Homeland ‘The Good Soldier’: Drinking Too Much

(Note to readers: I didn't have a lot of time to study Sunday's episode of Homeland, so this will be a shorter recap than usual) A lot of people have been weighing in on the Saul 'Is He or Isn't He' debate the last few weeks, and last night, Saul was given another scene that …

Homeland ‘Blind Spot’: Thickening of the Web

Homeland's fantastic first season continued last night with 'Blind Spot', an episode about Saul's life, Carrie's determination, and as always, Brody's unstable emotional and mental state. It was an episode full of twits, and I'm going to try and keep this fairly short this week, because I feel much of what happened this week is …

Homeland ‘Semper I’: Back to Reality

This week's episode of Homeland brought a lot of our characters face to face with the reality of their worlds, something they've either not acknowledged previously, or have been trying to escape. There were a ton of examples, and although there didn't seem to be a lot of plot advancement, there were a lot of …

Homeland ‘Clean Skin’: What Lies in the Bedroom

Last night's episode of Homeland was the best yet, and started to draw the outlines of what is going on this season (albeit a very, very broad outline). While the episode again ended on a conventionally dramatic moment (this finds two new house owners closely studying the flight paths of planes from the airport nearby), …

Homeland “Grace”: Testing of Faith

(the following contains spoilers about last night's Homeland episode. Be warned.) Last night's Homeland episode examined an important aspect of the life of confidential intelligence: faith. Most of them weren't as overt as the display in the last scene of the episode (where its clear Brody found himself a new religion in his eight years …

First Impressions: Homeland

(airs on Showtime, Sunday nights at 10pm beginning 10/2) For the first thirty minutes of the premiere, Homeland appeared to be exactly what it sounded like: a 24 clone, with sub-par family plot lines and a thin line of credibility. But the last half of Homeland's pilot kicked things into high gear, and for the …