Habit of reading too many New Yorker-esque pop-psychology pieces about what happens after you save someone's life. ;)

Are the useless guards dead?

I don't think he even wanted to invite him to join the team; he wanted to get him out of King's Landing before it fell. Once you save someone's life once, you sort of feel responsible for them again the future.

Or, if he's from the Vale, as if he's ready to keep nursing for another nine or ten years.

Doesn't she need to use the face of someone dead?

Not sure if someone already made this joke, but you might say this episode was "all guts no gory"?

Well played. All the more reason to be less excited about Room 104.

Hardly saying that the market can't bear two of those, I'm just pointing out that this isn't at all an original concept, and I'm not entirely sure why we'd even *want* an anthology series set in hotel rooms. I'm ready to be proved wrong, I guess.

Look it up; quite a few feet, actually, and Tim Roth kills.

Didn't Quentin Tarantino already do this with the highly underrated "Four Rooms"?

Four words you probably thought nobody would ever say:

And it'll remain a valid criticism of the show, up until one of the two types of narratives actually manages to distinguish itself or raise up the show as a whole.

Exactly. Chuck *wants* Ernesto to become Jimmy's ally; he *wants* Jimmy to attempt to recover that tape, to squirm, to panic, to make a mistake. Brilliantly constructed episode—the batteries might be dead, but "Better Call Saul" is far from out of juice!

if civilians had time to cluster around and take photos, and we saw that Carrie and Keane made no effort to leave the van (presumably until security arrived, even though said security was likely still compromised), then I'll stand by my assertion that McClendon's men *could* have still finished the job. They would…

You say "of course she'll have the arc," as if that's a normal thing for a television series to do. Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Dexter, etc.—these shows all introduced "new" characters each season, but they always used them to reflect upon the *main* characters. Even previous seasons of Homeland have generally done just…

Many of those employees are ex-intelligence. They might buy that Max has been fired, but they'd better bury his body deep. The point I'm making is that it's not unlikely that someone will piece it together.

They're not bad, but there's no denying that Homeland's sixth season benefits from a certain sort of relevance to current events. Season four serves as a soft reboot of the series, and in my opinion still has too many similarities with the original "trilogy." Season five is lean, but revolves around twin plots that…

I think you can safely skip seasons four and five. Whether you watch season six depends on whether you're OK with the extremely slow pace, and are intrigued by current American politics. If you're looking for a sexier version, check out "Quantico" instead. If you're looking for a more action-packed version, watch…

I have no doubt that Dar gave O'Keefe up; we know he gave up the other conspirators (like Senator Coto). The question remains whether Dar ever had anything damning to *give* Keane. You suggest that Dar might have been willing to lie about O'Keefe in order to get revenge for Quinn, but do remember that O'Keefe never…

Ham, we just don't know how involved O'Keefe was. How much was O'Keefe told about Sekou Bah, or was he merely fed classified information, which he happily leaked in order to attack his target? Do you think he knew about Conlin's visit, or his subsequent murder?