It's that Homeland time of year again

[Hassled]

It feels so long ago that poor Weaselly Quinn met his maker that I had to Wiki what happened last season. We were left with an easily-led Madame President, an assassination plot, Saul in prison, Quinn dead in a Jeep and Carrie's distraught face working on overtime.

But it's back! Feb 11th US which I reckon means Feb 18th UK (although last year Channel 4 didn't tell us till about a minute before kick-off, despite my pathetic emailing). . Yay!

As an aside, this breathtaking Skripal poisoning thing is so insane and seems so unreal that it could well be a Homeland plot.

Singing in.

Is that Toni Collette playing the worried woman at brett okeefe’s compound?

Agreed, Hassled. Mind-boggling.

Are we placing bets on who is isn't going to make it to the end of this episdode? There were a lot of guns in that there truck!

No need to kill the doggie

Oh man, these gun crazies are making me very tense

O'Keefe is way out of his depth here.

Oh my it's tense tonight.

Ooh who was beardy? Is he new to us? I’m impressed with his behind the back scrub tying skills.

Who is the wolverine-Raquel hotty sneaking around the hospital? We haven’t seen him before have we?

We need some bearded joggers again. That was nice.

Wolverine-esque not Wolverine-Raquel!

Oh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

What are the chances the kids are unharmed?

Well.
What a scummy little turd of a man.

I think I saw them being shepherded away through the smoke at the end.

Shit - good tv though.

Wtf is Carrie doing?!

I saw some kids being herded off through the smoke. I'm overly invested in these fictional children.

What is Carrie's secret illegal big-ask plan with Dante then?

Ohhh that was so gooooood.
Pity Beardy Hottie was a shitehawk.

Yes, there was a brief moment I thought he might start jogging and we'd have the whole bearded jogging doctors thing again.

Hassled if only!

Yes was very relieved to see the kids running through the smoke.

Okeefe caused that whole thing. From start to finish he created that whole situation. How many people are dead because of that coward?

Beardy wasn’t anywhere near as big or hot enough to satisfy my bearded jogger requests I’m afraid.

Carrie buying illegal drugs. Is she stupid? (Yes) Her sister is a doctor who is familiar with carries meds. She will know straight away she isn’t taking the right stuff.

From the Guardian episode blog re Beardy

If the bearded man behind the “FBI lets boy bleed to death” story looks familiar, that’s because it’s Oleg from the Americans (Costa Ronin). It’s a popular question these days, but is it the Russians again? He looks a little too slick to be an amateur.

Are we supposed to believe that Carrie and Max would be this hapless with her sister?
Even considering that Franny isn't too priority, shouldn't secret agents be good at multitasking and deceiving others?

Anyone else a little bit wary of Max?
Really hope I'm wrong...

Great episode this week, enjoyed it!