Worst actor I’ve ever seen on an expensive TV series, rivaled only by the British writer guy on this same series. Hard to summon up any desire for him to stick around.

Are you sure they want to do that kind of damage to the hosts? Perhaps a .50 BMG round could crack those central units inside the heads, whereas little 5.7 or intermediate rounds can’t, and this is a cost issue.

It’s a huge stretch, but so is a lot of the rest of the show, and will get more like that over time. If Ford could pull off computer stuff on the level of manipulating the human-like behavior of thousands of hosts and blocking corporate espionage and all this other stuff, maybe we can accept he removed all images of…

Comments like yours are hard to refute, but disappear amidst the torrent of “OMG MAEVE YASSSSSS QUEEN GET SOME” etc. The hosts are being just as terrible as the humans, if not *significantly* more so since the humans can’t simply be fixed, and it is not at all clear how real their apparent free will or…

Of course, there’s nothing more realistic about the idea that they’d be able to afford “a real goddamn army” when they are an entertainment company. (Disney certainly couldn’t field one.) Nor do they want to damage the hosts too badly, as it will cost them dearly to fix them up if they are too heavily mutilated. Thus,…

Or the samurai just crossed the border on his own like he’s not supposed to be able to, as with the tiger.

“It’s the perfect colonialist fantasy, really: a land that was literally designed to be exploited.”

Except that nothing they do there is permanent, and they pay exorbitantly for the privilege of visiting, and they can’t take anything out with them. So nothing about your claim holds water at all.

In an episode where…

Mary Karr made her career by lying and exaggerating about her own life. How can she expect any other reception than “no one cared?”

Earn is shown not caring about injury and death of others as early as the second episode of the series, where they are laughing off what happened at the end of the first.

“Perhaps it’s because Atlanta has acclimated its audience to ten-episode seasons”

The delegation from Mexico appeared to think Handmaids were a small, specially picked (or, they misapprehended, volunteered) subset; the criteria may be some combination of fertility plus failure to fit into the rest of society in some other capacity. Econowives are the hoi polloi; in the book, they wear multicolored…

Narrative dead end, so kind of a yawn. June’s memories of her mother were extremely banal, and the mother being captured in that photo a rather extraordinary coincidence just to dovetail with the other memories she happened to be having. The music at the beginning came off a little silly. The military maneuvers…

Am I the only one who thinks Ben Barnes (Logan) is a really weak actor? I see him crop up on these high-profile TV shows and I keep asking myself why. I’m actually equally baffled as to why Tessa Thompson is suddenly in everything.

As for the episode—these scenes from the past feel like elaborating things that we, in…

I was all ready to sneer at the show for appearing to want us to celebrate Keane’s restoration to the office of President. After all, she’d lied to Our Heroine, locked up people for reasons at best unproven and at worst unprovable, spoke of the Vice President like he was garbage despite his having ultimately done the…

I think they only wanted us to feel what was shown: Keane had become part of the problem, but was able to make a step toward change. It doesn’t have to be any more complicated than that, and the difficult history you mention in fact lends weight to this rather than subverting it. I certainly didn’t feel it was smug;…

Virgil was a cool character, and the actor was good. I am told he got some steady work on other shows, and the schedules conflicted with Homeland.

[I think “the ironing is delicious” is a deliberate reference to a Bart Simpson line.]

How could you be a long-term GRU operative and not expect to bite it in a bad situation? Failing that, if she convinced herself her boyfriend was deeply in love with her and would go to great lengths to take care of her (which, to be fair, he HAD, just during this season), how could Carrie talk her out of that belief…

The “heart of things” in a show about defending the American homeland is...in Israel. REALLY MAKES YOU THINK HUH

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BTW, Homeland doesn’t accept spec scripts (good luck finding any shows that do these days—legal clearance issues).