Yes! Yes! Yes! Rafael needs a non-Jane, non-crazy person in his life.

I thought Rafael paying someone off to rat out Michael and then lying to Jane was a total dick move. Plus, he was acting out of petty jealousy. But c'mon, Michael is not some innocent party. He botched the Sin Rostro investigation from the beginning. First by letting his jealousy of Rafael blind him to other leads…

I think Dar's treatment of Allison's and Saul's betrayal was pretty consistent. He seemed to take Saul's more personally, which makes sense given their history, but in both cases his response was to detain them, question them and plan to ship them back to Langley to minimize the public damage. Allison's only getting…

Allison and Saul being two of the few people that knew about the plane is exactly why she framed Saul. Saul was the one who looked guilty with the evidence Allison manufactured and so that's who Dar had investigated. And since I've never seen anything to indicate Dar is particularly insightful, it didn't surprise me…

I totally disagree that Dar is some kind of Svengali. In season 2, Saul figured out what his man Quinn was up to before anything happened. Dar wasn't prescient and was zero steps ahead in that moment. In season three, he mostly just assisted Saul in his Javadi plan. And while he did double-cross Saul and had them…

Sigh… I think I've got to just admit that the A.V. Club and I have little in common re: Homeland season 5. There are just so many things in this review with which I disagree, but two really stuck out to me. First off, Dar admitted Allison was probably lying but they wouldn't go after her publicly to avoid…

She's just following airline safety protocol - you have the first make sure you're not going to die before you help others not die.

Exactly, he told Quinn to run so he could knock him down and get close enough to administer the injection.

He was injected with atrophine which can hinder the effects of sarin gas, so the question is was he injected with enough to combat the extent of his exposure to sarin gas?

Fantastic episode. From Saul planting the listening device to the BND's manufactured story to flush out Allison's real allegiance to Allison's tradecraft as she was fleeing, it had so much of the great spycraft that is exemplifying this season. Each episode just keeps building on the groundwork layed before and the…

I usually love this show, but this episode was a total mis-step. The main drama of Jane selecting an advisor and being comfortable with a nanny was just plain boring. Plus, Jane's controlling neuroses wasn't its usual endearing, it crossed over into annoying. And what a bungling of the triangle the last few…

I think it goes something like this. Carrie knew the following at that moment:
- Saul's drop was compromised indicating there's an internal breach
- The Russians are behind the attempts to kill her
- When she called the Russian hitman's contact, a woman answered
- The Russians didn't want her to find out Acrobat…

Yeah, it's pretty obvious that Quinn's story isn't going to kick into high gear until the major "action" episodes - which typically run from the end of episode 9 through episodes 10 and 11. I guess it's a good thing they're not giving him much airtime since not much is happening, but it would've been better if they'd…

How can the reason for keeping him alive be "deeply contrived" when we don't even know what it is yet?

Perhaps it's as simple as they believe he's CIA so they want to execute him in a more grandiose, brutal and public way.

I feel like I'm watching a different show than the reviewer because that episode was awesome. Homeland is a traditional spy thriller this season, as opposed to say 24, and this episode was a fantastic example of what it's doing well. Little pieces of information are constantly being revealed like Carrie remembering…

Surprised at the low community grade because I really liked this one - definitely one of the best two Scandal episodes of this season. Yes, the Olitz fight was nasty, but I feel like all those things have been bubbling under the surface with them for YEARS, so having them break through wasn't shocking. Plus, they're…

I'm betting the writers felt like they had to address Jane and both her men directly before moving her onto another guy. Which is exactly what I think they're going to do in the near future. Obviously, we had the Michael break-up already. Fast-forward to her getting back with Rafael, but with this "Solano Curse"…

I really liked this one. All the drama of the first few weeks made this fast-forward episode feel almost necessary so the show could be funny and light again. The softening of Petra and her burgeoning friendship with Jane actually felt earned because of the passage of time and Petra's pregnancy. I also loved seeing…

Which is good, but why wait until 2/3 of the way through the season to make their antagonist compelling?