Sure, I'll bite. Where's the link? What's the evidence. Are we talking about the "scoop" about there having once been a wiretapping operation in Trump Tower?

The sad truth is that Jones/O'Keefe are right: there are people who, no matter what, will continue to hate Keane. The sort of people who would criticize the way a soldier *runs*? Even if that person is an O'Keefe plant, it's hard to fathom someone being able to actually say those words about a dead soldier, to that…

You think Homeland ends with a happy ending for Carrie? What, is she going to go move into the woods to be alone and stumble upon lumberjack-y Dexter Morgan?

I don't disagree that this would never happen in the real world. Keane's advisors present plenty of reasons why it *shouldn't* happen, and Keane overrules them (out of anger)—something that Trump has certainly done before. I mean, we might not have ever expected Obama to appear on Between Two Ferns, but he recognized…

It's possible that he's still an naive participant—he might have genuinely received a phone call from one of his superiors, or someone adjacent to the president, that called him away from the scene. (It's not as if he was specifically needed there.) But the show definitely painted him as a suspect.

He's not a good candidate in the eyes of Dar—that's why O'Keefe keeps it a secret from Dar, and why Dar seems to break with his cabal in order to protect Quinn.

You think Alex Jones and Donald Trump have been right about the dangers of the "Deep State" because it exists as a plot point on Homeland? :facepalm:

Why? The chimpanzee scene was one of the more effective moments in the episode. Subtlety was *not* called for there; Quinn was screaming out in pain.

He told her that he was going after the assassin and told her to go into the house, alone. I don't really know how to read that scene any other way than with him using Carrie, especially since he shows up right in the nick of time to save her—exactly when the assassin reveals himself in a vulnerable position. This…

I agree that Quinn's argument in the attic isn't all that cohesive, but I think it was intentionally performative, right down to the monkey screeching that's straight out of a Tennessee Williams play. Quinn was very clear about what was going to happen: Carrie could have the evidence, he wanted the assassin. And I…

That's Quinn's problem, no? We've already seen that the assassin is very good at watching and waiting, and he already tricked Quinn once before (at the motel, sending a stranger in his place to throw off the scent).

I was just talking about this with some friends:

It's all about perception and spin. If "Equinox" is the government's codename for Mojo, then they believe him to be in their employ, even if it's really the other way around. Equinox is a pretty good name for him, too, in a tongue-in-cheek way, since there's nothing evenly balanced about Mojo.

We've never seen Melanie's powers, now have we?

I'm just saying, I know that "Equinox" is a thing on this show, too, but if ever I were to believe that a mutant was in the employ of the government, it would be Mojo, fully funded and loaded for reality-riffing propaganda and mind control.

mojo mojo mojo mojo mojo

I disagree. The show isn't about the presidency; leave that to Designated Survivor and 24. This show has been about the people who work in the shadows to get the work done—the ambassadors and bureau chiefs, sometimes the senators and representatives. I'm not sure there's much to be gained by giving top-tier access to…

The problem with depicting her presidency is that it's an idealized one. It exists for the sort of world that we don't have. The only way Keane's presidency is depicted is if, early in Season 7, she finds her actions to be inadequate, because they allow a major act of terrorism (probably overseas) and require her to…

I mentioned that very complaint downthread: I'm hoping that Quinn is actually being used as bait for Carrie at this point, and that the soldiers know exactly where he is. It's totally implausible to me that the assassin would *not* have burned this location the moment that Dar called him from an unsecured line,…

If you believe firmly in the unflappable Carrie of Season 1, as Joshua has often asserted he does, then it *is* tragic to see any deviation from the woman that she used to be. But yeah, this is what children do: they change us.