more than my snark going…

Yeah, it's not Walternate. That would be a repeat. It's not Bell, because you can't bring back Nimoy as a cartoon ever again. And it's kind of a repeat, as well.

Seeing as I didn't like that scene, I'd go without the "almost". 
 
Also found the Lincoln/Olivia scene off somehow…Lincoln seemed unusually beaten up about the shifter escaping. And Olivia sounded like she was trying to console him. Was he friends with the agent that got killed?

I wouldn't say "ignorant". Broyles referred to them as new shifters, meaning they also had the other ones. 
I liked how Peter used his shifter knowledge that he gained by executing them when a couple of them were innocent(?don't recall exactly, I guess he is forgiven).

Not in this universe, it won't.