‘Homeland’ season 2, episode 7 review: Injustice is served
Has there ever been a person more obsessed with getting arrested on TV then Dana Brody? “Homeland” season 2 has spent the past few weeks building up the aftermath of the hit-and-run heard all around the TV community, and this week finally brought us the payoff for it; however, this payoff may not have happened as according to plan.
First of all, Dana and Jess proved themselves to really be the only characters here with any kind of real moral compass. Would it have been easiest for the two of them to try and bury the accident like it never happened? Sure, and they were given plenty of opportunities to do so. Walden, his wife, and Finn were all convinced that the best way to handle this situation was to bury it rather than have justice be served, as they did not see how the mistakes of one teenage boy should be a reflection on the whole family and the election. This is the sort of thinking that has plagued politics for years, and this was beautifully acted to not feel cliche.
As for Brody, he was once again stuck in the middle between opposing influences. On one hand, he genuinely did want to have Dana learn a lesson from this by going to the police; as a matter of fact, he even drove her to the station so that she could turn herself in and have some sort of relief (which was surely bad news for Finn). However, this one act led to the CIA all running around like chickens with their heads cut off. They knew that in doing this, Brody would be putting his entire cover at risk of being blown, and therefore their quest to stop Abu Nazir’s terrorist attack would be up in smoke. Therefore, Carrie, who he had just made out with the day before, came in and stopped the confession from happening. To make matters worse, Carrie saw Dana in the process … which is something that Jess will probably not be that happy with considering that Brody lied about it. How will he get out of this one? Our guess is that he will probably spin some sort of fantastic lie that the CIA told him that Carrie was no longer around, and she swooped in at the last minute here when there was no one else available to stop him from doing what was in their eyes a cardinal sin to the mission.
These stories were all significant lift up from last week, especially now that Mike is seemingly out of the picture thanks to Carrie’s tete-a-tete with him to lay off. As great as all of this one, Mandy Patankin completely stole the entire episode courtesy of a discussion between Saul and an inmate who held important information that could give them the latest threat on the chain of command.
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