In the Season 2 finale, Carrie is faced with a pivotal decision, while Brody meets with Faber to contemplate the future of the family.Free Download Video Homeland 16th December 2012 Episode On Showtime Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Homeland Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV. Meanwhile, Saul undertakes a secret assignment; and Quinn has a decision to make that may prove to be a game-changer. This episode, “In Memoriam”, where they lay Nazir to rest, I mean, damn. Sure, this was the episode where some things come to a close, but they were almost eventualities instead of climaxes, you know? Carrie is tired. It’s not just the obvious, that they took this opportunity to have Danes appear without mascara (and let’s hear it for the realism, we would have screeched if they’d done it the other way) but also that now, having caught the terrorist she’s been working toward for years, having put her life in danger and emerged unscathed (sort of), having earned the approval of her superiors, although the word of David Estes means precious little to her anymore – with all this, Carrie is just beginning to wonder whether it’s worth it.Check those rubbings of the wrists. She wasn’t just in pain and she wasn’t just debating whether or not she had forgotten anything she learned in those moments. I feel like, when Carrie was so certain that Nazir was still in the mill (unnecessary timewaster to track down the Galvez red herring notwithstanding), she knew he was there, so she knew he would be caught. And so she started to think about what her life would be like after he was, which was not a when, and not an if.It’s not that great, really. Once her job – being Brody’s translator – is finished, she’ll be released under one of David’s dictates, won’t have a job (certainly, from the way things look, won’t have a mentor), so what does she have to look forward to, exactly?
My answer was supposed to come at minute 50 of tonight’s show when Brody shows up at her door, but despite what Jessica says, that is a damaged man – and not in a way that can be salvaged. Because we know the assassination attempt won’t be successful (and we know this because the show is being built on Damian Lewis’ chemistry with Danes), it’s conceivable that he and Carrie could stay together … but are we kidding? Is this high school? Without the Romeo and Juliet life-and-death stuff, can those two make a life together? Figure out who’s cleaning and who’s making coffee? Please.
It won’t be any better for either of them, which is something that will, ironically, give Dana Brody no pleasure. I know the girl gets a bad rap these days, and I too wish she would look into trimming that hair and maybe, unlike her father, opening her mouth a bit. But I cut her a lot of slack because she’s discovering that horrible thing that kids of divorce realize, if they’re older than 12 or so when it happens: it’s both their faults.
You really, really want to blame one of them, and Dana had all the reason in the world to blame her mother. That was super convenient. And then, when the pressures of being “Brody’s daughter” became too ridiculously big, well, then, it became his fault, when he lied and cheated and put them endlessly in danger. Dana had every right to hate them both, and she tried her best, in irritating fashion this season.
Saul's defiant streak is echoed by Carrie actions as she frantically searches the industrial complex for her captor. The CIA taskforce led by Quinn insist that they've combed over every inch of the place and that there's not even a whiff of the terrorist mastermind to be found.
After he managed to swoop down and capture Carrie in the middle of DC, by this point Nazir seems to have taken on a supernatural demon-like role, a shadow that can never be caught. In desperation Carrie suspects a mole saying, "If Nazir got away someone must have helped him".
Galvez, who mysteriously returned last week after missing the majority of this season, seemed perfectly primed to be the traitor on the inside, but thankfully he turned out to be a red herring. Homeland has been criticised in some quarters for its negative portrayal of Arabs, and to have the one Muslim CIA member turn out to be a terrorist would have been the final straw.
And so what of Abu Nazir? After finally learning how to say it and understand that it was the same guy regardless of beard, did you feel cheated out of the assassination, as I did? Did you want to see him be truly powerful? To exert control over Brody even when there should have been no reason? (Sidebar: Brody’s loss of control when he heard about Nazir – equal parts grief and relief – was a nice understated moment in an otherwise kind of hamfisted plot.)
A friend of mine pointed out that he hopes there’s a “transfer of power”. Right now there’s the semblance of a vacuum, but also the semblance of apathy. With only one episode left, is the person who ultimately turns the tables – and I think we should lower our expectations, based on the twists this season – going to be the one who cares the most? Isn’t that always Carrie?
There is Saul, of course. Browbeaten Saul who knows a lot and made his Hail Mary pass when he told the lie detector what he knew. If people are supposed to change, then Saul has plenty of room to move up from where he is. What will he be able to do, though, in just one small episode? The promo wants me to believe nothing. But the promo also wants me to believe six soldiers are ceremoniously tossing Brody’s body in the ocean, and…somehow I’m not buying that one.But Carrie is right to believe that Nazir hasn't escaped. Her 'good cop' approach during Roya's interrogation spectacularly backfires when the journalist explodes in anger saying, "You think you understand me, or what my family have lost and suffered?" before hailing a series of Arabic expletives in her direction.
But with shrewd attention to detail she notes how Roya says, "Nazir wouldn't run," and is adamant that he is still lurking in the depths of his hideout. The part where Carrie discovers Nazir in the ventilation complex is a scene straight from a horror film as the terrorist thrashes out at Carrie liked a trapped animal.
Surrounded by a CIA death-squad, Nazir's ritualised death is enacted as he is gunned down before he can reach his gun. Despite being the mastermind that the CIA has worked against throughout the show's history, the nadir of Nazir is quite pathetic.
Echoing Bin Laden's demise, in the end you are left underwhelmed by the fact that so much money, time and resources has been poured into ending the life of just one man. The lacklustre look that Carrie wears upon seeing his corpse shows that for those in the CIA this is not something that you should celebrate.
My answer was supposed to come at minute 50 of tonight’s show when Brody shows up at her door, but despite what Jessica says, that is a damaged man – and not in a way that can be salvaged. Because we know the assassination attempt won’t be successful (and we know this because the show is being built on Damian Lewis’ chemistry with Danes), it’s conceivable that he and Carrie could stay together … but are we kidding? Is this high school? Without the Romeo and Juliet life-and-death stuff, can those two make a life together? Figure out who’s cleaning and who’s making coffee? Please.
It won’t be any better for either of them, which is something that will, ironically, give Dana Brody no pleasure. I know the girl gets a bad rap these days, and I too wish she would look into trimming that hair and maybe, unlike her father, opening her mouth a bit. But I cut her a lot of slack because she’s discovering that horrible thing that kids of divorce realize, if they’re older than 12 or so when it happens: it’s both their faults.
You really, really want to blame one of them, and Dana had all the reason in the world to blame her mother. That was super convenient. And then, when the pressures of being “Brody’s daughter” became too ridiculously big, well, then, it became his fault, when he lied and cheated and put them endlessly in danger. Dana had every right to hate them both, and she tried her best, in irritating fashion this season.
Saul's defiant streak is echoed by Carrie actions as she frantically searches the industrial complex for her captor. The CIA taskforce led by Quinn insist that they've combed over every inch of the place and that there's not even a whiff of the terrorist mastermind to be found.
After he managed to swoop down and capture Carrie in the middle of DC, by this point Nazir seems to have taken on a supernatural demon-like role, a shadow that can never be caught. In desperation Carrie suspects a mole saying, "If Nazir got away someone must have helped him".
Galvez, who mysteriously returned last week after missing the majority of this season, seemed perfectly primed to be the traitor on the inside, but thankfully he turned out to be a red herring. Homeland has been criticised in some quarters for its negative portrayal of Arabs, and to have the one Muslim CIA member turn out to be a terrorist would have been the final straw.
And so what of Abu Nazir? After finally learning how to say it and understand that it was the same guy regardless of beard, did you feel cheated out of the assassination, as I did? Did you want to see him be truly powerful? To exert control over Brody even when there should have been no reason? (Sidebar: Brody’s loss of control when he heard about Nazir – equal parts grief and relief – was a nice understated moment in an otherwise kind of hamfisted plot.)
A friend of mine pointed out that he hopes there’s a “transfer of power”. Right now there’s the semblance of a vacuum, but also the semblance of apathy. With only one episode left, is the person who ultimately turns the tables – and I think we should lower our expectations, based on the twists this season – going to be the one who cares the most? Isn’t that always Carrie?
There is Saul, of course. Browbeaten Saul who knows a lot and made his Hail Mary pass when he told the lie detector what he knew. If people are supposed to change, then Saul has plenty of room to move up from where he is. What will he be able to do, though, in just one small episode? The promo wants me to believe nothing. But the promo also wants me to believe six soldiers are ceremoniously tossing Brody’s body in the ocean, and…somehow I’m not buying that one.But Carrie is right to believe that Nazir hasn't escaped. Her 'good cop' approach during Roya's interrogation spectacularly backfires when the journalist explodes in anger saying, "You think you understand me, or what my family have lost and suffered?" before hailing a series of Arabic expletives in her direction.
But with shrewd attention to detail she notes how Roya says, "Nazir wouldn't run," and is adamant that he is still lurking in the depths of his hideout. The part where Carrie discovers Nazir in the ventilation complex is a scene straight from a horror film as the terrorist thrashes out at Carrie liked a trapped animal.
Surrounded by a CIA death-squad, Nazir's ritualised death is enacted as he is gunned down before he can reach his gun. Despite being the mastermind that the CIA has worked against throughout the show's history, the nadir of Nazir is quite pathetic.
Echoing Bin Laden's demise, in the end you are left underwhelmed by the fact that so much money, time and resources has been poured into ending the life of just one man. The lacklustre look that Carrie wears upon seeing his corpse shows that for those in the CIA this is not something that you should celebrate.