showtime's Homeland =[a tolerable claire danes, mandy patinkin & that girl from firefly naked]

for a sec i thought brody was going to spill all the beans to walden and then pacemaker geek's internet would cut out

p amazing how a dude doing secret stuff in a room before someone comes in never gets boring

they've probably done that every single episode and i've always been GET OUT BRODY GET OUT AHHH

for a sec i thought brody was going to spill all the beans to walden and then pacemaker geek's internet would cut out

haha yeah exactly. I was like "what if he lives??"

p amazing how a dude doing secret stuff in a room before someone comes in never gets boring

xp - yeah, I'm pretty much a total patsy for that stock gimmick myself.

i had a good laugh when brody started looking for a magnifying glass to make him all detective-y. if only walden had not had a magnifying glass in his office, he would have lived and brody would have gone on a revenge mission against nazir for killing carrie. i'm trying to imagine the convo between nazir and brody:
-giveme the number or i kill carrie
-i can't... i can't read the number it's too small
we hear a couple of shots fired

galvez is totally the mole, isnt he. shit. i mean COME ON he's out of the hospital and WHOOPS major fuckup on catching nazir

heh http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/12/a-homeland-conspiracy-theory.html

That theory seems... plausible? Damian Lewis' bug-eyed performance on the phone with Nazir did seem a little off. I've rarely, if ever, correctly predicted where this show is going, though, so I'm looking forward to wherever it leads, no matter how batshit.

probably one for "too much time on ilx" that i thought dude's name was darragh dhal right

http://www.vulture.com/2012/12/homelands-chris-is-asked-to-leave-the-room.html

lol

btw what was up w two handed hearts, not a real game

no you don't get it, it was a metaphor for how brody keeps breaking chris' heart

huge lols at damien lewis mega-acting

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huge lols at damien lewis mega-acting

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Haha yes, lots of unintentional hilarity this season.

like every time they're like "no carrie is unstable and will be not useful" and then she's right, _again_.

you're not much of a CIA agent if you're going to let the murder of the vice president slide without telling anybody, though

also I guess some of this stuff was meant to have happened off screen but didn't the CIA want to debrief Carrie at all after she was face to face with the world's #1 terrorist for hours?

didn't it raise eyebrows at the CIA that a known terrorist (whose previous plot was to kill the vice president) happened to be with the Vice President at the time he died?

Frankly, if they don't explain how Nasir got into the US I'll have to rejigger my expectations.

all of that said, dope episode (xp to myself)

Brody gets away with a lot, tbh.

I was glad they had Carrie fail with Roya

after they "oops" just left the room unattended so that a non-employee of the CIA could chat with a high-level terror suspect

they're not exactly running a tight ship over there apparently

i kept hoping theyd throw us a bone re brodys phone not being tapped during conspiracy to assassinate the vice president video conference, like nasir was using snapchat or something

he was using skype I think

Had some yucks at the literally crying over spilt milk scene. And by yucks I mean guffaws.

i feel like the idea of estes as a hawkish, powermad cia agent, extragovernmentally ordering hits through a sense of duty, is quietly the most interesting premise this show has had for a while

the hole in the plot is that anyone would care that they killed some kids going after the #1 terrorist

feel like they couldve come up w a better scandal than that

idk, i'm always thrown by this show getting so much praise for being ~thoughtful~ & an antidote to 24 & for casting doubt on the ethics of ends justfying means, &c, with the bones getting thrown in that direction - usually by the blunt embrace of profiling by staff - seeming sorta obligatory or one-note. but estes being indignant & like "renegade" would be really interesting i think. way more room for table-thumping you can't handle the truth theatrics.

the weirdest thing to me was how the vice president dying, even if most people didn't know he was murdered, seemed like not that big a deal.

no i agree that its an interesting turn, just that the incident itself couldve been a lil more compelling xp

its just cause everyone in the world hates the vp and was hoping he would die

yeah but if that happened to Dick Cheney it would still be, y'know, a big deal

rip, the rock of coal inside his chest malfunctioned

they def couldve had a scene where everyone just ran around going HOLY SHIT

yeah, or some sense of the media frenzy

i guess it was all just portrayed from inside their bubble and we didnt see anyones immediate reaction carrie excepted but im sure the whole cia would be running around going holy shit for days not bothering to interrogate saul or w/e

so brody has to die next week, right?

also, was the show renewed for a third season? will they have a massive game changer? speculations?

i hope brody dies but maybe sauls gonna warn carrie

of course the show is being renewed and Brody isn't going anywhere

yeah pretty sure they're not going to kill off reigning Emmy winner and co-star of the show who is also the only tether to half the cast.

don't think we'll be seeing much if any of jess next season, given the long lingering shot of her walking back to the house

the downside of the awesomeness of burning through your plot is that you've burned through your plot.

the upside of making no sense is they can just make up a new plot.

yeah you need firm walls to paint yourself into a corner

maybe carrie n brody will go on the run

really the best would be if carrie and brodie died and saul became the start

mandy patinkin, holla