Monday, 21 November 2011
S01E09 "Crossfire" Promo
Carrie will do anything to get the Intel she needs. Walker is somewhere helping Abu Nazir. Brody is accepting his mission.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
S01E08 "Achilles Heel" Clips
CLIP 1
Brody and Jessica attend to Elizabeth's party and are introduced as "The perfect couple".
CLIP 2
Helen Walker is at the CIA and is questioned about Thomas Walker.
Brody and Jessica attend to Elizabeth's party and are introduced as "The perfect couple".
CLIP 2
Helen Walker is at the CIA and is questioned about Thomas Walker.
Monday, 14 November 2011
1x07 The Weekend Review [SPOILERS]
Showtime |
Line of the episode: “I just
wanna live here”. –Brody.
Aileen - Saul -
Estes
Aileen was captured right away when she got to Mexico, and Saul was taking her back to the US, he convinced Estes so he could be there and bring her back.
Aileen was captured right away when she got to Mexico, and Saul was taking her back to the US, he convinced Estes so he could be there and bring her back.
On the way, he used all kind of
tricks to make her talk about her childhood, parents, Faizel, Abu Nazir and
everything that was going on with this matter, and only until the very end she
did, and wow she had a lot to say…
Saul called Estes and told him
that the house she was living in near to the airport was supposed to be used to
kill a target, so an agent is sent over to search the area, pointing out
different parts of the airport, specially “Reserve M1”, meaning Marine 1, and
revealing that an expert military sniper can actually shoot from the house to
the airport.
Brody’s picture is shown to Aileen,
but she describes the guy she talked to looking like Thomas Walker… So yes, he
is alive and introduced like the possible turned POW, making this gigantic
change of plans for all of us that might have thought that Brody was the one.
Still I’m not confident enough as to erase his name though…
Showtime |
Jessica - Mike
After an episode of Dana and her
friends smoking and drinking, she walks through the glass door, then taken to
the hospital to get stitches. When they head back home, Mike is there fixing
the door and Dana tells him that he needs to go for good.
Jessica then walked in and, after
Dana was gone, told Mike that she misses him, kissed and are interrupted when
Jessica is called by. Interesting thing about this couple is that they love
each other but the circumstances are keeping them apart, and they probably won’t
have the chance to be together any time soon.
Brody and Carrie
In this episode we had the chance
to see a side we’ve never seen before. Carrie is in fact human and she
discovers that she actually might need someone to share things with, someone to be
herself and feel free… Problem is the person that she’s having those feelings
with, Brody. There is a new window now, Carrie was walking straight ahead and
Brody met her in the middle, and I shall say it was a very good view.
Another thing that marked this
moment: It’s amazing how different it was Carrie’s reaction to his scars,
because if you think back, Jessica was shocked and started to cry, which was
something painful to watch; in this case, Carrie kissed him, because she understands what that is, and Brody is
more than pleased with that.
The connection between them was
so fond and deep that even when they slept together and Brody was having a
nightmare, Carrie calmed him down and embraced him even harder so he could fall
asleep again. They were playing the part as the couple in the honeymoon and we
were there in the front seat… It’s in these scenes that we actually see the
real Carrie and the real Brody. He is himself and finds another one just like
him.
The moment we thought that this
honeymoon could last forever, Carrie tells him that there might not be the kind
of tea that he likes, so he has doubts, confronts her and Carrie just says
everything she’s been doing and even has the nerve to tell Brody that she
thinks that he is the turned POW.
Brody, acting very hurt and
upset, invites her to ask him everything… And oh she does. Funny thing about
this scene is that she is constantly trying to find the flaw, the exact sign
that she’s so desperately seeking, and all the while he’s sitting there
answering all her questions.
It was indeed amazing how you
feel that their relationship (if there was any) is falling apart to the ashes
while she asks and gets this kind of honesty that is absolutely making her
angry at herself; she is confronting him just the way she wanted since the very
beginning of the show and she gets nothing on him. On the other hand, he could
be lying; we do know that Brody can be a hell of a good liar… But if we give
him the credit, he sounded so awfully honest.
In the middle of all of that
going on, Carrie was phoned by Saul and was told that Thomas Walker is (might
be) the turned POW, but we all know it was all too little too late since Brody
was all hurt, so he just takes off, but before that, Carrie tries to apologize,
even begs, which is something I never thought she’d do.
And there she is… lonely, crying
and hurt, realizing that he might be telling the truth of who he is all the
while, and that she might be making the biggest mistake of her life.
Brody goes home, checks
everybody’s room, then just sits on the sofa and starts to cry. I have two
ideas: 1) he realized that the person that may have understood him and with
whom he made this great connection with was lying all the time and now he is
miserable, or 2) he knows that all his life is upside down; Jessica, Carrie,
all the years in captivity, his children… it all seems too real.
Showtime |
OVERALL
The weekend is tracing the line
between now and what we thought before. We had the precious opportunity to see
Carrie and Brody together and found out that without all the problems
surrounding them they can actually be a very functional couple, but that might
have to wait, because if they finally can get along, the show is obviously
finished.
The turned POW might be Thomas
Walker and not Brody, which is an interesting plot line twist, because it
proves once more that the writers are making us think what they want and not
what might actually be the obvious, the very same promo that appears
everywhere: Brody is the turned POW.
Saul. Still an enigma. In the
previous episode he desperately tried to be transferred and now he was out of
the blue so interested on Aileen and there must be a reason… I know there is
something weird about him, I just haven’t figured out what that is just yet.
We still don't know who handled the razor blade to Hamid, nor even if he actually killed himself or was killed. (Second guess is my choice).
We still don't know who handled the razor blade to Hamid, nor even if he actually killed himself or was killed. (Second guess is my choice).
On the other hand, we saw Carrie
in a more relaxed and human mood and Brody as this gorgeous prom king so
desperately seeking for his queen. You have to love these two together; at
times they were so ridiculously beautiful that grinning and smirking was just
so unavoidable.
This episode definitely leaves
you with all these mixed feelings regarding the future…
S01E08 "Achilles Heel" Promo
Thomas Walker’s sketch
is made and they discover that he is alive and in town, so the CIA is going
after him. He might be a threat. Carrie goes to Brody’s house to talk to him.
Brody and Jessica play the perfect couple.
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Statement to all Homelanders
Dear Homelanders:
The most common
replies I get on mondays right before Homeland is aired, are:
“Please don’t talk about Homeland yet”
“I won’t be able to watch the episode”
“I’m going to DVR it
and watch it later”
“Don’t write about the
new episode please”
“No spoilers please”
So what do you think?
I’m wide opened to ideas…
Thursday, 10 November 2011
S01E07 "The Weekend" Clips
CLIP 1
Brody and Carrie are talking while heading somewhere together...
CLIP 2
Jessica came home with Dana... Mike is there and start talking to Jessica about themselves.
Brody and Carrie are talking while heading somewhere together...
CLIP 2
Jessica came home with Dana... Mike is there and start talking to Jessica about themselves.
Sunday, 6 November 2011
S01E07 "The Weekend" Promo
Carrie and Brody spend a weekend together... Mike and Jessica talk about feelings. Saul is behind Aileen.
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