“TWO HATS”
Meter Reading: 96/100*
*I had to alter the scale because
Homeland was so deservingly good this week and I was getting some flack à Al Baby
So who else couldn’t sleep the same night they watched Homeland? I
was tossing and turning playing out the events of the last hour of Homeland in
my head. “Would they really kill Brody?”, “Who the f*** is Peter Quinn?”, “Why
is Sal so good looking?”, “Is Dara Dal a real name?”, “How could Estes have
another operation on the side?” It was a roughhhhh night to say the least, not
to mention this douche that lives above me that wouldn’t go to sleep and just
kept pacing from 1230-130am last night. I WILL FIND YOU! But I digress.
Brody finally turns up after being off the map for 12 hours and
immediately calls Carrie and lets her know to get his family in good hands à Enter
Uncle Mike (literally). Brody replays the hours of his captivity with Estes,
Saul, Quinn and Carrie. But the audience is lead to believe he is leaving out a
few minor details, praying with the leader of a terrorist organization. Homeland
is unbelievable; the fact that they have a terrorist on the show calling out
Osama Bin Laden as a “cowering animal” is incredible. Props, props, props.
Did anybody else think when Brody told the foursome that he was
terrorized for a few hours and then Abu Nazir brought him tea, that this
reminded them of the Chappelle Prince skit where after trouncing Charley Murphy
and his crew of flunkies in a game of basketball (i.e. shirts vs. blouses),
Prince served Charley Murphy pancakes? I saw the similarities. Yousef:1 America
Homeland:0
Brody does communicate to the CIA the big parts of Abu Nazir’s aka
The Sandman’s (thank you Homeland for this piece of gold) plan. Brody says that
they are planning an attack during the homecoming event of 300 U.S. soldiers,
where Vice President Walden will be in attendance. The key to the terrorists’
plan is to have one reporter, Roya Hammad (she’s the one for me), cover the
event and have her camera crew (aka Arabs / Mexicans that look like Arabs)
unleash a bomb during said event. Which leads me to the most flummoxing thing
about the episode; what terrorists stop at the Waffle House to exchange camera
batteries for bombs designed to look like camera batteries? Clearly every
half-brained CIA operative is going to catch terrorists in broad daylight
exchanging batteries for bombs. C’mon Homeland, a Waffle House? You’re better
than that.
Lastly, I want to briefly touch on the Peter Quinn / John X / Dara
Dal storyline. What the heck is going on? There, I touched.
Predictions:
1.
Walden
is actually clued in to everything going on and knows about Brody’s dealings with
the terrorists. I mean, he is the Vice President of the United States.
2.
Walden
was the one who contacted Dara Dal to lead the other operation.
3.
Brody
is housing Abu Nazir while his family is away.
4.
Quinn
will try and kill Brody in a few more episodes but Brody will actually be the
one who kills Quinn.
5.
Walden
will die at the hands of Abu Nazir and/or Brody this season.
Character(s) of the Week: British actors on Homeland. Only Homeland can
bring the blokes from across the ocean and turn them into 5-star actors.
·
Nicholas
Brody - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507073/
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David
Estes - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362873/
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Rupert
Friend - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1670029/
such a sick post! two hats, two chanizzzzzz hahaahaha
ReplyDeletethere is a striking omission here in that we finally saw jess undress again. they made us wait awhile for it, but damn well worth it.
i agree with #1 and #2, estes must have gone to walden after saul told him they should keep it from him. plus killing brody is good for walden b/c it means no one ever finds out that the VP chose a terrorist as a running mate
also, #3 is a HOT prediction.
First off, hat tip to this blog...it has easily taken up 94% of my otherwise worthless Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteThis post, like the episode, was awesome. The Prince/Pancakes, Abu Nazir/Tea similarities are spot on. It's too bad you don't have the readership of Simmons (yet), because if you did, you could call out for some tecky internet troller to splice a video of the two clips together...that would be gold.
A couple things I noticed:
Carrie -- Her brilliant craziness (or crazy brilliance) is something to behold. I especially liked her planting of Uncle Mike right in the middle of the now penthouse-apartment hiding Brody family. She knows Mike will make the family feel safe, which in turn appeals Brody, but she also know that getting Mike and Jess together will only pull Brody farther away from his family and closer to her. She is fucking nuts....or a genius.
Mike -- Does anyone else think Mike is the man...even though he is kind of a side player in all of this. The scene where he lays the fatherly smack down on all-knowing Dana was pretty great. You can tell by the look on her face that she has been waiting for the last 9 years for someone to finally act like a real father and tell her what to do.
Saul -- I was impressed that Quinn's Baby Mama didn't immediately take everything Saul was saying to her as fact. Obviously, she knows of Quinn's shady job status and is skeptical of everything associated with him, but if I was sitting across from Saul and he told me he was from the IRS I would damn well believe he was from the IRS.
Chris -- Does anyone else see the relationship to Chris Griffin from Family Guy? Both are younger sons with older sisters, both don't really bring anything to their respective shows except stupid idiotic comments that are meant to humor us ("There are TVs in every room"), both have hot Moms (Louis Griffin whattttup), and they both have no idea, at all, what is going on ever.
I like the predictions a lot. I'm not fully sold on Walden knowing about all of this yet. That would mean that when Estes was explaining the plan to foil the terrorist plot at the homecoming to Brody and Walden (with Brody acting like he had never heard it before), it was actually a ruse to make Brody feel like he knows everything that is going on. That just seems like a lot of scheming to me, but this is Homeland so you never know.
Also of note, I typed in Homeland Dara Dal into Google and your blog was the first thing that came up. Either that means you are now a leading critic for Homeland or it is spelled Dar Adal. I’ll take the former.
I think John's comment is better than the blog post itself...Thank you
ReplyDeletehas anyone else noticed that mike faber and steve novacane look identical?
ReplyDeleteblog got so much better.
ReplyDeletehot predictions.
mike is a rising star. discplining children adn doing someone's wife is cool but walking into a pre-made family and raising kids that aren't yours isn't so cool.