Nothing
ever goes to plan on Homeland – all you can really count on is
that, roughly twice per episode, Claire Danes will flare her nostrils
and twitch her mouth while the rest of her face stays as blank and
smooth as marble, so that she resembles a statue having a panic
attack.
Thus,
it was no surprise that this season's convoluted – and frankly
bonkers – scheme to assassinate Iranian Revolutionary Guard leader
Akbari (Houshang Touzie) would come unstuck. Actually by the end of
Big Man in Tehran it was back on track once more. But by then it was
difficult to work out who was doing what and why. All we knew was
that Brody (Damian Lewis) had just gone a bit mad with an ashtray and
a cushion and that this was in some way a good thing.
When
last we saw him double (technically now triple) agent Brody was
trying to shoot his way into Iran in what was surely the least covert
covert operation in espionage history. Bundled off to a detention
center, he pleaded for asylum, though he was practically winking
towards interrogator Javadi (another plant, positioned by the CIA to
take over as Revolutionary Guard boss).
With
Brody incarcerated, an already complicated story-line was obliged to
acquire an extra layer of ludicrousness. So pregnant, unstable Carrie
(Danes) was dispatched on what felt like a 20 minute flight from the
US to Tehran and Saul (Mandy Patinkin) gruff-talked a Mossad
operative who had slept with his wife into coughing up two field
operatives as support.
Source:
telegraph
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