Is Homeland Great or What?!

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Just watched part 2 of Homeland shown on Channel 4 last night.

Fantastic drama with an excellent script, superb acting and lots of twists and turns.

Has he been brainwashed????

According to my sister DUI is very common where she is in California and she has loads of people coming to where she works to do their community service. She said there isn't the availability of cabs like there is in the UK.

But yes, Tsk Tsk indeed - I noted it too!

Also Carrie looks FAB in a T shirt and jeans

Great thread. And glad to know that I'm not the only one who thinks DL is lush. Or am I? It's defo the chemistry between him and Claire Danes though as he did nothing for me when he was on Graham Norton, as himself.

You never know with these series, whether something's in there for a reason, ie Saul's polygraph spiking, either as a clue or a red herring. Or if it's a plot hole from poor writing.

Keeps us all guessing though!

YY DL is very lush!

How has Brody suddenly got half decent in bed, when previously he could only muster a somewhat impersonal wank?

Because, BOF, it is only with Carrie that he feels true freedom. Isn't that what he was saying while they were treking to see the waterfall which, incidentally, we never got to see (I do love a good waterfall). Carrie has unleashed his inner whatsit.

Because Carrie understands him and his wife doesn't.

I'd like to unleash his inner whatsit too!

Claire Danes is funny when she's drunk though isn't she (I know she's not really drunk but still...)

Hmm, I'm not convinced. I would have to be a LOT drunker than Carrie was to have risked Mr 30 Second Squirt.

He does seem to lack, well, stamina, doesn't he? Although in fairness if that was his first shag in 8 years stamina may not have been at the forefront of his mind.

He'd been perfecting his oral skills in the meantime though- albeit on Abu Nazir. I thought I'd seen the hint of a looming cock in flashback, and I was right.

no way .... you spotted that?!

Honestly!

I definitely picked up that he had been sexually abused anyway- I hadn't thought it was a Stockholm Syndrome love thing though.

Blimey .

I'd missed the hint of cock (Dulux's next whitish colour?) but did think that he'd had some kind sexual experience with Abu Nazir.

I want to see Damien Lewis, naked, in a waterfall

Not reading yet as haven't watched last night's yet, but loving ii so interested in reading what you all think once I've caught up.

Whaaaat? I think you're all imagining any sort of sex with Nazir! Are you SURE? You can definitely have Stockholm Syndrome or 'love' someone without a sexual element.

I really want Carrie and Brody together :( And I want the wife back with Mike. Makes so much more sense!

No, honestly. In one of the flashback scenes an episode or two ago, there was definite zip action implied.

Well... gosh.

I didn't know that the Guardian does a Homeland blog/recap every week:
www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/apr/01/homeland-series-one-episode-seven It's quite good!

I found myself thinking how nice a cabin by the lake would be, complete with waterfall (and of course DL just lurking in the woods).

Is the whole series 12 episodes? So 5 to go? I get greedy for episodes and wish I could watch double bills like bbc3 does the dramas but I suppose it's good to wait .

I'm still not quite sure of the bit on the roof. Surely you're still miles away from the helicopter and the chances of a clear shot on the president that far away wouldn't be that easy?

Bbc4 not 3 (of course, duh!)

Nah I thought zip action was from Brody's prison guard (one who killed himself) when he's finished beating the shit of him he pee'ed on him. Didnt he?

ah yes I remember that bit cyb

That Guardian Blog is good- they said they thought the polygraph had been meddled with which was why it didnt show Brody's lie about cheating on his wife- and consequently woudlnt show Sauls' response to handing the razor blade truthfully. But who meddled with it?

OH GOD MY HEAD HURTS