I don't think he's bad, but he does feel like he;s out of some other show entirely. Though I do believe that's intentional. He's a highly theatrical, almost comical presence. I love it when he says: "Let's weaponize some information!"

I again find myself disagreeing with the grades this season has been getting, but I don't want to sound like a broken record. One thing I'm hoping to get clarification on is Dar's precise agenda with Mossad and his cabal of intelligence agents - I'm pretty certain their big goal is to trigger a war between the US and…

As much as I like this season of the show, I really think the writers are undermining its potential by doing way too much and burning through plot as quickly as possible. I mean, they routinely have eventful things take place in one episode, only to undo them one or two episodes later. The first season had a better…

I like the broader focus on the rebellion, but this season has largely sidelined the Jedi and dropped their threads. Ezra's dark edges have been sanded off. And the Sith Holocrons appear to have been forgotten, as has the notion of Kanan learning the middle ground of the Force.

What this episode makes obvious is that the writers have pretty much jettisoned the Dark Ezra plotline. The last 10 episodes have made no mention of Ezra falling under the way of the Sith - and it never even came up in this Maul-centric outing.

I love this episode. I can admit to some plausibility issues, but overall it was fast, energetic and built excellently on the previous 8 episodes.

I've realized after checking things that I got my wires crossed. Meng was part of book 2. LOL. Don't know how I got them mixed up.

Interesting how they've decided to integrate the best part about Book 4, with Prax and his daughter, into the context of Book 2. I take it that Book 4's main plot will be jettisoned for the most part.

VOX, where he chimes in on shows but doesn't do regular episode reviews.

Yeah, the courtroom drama this year is actually working really well. I remember hoping the series would've taken the courtroom route previously with Brody, like put him on trial. But they didn't seem to know how to actually handle that stuff and quickly dropped it.

A lot of sites dropped Homeland recaps after Season 4, I think. I loved Sepinwall's, Todd Vanderwerff's and Alyssa Rosenberg's takes. But they only occasionally chime in now.

Lol. Edited. That was another reviewer on AVClub. Don't know why I wrote that.

I wonder if they'll clarify whether or not Kristeva is a pathological liar. That was the impression I always got on the Good Wife.

Thanks for linking to a propaganda report.

Did anybody notice that Benny, the pre-Lenny junkie body of David's actually looks quite a bit like The Devil? I mean, his physical appearance - an overweight, tall man who looks off?

I'm confused. Do you mean the deep state coup plot seems out-of-touch with reality?

I really don't feel this is a fair assessment of the episode and the series. Comparative evaluations always elevate one side by denigrating the other, which is unfair to both. In this case, the New Homeland is basically weak by virtue of not being the classic "propulsive" Homeland.

The writers of the show clearly have no idea of what actually is happening in Syria. That bit with the White Helmets, the fake civil defense, made me groan.

Yularen is interesting, in that he was a recurring Clone Wars character who reportedly dies in one of the live action films. I have to say, Kallus has grown into one of the show's most interesting characters. But it feels like the writers largely decided to drop the Dark Ezra stuff that opened the season and are no…

That's a good point regarding the lives of agents.