My recollection is that Virgil was ex-CIA. Not sure about Max

It's not a reason at all. Claire Danes was made an EP because she's a fixture on the show, not vice versa.

I think it is this dude. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm…

That would have been effective, I agree, but the writer, or director, wanted to make it clear that Astrid would have got the best of the assassin if her gun was loaded.

And you're here in Season 6. Interesting

That's the reason you think it wouldn't happen? Really? What show in all of history has gotten rid of an Emmy-winning lead and replaced that lead with about the 30th most prominent character?

You're connecting dots that I'm not sure can be connected yet.

It's not hard to look up (try Wikipedia), and no, they did not clean house on writers, it's mostly the same crew.

It turns out the devastation of having your child taken away from you can lead to decreased discretion and judgment. Who knew.

Amir knew too much.

Right. Homeland was never one or the other, nor should it be.

ah, the days when Vanderwerff was allowed to write long-form, smart, episodic reviews. We didn't know how good we had it.

Well, thanks for getting the review up tonight, anyway. I don't know. Was it not a pretty big deal, Dar Adal working a full-blown life-destruction campaign on Carrie? I didn't find it to be lacking drama at all, and It's not distant from the main plot, it's very much connected.

By now you should know this is not the kind of show where the hero just shows up and saves the day with their gun. Of course Carre is trained in firearms, but, in this case, Carrie is a civilian, with a young daughter to take care of, and is under no obligation to risk her life to be a hero against a guy who is…

Darn that Showtime! Why don't they consider the plight of the hate-watchers??

Please writers, please, I hope they re-visit Virgil in the final season and he's now heading up a vast vending machine empire.

Yeah those two words of dialogue. I can't believe they didn't do more with that. Maybe 'Bon jour, Peter'. 'Or maybe flip it - 'Peter, Hello'! Now that's real writing.

You mean you don't all get together and drink wine and have a laugh about how your favored television shows are so far superior to those of the peons?

24: Legacy is a spin-off several years after the original series wrapped up. I don't think that's what AngryBro was suggesting

'Serious viewers of drama' ooooh I want in that club. Is it like Mensa?