Homeland Recap: Season 2 Premiere!!!

Recaps

By MrsMiaWallace | Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | 6:28 pm | 8 Comments
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She tells Sal she can lose the tail and ditches the phone. Now we have a gratuitous chase scene through a market! Luckily Carrie is wearing a headscarf so not only is she hard to spot, when she finds herself trapped in a dead-end she is able to quickly haggle for a new color scarf to blend in!

“Coming through, no one pay any attention to the white lady”

The pursuer gets closer and Carrie uses the pretense of admiring her new purchase in a hand mirror to see him approaching behind her. He doesn’t see her yet, but his gun is drawn when she expertly knees him, kicks the dropped gun under a table and starts yelling in Arabic “help my husband, he is hurt!”, then high-tails it the other direction! That’s our Carrie!

She’s so proud of herself she breaks the 4th wall!

2am in the Brody household and the Congressman’s well-trained eyes snap open. It’s prayer time, but will he refrain? He heads to the garage, wraps the Qur’an in a white towel, kisses it and then… digs a hole for it in the back yard.

It’d be better for everyone if you’d just go to bed and kiss that hot wife of yours instead

Of course, 2am is not too late for a teen to be up and curious and Dana surprises him to ask what he’s up to. Brody explains that when Jess threw the Qur’an on the ground it tore some of the pages and desecrated the holy book so he is burying it out of respect. Dana accepts this in her calm pensive manner and offers to help.

 “The family that buries secrets together, stays together”

Well it looks like another kick-ass season! We have previews of Brody killing someone in the woods, the wifey’s boyfriend reappears, the wifey getting ever more suspicious of Brody, Carrie running around rooftops in an ambiguously middle-eastern setting, Carrie having a face-to-face with Brody and the tension and drama look to be cranked up to 11!

I personally think there is going to be some internal back and forth as it seems Brody’s getting very acclimated to the western ways of life and his politically charmed new opportunities. Will the fading memory of Issa’s death be enough to keep him on course? What will happen to Carrie? Her lingering look at her sister’s house makes me wonder if she will be coming back to that life or seeing her family again. Maybe this season’s twists will have her truly rogue and undercover most of the time, as I really don’t see how she could ever be an official agent again.

What about Sal? Will he be in Beirut the whole time? Killed in the fray? Will his Indian wife ever come back to him? Will Estes and this reporter become an item for the purpose of her gathering intel? Also do we get to have those great wiretap guys back? They were the best!

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MrsMiaWallace is an east coast girl with a  penchant for travel, libations and great cuisine. She is not known to turn down a mimosa or a martini and finds the transition between the two a good way to mark the passing of time since she can never remember to wear a watch. Her secret love for reality tv and addiction to Bravo have drawn her like a moth to the glittering snark of TVGasm,  where she finds there are others like her... hopefully also nursing Bloody Marys.

8 Comments

  1. 1
    JKW
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 1:02 am

    I LOVE this show. Carries big ass smile at the end was great. I had a big smile and was laughing . One thing I remembered when I saw the previous season re-runs they had on. When Sol took the lie detector test the needle spiked when they asked about slipping the terrorist a razor blade. He ran out of the room and never finished the test. I hope he is a good guy but it’s something to think about. So great to have this show back. Good job on the recap…I am sure it’s tough to recap with everything going on. Carrie and her dad are bipolar.

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    MrsMiaWallace MrsMiaWallace
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 6:48 am

    @JKW – I loved that moment of her being back on her game too! I had forgotten about Saul (spelling correction alert!) having a possibly shady backstory, but as her only supporter it makes sense that he has an unorthodox story somewhere too.

    Also thanks for the correction! I don’t know why I was thinking schizophrenic, I even read recently that Claire Danes did an extensive amount of research on the behavior and affectations of bipolar people to study her role. She’s getting major kudos from the medical and mental health community for her portrayal.

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    Bridget
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 6:56 am

    Now I am interested. What does the US Embassy in Beirut look like? I am always interested in how television shows or movies portray other countries especially when they get it wrong. Was the portrayal of Beirut at all factual? Okay back to recap.

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    MrsMiaWallace MrsMiaWallace
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 9:16 am

    I am very biased because Lebanon and Beirut specifically is one my favorite places. Beirut is moder, metropolitan, diverse and developed. The cafes, clubs and shops are some of the best in the world. Beirut used to be called the Paris of the Middle East and has worked very hard to rebuild that since the war. The most “rustic” thing about the city is the bullet holes that still riddle many of the buildings.

    My guess is the filming took place in a smaller village outskirt in Israel or Jordan. It looks like Egypt but there’s no way they could have filmed there recently. Also Lebanon is very liberal. The offices we worked with had women in headscarves and also women who looked like they shopped at Bebe for work clothes. It was more conservative in more rural regions, but I travelled from Tripoli to Tyre and was never looked at askance in short sleeves, long shorts and an uncovered head.

    As for security, the US building there are extremely guarded. In general all embassies are compounds with perimeter walls that are mandated to be a certain height and thickness. There is also a regulation on how far from the first building the wall must be (space for people outside with rocket launchers etc), and how thick the outside walls of the buildings must be. In regions with strife the roads and entrances would be cordoned off and heavily patrolled and guarded. I was there in a relatively peaceful period 3 years ago and we still never left the hotel without a convoy of armored, tinted cars. Much less driving out of an Embassy in a single sedan through the front entrance. Its laughable.

    The regional unrest and deepseated strife is a shame because Lebanon is lovely and very lush. Their national symbol is a tree because of their dense forests. Beirut is located on the sea and has a lovely coastline and mountainous topography. The city is very hilly and views of the harbor are breathtaking. The food and hospitality of the Lebanese is fantastic and traditional dinners are a hours-long 50+ plate affair. The cost of war is dear in both lives and culture for us all.

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    TiredinTacoma
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    Glad you caught the Schizophreniz vs Bipolar disorder diagnosis. Many people with Bipolar are very high functioning in high stress careers and remain stable with meds & stable schedules, big difference with schizophrenia! Love the recap, looking forward to the next episode!

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    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    Nice recap, Mrs. Mia. As a fellow “prestige premium cable” recapper, I know how hard it is to focus on being funny about a show you love. And you don’t even have Paul Sparks and Bobby Cannavale making a meal out of every piece of scenery they can find to make it a little easier.

    And while my own experience isn’t nearly as exotic as Beirut, whenever I watch Dexter I rupture tiny clusters in my brain spotting all the Long Beach landmarks that they use to sub for Miami, most egregiously the Long Beach convention center’s mural of blue whales. In Biscayne Bay. Really? Maybe it’s Showtime that doesn’t bother with continuity.

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    JKW
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 10:34 pm

    Correction noted Mrs Mia. I was assuming Sauls name was short for Solomon. Hope her sister sent a load of her meds with her or she will be bouncing off walls. Claire Danes does a great job and so does Damian Lewis. It sounds so weird when he speaks in a Brit accent. He was great in Band of Brothers. I have watched that over and over for yrs.

    It will be interesting to see if Carrie goes off the map. After Saul turned her in at that VP affair, she may not trust him.

    I don’t know if anyone else saw this but….this was an original series from Israel.

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    Goldie
    Posted October 5, 2012 at 8:21 am

    Wow, references to MSCL and The Game in one recap? I am impressed! Love this show, love Claire Danes. I am looking forward to the next episode like I used to look forward to seeing Jordan Catalano every Thursday!

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