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Homeland S3E12 Review, “Marine One”

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.…

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Homeland S3E11 Review, “Big Man in Tehran”

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…

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Homeland S3E10 Review, “Good Night”

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…

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Homeland S3E9 Review, “One Last Time”

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…

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Homeland S3E8 Review, “A Red Wheelbarrow”

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,…

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Homeland S3E6 Review, “Still Positive”

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…

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Masters of Sex S1E5 Review, “Catherine”

Goddamn, this show has some gut-wrenching emotional moments! After the first few episodes, it was already becoming clear that we weren’t dealing with a show that was only going to point out sexual absurdities and chronicle the scientific component of the sexual revolution.  While both of those elements are certainly present in the overall makeup…

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Homeland S3E5 Review, “The Yoga Play”

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…

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Masters of Sex S1E4 Review, “Thank You For Coming”

Season Ones can be fascinating to watch, because even the worst, low concept garbage can show glimpses of potential.  Masters of Sex is hardly that, as there is a creative vision here that is almost a prerequisite for a show to get greenlit in the 21st century premium cable landscape.  Even Hung had enough to…

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Homeland S3E4 Review, “Game On”

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…