It struck me that Dana frames the whole thing as "we killed someone," when you know that if she had been driving and Finn was in the passenger's seat, it would have been "Dana killed someone."

It struck me that Dana frames the whole thing as "we killed someone," when you know that if she had been driving and Finn was in the passenger's seat, it would have been "Dana killed someone."

I also love that a lesser show would have milked this episode for some unnecessary Ben/Leslie drama.  Leslie would have freaked out about the quilt defacement and said something unforgivable about/to Ben's mom, or would have interpreted Ben's lack of confidence in her quilt plan as evidence of an insufficiency of…

I also love that a lesser show would have milked this episode for some unnecessary Ben/Leslie drama.  Leslie would have freaked out about the quilt defacement and said something unforgivable about/to Ben's mom, or would have interpreted Ben's lack of confidence in her quilt plan as evidence of an insufficiency of…

I love that April, after having been Ben's roommate and spending months with him in DC, is still ambivalent, at best, about being his friend.

I love that April, after having been Ben's roommate and spending months with him in DC, is still ambivalent, at best, about being his friend.

Who got the shrimp?  Who?!?

Who got the shrimp?  Who?!?

@avclub-6b160289536b8a7a7a2c161a02014e7c:disqus , at my parents' house there is a set of 1976 World Book encyclopedias with an article on "race" that, I shit you not, begins with the sentence, "There are three major human races: caucasoid, negroid, and mongoloid."  Then there is a helpful matrix of phenotypic…

@avclub-6b160289536b8a7a7a2c161a02014e7c:disqus , at my parents' house there is a set of 1976 World Book encyclopedias with an article on "race" that, I shit you not, begins with the sentence, "There are three major human races: caucasoid, negroid, and mongoloid."  Then there is a helpful matrix of phenotypic…

@avclub-7e1ce4ce3124fd9ecc13a151afcff11b:disqus , in the first episode, when Rayna is having an argument with her dad, he starts to say something about Teddy finding out the truth about Maddie before Rayna freaks out and starts shouting over him.

@avclub-7e1ce4ce3124fd9ecc13a151afcff11b:disqus , in the first episode, when Rayna is having an argument with her dad, he starts to say something about Teddy finding out the truth about Maddie before Rayna freaks out and starts shouting over him.

So, the title of Best Intergovernmental TV Couple, held briefly by Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt, has been nabbed in a last-minute upset by Carrie Mathison and Nicolas Brody…."Best" being a fluid concept.

So, the title of Best Intergovernmental TV Couple, held briefly by Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt, has been nabbed in a last-minute upset by Carrie Mathison and Nicolas Brody…."Best" being a fluid concept.

Alias did something similar in the middle of its second season, basically just exploding its entire premise in order to move the characters along to more interesting places, and it worked swimmingly for a couple of years.  Given that Homeland has superior writers and actors, I'm not too worried.

Alias did something similar in the middle of its second season, basically just exploding its entire premise in order to move the characters along to more interesting places, and it worked swimmingly for a couple of years.  Given that Homeland has superior writers and actors, I'm not too worried.

She could sell it as the best honeypot ever, there being real honey in it and all.

She could sell it as the best honeypot ever, there being real honey in it and all.

They're definitely burning through plot, but they've been doing that for a while and they haven't run out.  I don't know how much longer I could have gone watching everyone naysay Carrie while Brody dodges Jessica's phone calls and murders people.  The show's best scenes have all been about Carrie and Brody's…

They're definitely burning through plot, but they've been doing that for a while and they haven't run out.  I don't know how much longer I could have gone watching everyone naysay Carrie while Brody dodges Jessica's phone calls and murders people.  The show's best scenes have all been about Carrie and Brody's…