Tiramisu and The Return of The Bear

“TIN MAN IS DOWN”

Meter Reading: 70/100

Welcome back Homelanders! Who knew that this season of Homeland would be a dramedy! And I for one am not opposed. This week’s episode provided just as much thrill as it did laughter.

The season starts out with Crazy Carrie, back OFF of her meds, questioned in front of a committee hearing regarding the relationship between Brody and the CIA. The CIA has chosen not to reveal that a deal was struck- Brody’s immunity in exchange for giving up Abu Nazir. Well that turned out well! Senator Lockhart (wow, is he a hardass), who is leading this investigation, presents a memo, which clearly states that there was a deal struck between the CIA and Brody. Crazy Carrie continues to lie about the nature of the relationship and in classic Crazy Carrie fashion, yells out that she believes Officer / Terrorist / Congressman Brody is in fact innocent! Oy!

It is ironic that Crazy Carrie’s dad, who Crazy Carrie and her sister used to look after, is now trying to get Crazy Carrie to come to the realization that she is off her rocker and needs to be back on her meds. Just because you sleep 8 hours a day and run 6 miles a day, does not make one sane! Ted Bundy, Lindsay Lohan, Charles Manson, Dennis Rodman- all people who are or were clinically insane slept at least 8 hours a day and even were long-distance runners in their heyday. But I digress…

Who missed Saul Berenson (and his beard) while Homeland was off the air?! I, for one, couldn’t wait to see the commencement of CIA Director, Saul Berenson. Saul is now EL JEFE, and I love it. He is in charge, and he is demanding! Plus, you know that crazy rule about CIA Director’s having to wear business professional attire? Um yeah, EL JEFE plays by his own rules. The man is a bad mutha, shut yo mouth.

Saul is in clear boss-mode early in the season. While visiting the rubble and aftermath of the blast, which many months later still hasn’t been cleared for some odd reason, he directs a strike on 6 men (excluding Brody) directly tied to the bombing that killed 219 people at VP Walden’s funeral. Dar Adul, now Saul’s sidekick, is now 2^nd in command and is slowly, actually quickly becoming my least favorite character on the show. Dar Adul is out.

Quinn, who is actually my 2^nd favorite character, behind The Bear, is in Caracas to take out the “Tin Man”. All 6 of these men are named after Wizard of Oz characters, which I think is genius, and which I’m also sure Saul is behind. Quinn, who at the beginning of the episode is seen making a bomb, pulls away from a potential assassination because the “Tin Man’s” son is present.

“Who know Quinn had a heart?” – SCH

Quinn then breaks into the “Tin Man’s” home and proceeds to kills several armed men, one bullet a piece, except for the “Tin Man”, who he takes down with 3 shots, formed to make a triangle, because he knew the “Tin Man” was hiding behind a desk. Yes, Quinn, yes!!!

Mission Complete. EL JEFE gets the W.

As Saul, Dar Adul and the rest of the flunkies who are trying to impress Saul congregate for a little celebratory Tiramisu, Crazy Carrie crashes the party and goes F-bomb all over Saul because she thinks he was the one gave up her up as Senator Lockhart was leaked that not only had Carrie and Brody had a sexual relationship, but they had, in fact, left the auditorium together minutes before the bombing. Saul tries to calm Crazy Carrie down with an offer of Tiramisu, but Crazy Carrie does not bite (literally) and she is then left to be restrained and thrown out of the restaurant.

Saul is then summoned to a hearing of his own regarding the killing of the 6 targets, but the Senator is not impressed and Saul is left to cover his own tail and says that the “case officer in question” is unstable and diagnosed as bipolar. The dagger was that he lied when he said Crazy Carrie had concealed the sexual relationship with Brody from him.

I would like to introduce a new section to the blog I like to call “C’mon Homeland”. This will be all the really weird, unrealistic things that Homeland really just did not get right.

C’MON HOMELAND:

• ·      Who wouldn’t sleep in the same room as Saul Berenson? C’mon Mira, what’s up with that?
• ·      Dana’s attempted suicide and Dana’s grandmother claiming, “what teenagers haven’t thought about committing suicide?” That is the most ridiculous claim I have ever heard. I’m out on the grandmother
• ·      3 bottles of Wishbone dressing at the Brody dinner table….that’s way, way too much dressing
• ·      I don’t like that Dana was the one who suffered the most from her father’s transgressions. It would have been more believable if Jess had 5 sugardaddy’s to help pay the bills
• ·      Dana’s nude selfie- just really unrealistic and unbelievable
• ·      The man who Crazy Carrie picks up and has sex with had to have red hair? C’MON HOMELAND!

PREDICTIONS:

• ·      Brody authored and sent in an anonymous letter detailing the nature of the relationship between himself and the CIA, the sexual relationship he had with Carrie and how he and Carrie escaped immediately before the bombing took place
• ·      A murder of one member of the Brody family
• ·      We will see Brody in the next episode and he will have a James Harden-esque beard
• ·      Uncle Mike will pass on an attempt to sleep with Jess
• ·      Chris Brody will talk about the Wizards or the Capitals in the next episode

Character(s) of the Week:

Quinn. That’s all you need to know.

See you next week!