I can only hope that Nina gets a role on a show I want to watch. I need her to call people on their bullshit.

I think the angle this season is waiting for the other shoe to drop with Quinn, so any Dar reveals in that corner are still coming.

I'm confused by this reviewer's insistence on pinpointing Carrie as the cause of everyone's problems this season. She's not the one who exposed Quinn to that gas last year. She tried to do the right thing by letting him move in. In fact, Carrie has always been characterized by her freakishly astute ability to be…

I kinda like that such a massive sex symbol like her isn't concerned about looking typically pretty.

Yeah I thought it was a justifiable action given the circumstances. Now it sucks that peter seemingly never chose this life, but I'm not buying this version of Quinn that would suddenly blame Carrie for the risks of a dangerous job.

Yeah, that was so tonally odd. The more I think about it, the more I'm not sure why Joshua thinks that Carrie is the one chipping away at Quinn's humanity. Wasn't Saul the one who pushed to bring Quinn out of his coma? Carrie did her best to keep him out of hospitals this year and I don't think that should be…

I expected his car to blow up when he put the key in the ignition

Nah, I think Quinn is finally damaged enough for Carrie.

I agree, it's easy to defend a narrative that coincidentally pulls from stuff that you happen to already know a lot about. However, I think that if someone doesn't actually know anything about the "Iran deal," there are a whole lot of dialogue and circumstances this season that are very well written but make no sense…

A lot of Homeland's smaller dramatic moments hinge on references to real things that are going on globally. I'm wondering if Joshua just isn't fluent in the particular bracket of news items that Homeland tends to lean on, because I definitely don't think Saul's arc is boring or moving too slowly. Interesting tidbits…

In terms of puppet strings, the comparisons to season 1 don't go anywhere for me. No one ever really talks about how the showrunners intended to have Brody set off the suicide bomb in season 1 but the network wouldn't let that happen. So then the show had to figure out what to do with Brody AND a plot wherein that…

Aw, Astrid. I'm glad she's back even though she's too good for Carrie's bullshit (I enjoy Carrie's bullshit).

Of course Nick's dad left him in an abandoned daycare. Big ups to Dennis Farina.

The Megan Fox experiment isn't really working out. I don't blame Megan. She's a known quantity. The showrunners should have gone with someone different if they had a different kind of performance in mind.

This is a common complaint about Jess, but very often she goes from being weird to being flat-out inappropriate. Winston is a gentle nut who pulled over an ice cream truck so his friends could have ice cream during a heat wave. Jess makes bad jokes in work settings when she should know better.

There were definite deal-breakers when it came to Nick. He's bad with money and at the time wasn't ambitious at all; for all of Jess' weirdness she's very good at her job and has successfully climbed the ladder. It's believably upsetting to see Nick finally getting it together to finish his book now that he's with…

We know that Quinn was right about the weirdo neighbor, we know that Sekou was set up. We're going to have to endure a lot of screentime devoted to Carrie being accused of being wrong about Sekou's lack of terrorist leanings.

It just seems to me like the showrunners feel like they need to always have some version of the "paranoid + manic + correct but too loopy to communicate properly" Carrie on the show and I'd be more interested in seeing a version of Homeland without the wasted time and wheel-spinning that always follows when The Crazy…

DAR ADAL AT SEPHORA

Remember what Dar told Carrie about recruiting Quinn as a teen and grooming/programming him for dangerous work? It's not surprising that Quinn doesn't know how to do anything else and that it hasn't occurred to the CIA that it's a problem to leave him dangling.