“GERONTION”
Meter Reading: 50/100
Has anyone else noticed how
awful and elementary the writing of the show has become?
C’MON HOMELAND!:
1.
Let’s
start out with the obvious here. Mira is not a sex symbol. I repeat, Mira is
not a sex symbol. This is what I imagine happened.
Writers / Producers of Homeland: “We
need Homeland to be more sexy! We need sex appeal!”
Recently fired Homeland employee: “Let’s
dress Mira in see-through lingerie! The audience will love that and let’s have
her on-screen for 5 minutes in the lingerie. She is a sex symbol! This is a
sure-fire hit!”
C’MON HOMELAND!
2.
Extremely
predictable story-line to have Javadi become Saul’s asset. What well-respected show
uses the same story-line twice?? And the scary thing is, this probably won’t be
the last time either... C’MON, HOMELAND?!
3.
Okay,
Homeland, we get it. Carrie is pregnant. We don’t need unnecessary vomiting to
hammer that point home, when we saw 50 positive pregnancy tests last week and
that same episode was titled “Still Positive”. We get it, Homeland. C’MON HOMELAND!
And if Carrie is pregnant and it’s
been over 4 months since Carrie and Brody last saw each other, shouldn’t she be
showing? Homeland, if you’re going to hammer home the point in back-to-back
episodes that Carrie is pregnant, then make sure you get the details right!
4.
According
to this,
Damian Lewis is receiving a comfy $250K/episode of Homeland, when he doesn’t
even have air-time. Leave it to Homeland, to not only not have its most polarizing
character on the show, but to continue to pay him $250K/episode. C’MON HOMELAND!
Question of the Week:
Will Quinn shower this
week and will he retire from the CIA?
I'm a bit more positive on this season than U, agreed that the this season has had less than elegant and artful storytelling this season, but that's because the writers painted themselves into the corner after season one and are still picking up the pieces. Since Homeland has been picked up for a 4th season, here's hoping they get the chessboard set right for it.
ReplyDeleteKing: Saul - ruling the CIA after unseating the Senator by having this Iranian plot work.
Queen: Carrie - crazy enough to move in any direction, at any time.
Bishop: Quinn – makes people DIE using all the ANGLES…bishop…die angles…diagonals…I’ll show myself out
Knight: Brody – who is always two steps ahead of the ever-changing enemy and now one to the left in socialist Venezuela.
Rook: Javadi – is the valuable asset Saul sends across the board and across the world.
PAWNS RAPID FIRE!
Farah – stays near the king at all times and works the books
Virgil – the queen’s pawn
Max – somehow the pawn of a pawn
Uncle Mike – secretly wants to be the knight
Jess Brody – get back to banging Uncle Mike already!
Dana Lazaro – got into a car with another random pawn, hopefully gone forever
Chris Brody – this chess set is missing one pawn, no one has noticed
Chumlee – cuz the dude’s a Pawn Star!
LET THE HOMELAND RESURGANCE BEGIN!