By Robbie Jones
It’s time to check back in with everyone’s favourite mentally deficient CIA agent, Carrie Mathison! Now season 3 hasn’t been too great so far, but I think this episode might be a turning point, as we’re presented with very dramatic plot points....Delivered in extremely dull fashion. So, let’s get to it!
AND NO, BRODY IS NOT IN THIS GODDAMN EPISODE!
It’s time to check back in with everyone’s favourite mentally deficient CIA agent, Carrie Mathison! Now season 3 hasn’t been too great so far, but I think this episode might be a turning point, as we’re presented with very dramatic plot points....Delivered in extremely dull fashion. So, let’s get to it!
AND NO, BRODY IS NOT IN THIS GODDAMN EPISODE!
Carrie is hooked up to a polygraph, as Saul talks to his dream team (Quinn, Fara and Max) at their hideout whilst at home. Unfortunately, they lost track of Carrie and don’t know where she is. Mira comes down stairs and attempts to explain herself to Saul, admitting that she fell in love with her friend whilst separated from him. Saul smiles as though it’s music to his ears, and tells Mira that he’s not up for director of the CIA. She encourages him to get angry, but he just leaves. At the safe house, Saul tells Fara about his background with Javadi, claiming they were once allies, and Javadi promised his help to get 4 immigrants out of Iran. Instead, he gave them up to secure a place among the new regime’s intelligence ranks. As revenge, Saul got his wife and child out of the country and into America.
Javadi asks questions to Carrie whilst hooked up to the polygraph, but she soon drops the act and reveals that they know he embezzled funds and can make him an enemy in the state of Iran. When he asks why he hasn’t already been arrested, she states that Saul wants to see him first. They plan to meet at a nearby coffee shop, and Carrie returns home. She goes into the bathroom, where she tries a pregnancy test. The result is positive, but she already knows that, as she sticks it into an entire draw full of positive tests.
Oh my God! This week was an absolute goldmine for all the Chris-haters, as he reached new levels of pointlessness. Dana tells Jess she’d like to change her name, as it’s becoming too stressful to be Dana Brody, with her permission she changes it to her maiden name, Lazaro. As Jess and Chris prepare dinner, there’s a knock at the door. A girl named Angela comes in, and Dana reveals to her family that she’s moving out. And that is the moment when a blurred out Chris in the background dramatically stops stirring food. Her association with the Langley bomber has become too much to bear, which makes Jess understand and the pair hug it out. See, this scene was so emotional but I couldn’t help but laugh just seeing a blurred out Chris in the background like “Hey guys....I like hugs too....”As Jess leaves to get her something, the siblings quickly hug and she leaves, but not before Jess can give her a credit card with $300 on it. Jess and Chris hug as Dana drives away.
Oh my God! This week was an absolute goldmine for all the Chris-haters, as he reached new levels of pointlessness. Dana tells Jess she’d like to change her name, as it’s becoming too stressful to be Dana Brody, with her permission she changes it to her maiden name, Lazaro. As Jess and Chris prepare dinner, there’s a knock at the door. A girl named Angela comes in, and Dana reveals to her family that she’s moving out. And that is the moment when a blurred out Chris in the background dramatically stops stirring food. Her association with the Langley bomber has become too much to bear, which makes Jess understand and the pair hug it out. See, this scene was so emotional but I couldn’t help but laugh just seeing a blurred out Chris in the background like “Hey guys....I like hugs too....”As Jess leaves to get her something, the siblings quickly hug and she leaves, but not before Jess can give her a credit card with $300 on it. Jess and Chris hug as Dana drives away.
Javadi does not attend the meeting, but rather goes to a house. When Saul realises what house it is, he sends Carrie and Quinn to intercept him. The house belongs to his daughter in law, whom he shoots at the door, and then violently murders his ex-wife Fariba before the pair show up. They take Javadi to the safe house, and the house is taken over by homicide detectives before the CIA can get in and clean up. Saul questions why Fariba was living there, when she was in witness protection in California, but then goes to confront Javadi, where he merely punches him in the face.
So as usual, I’m going to expel all my complaints before I throw any praise, as even though this was so much better than previous episodes, it’s not without its problems. First off, we have the Carrie situation. She goes to the toilet, lets out the shortest amount of urine ever produced by one person and the test IMMEDIATELY goes positive. Now the show hasn’t always been realistic, especially in terms of how the CIA and terrorists work, but come on! That’s just stupid! And then it turns out she has loads of them, meaning she’s been in denial for some time. But the question is, who’s the daddy? I think the obvious answer is Brody, but with how long he’s been out of the country, she would have had started to show by now if it was his kid. The only other realistic possibility is that dude she drunkenly slept with at the start of the series, but that certainly doesn’t make for interesting TV. I’m sure a lot of people have jumped on the Quinn bandwagon, and they’ve secretly shagged and we don’t know about it.
So as usual, I’m going to expel all my complaints before I throw any praise, as even though this was so much better than previous episodes, it’s not without its problems. First off, we have the Carrie situation. She goes to the toilet, lets out the shortest amount of urine ever produced by one person and the test IMMEDIATELY goes positive. Now the show hasn’t always been realistic, especially in terms of how the CIA and terrorists work, but come on! That’s just stupid! And then it turns out she has loads of them, meaning she’s been in denial for some time. But the question is, who’s the daddy? I think the obvious answer is Brody, but with how long he’s been out of the country, she would have had started to show by now if it was his kid. The only other realistic possibility is that dude she drunkenly slept with at the start of the series, but that certainly doesn’t make for interesting TV. I’m sure a lot of people have jumped on the Quinn bandwagon, and they’ve secretly shagged and we don’t know about it.
Next up is Chris. I know I moan about him every week but this time it’s a serious moan rather than a humorous one. They seriously need to do something with him, it’s becoming boring having to watch him do nothing. There was a perfect opportunity for him here: Dana isn’t the only one suffering. Chris carries the Brody name too, and he gets the same stress and sure, he didn’t try to kill himself but that doesn’t mean that he’s not hurt. This could’ve been a perfect scene where quiet Chris lashes out at his sister, and tells him how he feels. But nope, he just stands aside and lets it happen. Maybe we’re building up to something here. Maybe there’s something brilliant coming up that we don’t know about. Perhaps Brody might make contact with him? Or the stress might drive him to something dangerous? *GASP* What if he’s the father of Carrie’s baby? Who knows. Hopefully something is coming up.
But otherwise, the show is definitely returning to form. True, I’m not fond of the way they deliver these big reveals but the fact that we’re getting them is good enough for me. All we need now is some more character development (Which we appear to be getting as Saul has gone a lot darker) and then, I think they should bring this character that used to be in the show. Yeah, there was a guy once, ginger, played by Damian Lewis and he used to be in it quite often but you rarely see him anymore. What’s his name....Oh yeah BRODY. Seriously writers, we need him back soon or the show will die.
But otherwise, the show is definitely returning to form. True, I’m not fond of the way they deliver these big reveals but the fact that we’re getting them is good enough for me. All we need now is some more character development (Which we appear to be getting as Saul has gone a lot darker) and then, I think they should bring this character that used to be in the show. Yeah, there was a guy once, ginger, played by Damian Lewis and he used to be in it quite often but you rarely see him anymore. What’s his name....Oh yeah BRODY. Seriously writers, we need him back soon or the show will die.
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