I don't know what "running out of sand on an IT crisis" means, but I find it implausible that an operation that large could go for as long as it had without having someone on hand who was competent to fix a problem of that nature. Max being the right guy at the right time seems awfully convenient, and if the situation…

That's funny; this was probably my *least* favorite episode of Homeland this season:

I didn't say that conservatives bought what she was selling. I was saying that it was a part of her platform. But if you think that Clinton was successfully marketed as a "great progressive" then I think you're misunderstanding why Bernie—a grassroots candidate—was able to even challenge her in the first place. The…

And yet, any operative must, at some point, leave their firearm somewhere. She didn't leave it out in the open in her car. She hid it in her car, and parked her car in an abandoned location to which nobody *other* than Quinn would reasonably have even approached. I mean, would you critique her, too, if she'd left the…

What @avclub-0e9a570f97a6f2a4e1326a10228176a4:disqus said; Clinton very much wanted to keep us involved in the overseas wars. That was one of her selling points to conservatives, in fact, and one of the major uneases liberals had with her. Keane, by contrast, has been depicted as someone who, through personal tragedy,…

This is the one question I still have. I'm wondering if this was done to prove to us either that Dar doesn't have full control over the Watch-Cap-Wearing Guy (he's just someone convenient to him, like Brett O'Keefe), or so as to demonstrate that after Dar's meeting with Quinn, he realized that Quinn was still a…

I don't know, maybe someone who is desperately trying to convince Quinn to trust her? Someone who, as she tries to say at the end of the episode, loves him? She's not playing him like an agent. That's why her death is tragic—because he *treats* her like one.

Aphasia? Elliot O'Keefe? I feel as if we're watching entirely different shows now.

Question: Did Syd kill people the last time she was in his body? Or did Lenny, no longer held in check by a mutant as powerful as David, just take the opportunity? The way he killed the people in Clockworks is the same as the way he killed them at D3, after all.

If you liked that, watch "Misfits."

I can tell you with certainty (unless Joshua works for Showtime) that the reviewer did *not* watch this episode months ago.

Yeah, my theory is that he was either guarding the door or working elsewhere and busted in when he heard that they'd brought in Javadi.

My point was that Carrie could have come to that meeting more prepared. If her bipolar condition not only didn't impair her parenting, but hadn't interfered with her work for the CIA (as she claimed), then why didn't she go over that with her lawyer and have some sort of defense prepared in case such an issue were…

I think he meant that there's bound to be a Carrie and Saul scene *coming*. I think we've had one of those so far, in "Fair Game" (which Saul asks Carrie if she's working for Keane). That said, Saul doesn't *know* that Carrie is working for Keane, and Keane might not be working with Carrie much longer, so I'm not…

I'm glad you're enjoying the series, Shrike. I, too, came to Homeland via 24 (and my recent revisiting of 24: Legacy shows how badly that series has aged), and I'm happy to find Homeland so critical of its own conventions. I don't think it's anti-establishment, though, so much as a warning light for our worst…

That's true, and CPS is a little unfair, but bear in mind that these are not permanent rulings. "Imminent Risk" is one of those guidelines that supersedes common law out of the best interest of the child, and it can be appealed and overcome later on. Consider, too, the way in which you can be imprisoned without being…

I think it's fair that Amir was working for Ameer, the torturer, but had a change of heart upon seeing his former captain, a brother, on the table. It's an interesting little vignette about the extent of loyalty.

I think it's a matter of priorities with Keane—a bomb just went off in Manhattan and one of her trusted advisers has turned to alcohol. She is *not* going to enable that sort of behavior. (Dar's also gotten in her head about how unstable Carrie is.)

Out of curiosity, what's so ridiculous about the DCS agent being involved with Dar? Presumably, the only reason the agency started sniffing around Franny in the first place was because he asked them to, as a means of distracting Carrie.

Sadly, I think it's Carrie who has to prove her qualifications. Why did she not call a witness to testify on her behalf from the CIA? Or produce some sort of honorable recommendation to talk about how her bipolar condition never caused any risk?