So, those of us who have stuck it out know by now that season 3 crashed and burned.  There was the laughably bad back and forth between Mrs. and Dana Brody, which only ended up serving as filler for the first 5 episodes.  There was the slightest glimpse of character development for Quinn and F.…

So, Homeland has actively begun to anger me. Yes, this week’s episode was a nice follow up to last week’s episode for the percentage of the audience that enjoys Bruckheimer films, American cheese, and the smell of a locker room.  There’s something to be said for each of those things, I suppose, who am I…

I wrote about chaos in this week’s Walking Dead review, specifically about how cramming too much information into a 45 minute TV episode can mimic the chaotic situations that are developing on screen.  There is of course the danger of stuffing so much into an episode that it becomes impossible to follow, and this week’s…

Homeland, nearing the homestretch of the thus far abominable season 3, is trying so hard to get the creative wheels turning.  Brody and Carrie reunited, Dana with an actual scene to act in, a goddamn training montage!  In past seasons, this ninth episode of season 3 would have been a perfectly acceptable transition episode, leading…

It really isn’t that hard to inject intriguing plot developments into a TV show, especially one that has shown close to limitless promise in the past.  But with the third season of Homeland, it’s been as difficult as dragging an unwilling and unmedicated Carrie Matheson through the door of another institution. Holy shit, this week,…

At least they’re throwing in some WHAT THE FUCK moments. I don’t need or want to understand everything that is happening at any given time when watching Homeland.  Part of the fun has always been trying (and inevitably failing) to understand motives, actions, even keeping straight who everyone is and who they’re affiliated with.  One…

I’m not going to let Homeland off the hook completely.  There’s still plenty to be pissed about, and the show is nowhere near what it was at the end of the first season, or in the middle of the second season.  But they hit the Season 3 reset button at the last available second where…

Is there any way to kindly and gently say, “worst episode of the series so far”? The first two episodes of this season were spiraling downward to this.  Then, with the third installment, we had a reprieve, with Brody returning to reach his own personal rock bottom, which was mirrored by Carrie’s.  There was an…

Brody’s back in the muthafuckin’ house, with a fat dick in yo muthafuckin’ mouth. We all knew that Brody was going to return, it was just a question of when and in what capacity.  I’d find it difficult to believe that anyone in the viewing audience predicted “gutshot outside Caracas with a shaved head, being…