Episode 1 was excellent, but Episode 2 really pissed me off, because it was so lazy. I thought really, surely, the writers weren't going to do the predictable thing of making Carrie now able to deal unproblematically with the fallout from killing dozens of innocent civilians by her order and watching a colleague be kicked to death in front of her, BUT not cope with the idea of looking after a baby for more than an hour without attempting to kill it in the bath.
Because she's so edgy and interesting and obsessive about her work, she couldn't possibly be a faulty, human, not-particularly-natural-but-committed mother, because maternal competency is reserved for the not-so-interesting banal domestic-medical sister? Laaazy. Carrie goes through pregnancy, gives birth, apparently has no PND/mental health fallout despite her previous fragility, and all her trauma, goes back into the field and is completely unaffected by her colleague's murder - despite the fact that a hard-ass like Quinn has gone a bit mad over it - and her own civilian-killing orders, but it's day-to-day life with a baby that makes her go mad? Puh-lease.
Also that thoroughly unconvincing soliloquy where she drives to Brodie's old house, parks and tells her baby that she only gave birth to her and kept her because it was the last thing Brodie was pleased about, and now she no longer understands why? Are we to believe that she never in fact held her baby, fed her or changed her nappy at all between her birth and whenever she took the job in Kabul? Surely there must have been a week or two when she did some childcare, enough to know roughly which end you poke the bottle into, and how to change a nappy???
It's a waste of a decent actress. And it's a boring, predictable, TV cliche - the brilliant, obsessive, fearless, intuitive career woman who's just too edgy and cerebral and brave to change a nappy. DH had to stop me shouting at the screen.