![]() Ostensibly a mentor and once-intended protégé, the pair have all the markings of great allies who should be on the same team. While fans loved Carrie and Brody’s ambiguous frenemy romance, and liked the equally tragic one between her and Quinn, it has been Saul and Carrie’s familial connection which has not only lasted the longest, but remained the most nuanced. Saul and Carrie have always had the most interesting relationship in the series. Are we really any better in 2020 than we were in 20 when American policymakers used 9/11 attacks as an on-ramp toward generational Middle East conflict?Īirdate: MaHomeland Season 8 Episode 6: Two Minutes However, the danger of assumptions turns out to be crucial in “Chalk Two Up,” an episode that brings to mind current debates about false information, fake news, and how presumptive policy can just result in more tragedy. After all, we did see the Taliban obliterate the second helicopter. Last week I made an assumption that President Warner and the Afghan president’s chopper was shot down by Taliban forces loyal to Haqqani’s wayward son. It’s delicious.Īirdate: MaHomeland Season 8 Episode 5: Chalk Two Down Let them know you’re doing everything in your power to stop this day from happening.” One can almost see this becoming a meme around Foggy Bottom for the incompetence of foreign “allies” or our own current White House. Instead, Saul gets to stand imperiously over her and deliver this verbal smackdown: “Go ahead, yell, scream, I don’t give a shit. She’s been the fly in the ointment everywhere else (and may yet prove to be indirectly responsible for tonight’s tragedy), but she is thwarted here when she demands to have back her cell phone back that was confiscated by American security. 25, 2020 Homeland Season 8 Episode 4: Chalk One DownĪt the American embassy, we’re teased that Tanseem, the woman who helped invite the Taliban into attacking a different American embassy during season 4, gets the whisper of a presidential visit from Afghan Vice President G’ulom. ![]() Representing two voices from the old guard that helped define the last 20 years in the War on Terrorism-CIA intelligence and religious extremism-they made for an odd pair that also smoothly played the “enemy so old they become a friend” trope.Īirdate: Feb. Yet here we are with the beleaguered but strangely regal warlord taking Saul in as first a prisoner and then, perhaps a little incredulously, a trusted advisor of a sort. I of course didn’t doubt that Homeland would play Saul’s fall into the grasp of Haqqani differently than the past, but I did not predict it would become tonight’s lead story. 16, 2020 Homeland Season 8 Episode 3: False Friends Fine then, if he only responds to bribery or menace, Carrie will find that gun.Īirdate: Feb. Claire Danes responds with her patented ability to simultaneously rally and crumble in a single stare. When he scoffs “what happened to you?” he all but outright states she’s damaged goods in his eyes, undoubtedly due to what Yevgeny told him just moments ago. ![]() Forced to suggest an entire relationship in a single scene, the transactional level of respect he has for Carrie is underlined by his insults: The Carrie he knew wouldn’t have come into his office begging for him to do the right thing-she’d have a gift or a proverbial gun to his head. Mohammad Bakri does sterling work of oozing arrogance and doting contempt as G’ulom. 9, 2020 Homeland Episode 2: Catch and Release 11, 2001 were still fresh on characters and audiences alike when Carrie pleads, “I just want to make sure we don’t get hit again.” She says this just minutes after the series opened during Carrie’s last days in Iraq.Īirdate: Feb. In the series’ very pilot, the psychic wounds of Sept. After years of reactionary fiction, Homeland arrived in the middle of the Obama presidency with a slightly more reflective cadence as it looked back at the world wrought by the 21st century’s patriots and war hawks. For all of Homeland’s missteps over the years, and there have been many, the series was initially conceived to be a more plausible melodrama about intelligence gathering in the post-9/11 War on Terror years than the pair’s far more ridiculous and jingoistic 24. Perhaps that is a credit though to showrunners Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon then. Homeland Season 8 Episodesīelow is our guide to the episodes that have so far aired from Homeland Season 8, and the ones still to come. The next episode of Homeland is titled “Prisoners of War.” The episode airs on Showtime on Sunday, April 26.
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