11/15/2023 0 Comments Homeland season 2If Jenna really is borderline incompetent at spy work and she’s all Mike Dunne-Carrie’s effective boss-will provide Carrie with for assistance, can Ms. I doubt this plot thread is over given she more or less left Samira out to dry, but it raises some interesting ideas just for tonight. And her response? To black bag Samira.įor the time being, Carrie was able to make it right but not before admitting to Samira that she’ll do nothing to truly punish G’ulom… only that she’ll hurt his hold on power. government spook and got her face snapshotted on a phone. Instead of coming off as a potential NGO head hunter, Jenna all but announced that she was some type of U.S. My theory about Jenna Bragg being a faux-rookie intended to cozy up to Carrie proved to be for naught since she really did bungle the operation to manipulate Samira Noori. Along the way, however, some interesting developments occur. The tip leads Carrie to a woman whose husband was killed for criticizing G’ulom’s corruption, and she in turn leads Carrie to leverage over the vice president. In classic Homeland fashion, we’re allowed to see Carrie work at the top of her skillset… once she has a lead thanks to an anonymous tip on her desk. Fine then, if he only responds to bribery or menace, Carrie will find that gun. Claire Danes responds with her patented ability to simultaneously rally and crumble in a single stare. When he scoffs “what happened to you?” he all but outright states she’s damaged goods in his eyes, undoubtedly due to what Yevgeny told him just moments ago. Forced to suggest an entire relationship in a single scene, the transactional level of respect he has for Carrie is underlined by his insults: The Carrie he knew wouldn’t have come into his office begging for him to do the right thing-she’d have a gift or a proverbial gun to his head. Mohammad Bakri does sterling work of oozing arrogance and doting contempt as G’ulom. Picking up minutes after the revelation last week that Yevgeny had just met with G’ulom, a visibly shaken Carrie is forced to immediately walk into the lion’s den. Presented to have some history with Afghan Vice President Abdul G’ulom, she is there to find the requisite pressure needed to be placed on the insubordinate politician. In the case of Carrie, tonight pretty much wraps up the narrative pretense the writer’s room used to bring someone so theoretically fragile into the thick of things.
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