Homeland (TV Series) Uh...Oo...Aw (2013) User Reviews

Follow the money

[Tweekums · 7/10 · 17 October 2013]

This episode sees things getting even worse for Carrie; having been hung out to dry by Saul she decides to tell her story to the press; this is something the CIA can't tolerate and soon she finds herself being taken into protective custody officially because of her mental condition but, if she is to be believed, to prevent her from talking. Things also don't look so good in the Brody household as Dana's relationship with her mother deteriorates further and she runs away from home into the arms of a boy at the mental hospital. There is more to the episode than characters mental problems though; back at the CIA a new worker has arrived; Fara Sherazi is a Muslim woman employed for her language skills she also has a nose for financial matters and soon uncovers a connection between a New York based bank and Iranians suspected of involvement in the CIA bombing.

This episode will be a disappointment for anybody expecting action or even a sense of real threat; however I still found it interesting overall. The main interest was the introduction of Fara Sherazi as she served to advance the main plot as the CIA follow the money in the hunt for the bombers. While there wasn't action there was a nicely menacing scene were Quinn confronts one of the backers; actor Rupert Friend is very convincing as this quiet but scary agent. The more personal stories weren't quite as gripping; after all we've seen Carrie's mental problems before and the worries at the Brody household felt as though they were mainly there to remind us that the still exist while the wanted Nicolas Brody is missing.

Poor Carrie

[fuad_tarin_58 · 7/10 · 31 March 2023]

You can't feel anything else then sorry for Carrie. She saved everyone including Estes in season 1 and as a reward they fired her and put her in a mental hospital.

In season two she managed to get a new job and live a normal life with her family without the CIA(evn tho deep inside she wanted get back) and they draged her back and used her to get what they wanted. At the end she managed to save somehow everyone again, but she got outsmarted by Abu Nazir. Well everyone did, but yet again the one getting all the Blame is her again. Getting locked into mental hospital again.. even Saul is betraying her. Yes he is somehow helping her but the way he does is sick, and she is like a daughter to him.

The only person actually beaing somehow on her side is Quinn. Carrie has her own problem, i know that. And she is manipulative and will use whatever she has to get what she wants, but to treat someone like this that has given so much for the Nation and the CIA is nothing more then a betrayel.

Great acting as usually by Carrie, Saul and Quinn.

A break from the action to explore the reactions of two women with mental health issues abandoned by those around them and pushed to their limits

[diffley-480-986784 · 10/10 · 30 October 2016]

Sure, this episode does very little to advance the primary narrative. However, it is an excellent depiction of two woman who have been thrown into despair with the recent bombing and feeling that the primary male figure in their life that they trusted has betrayed them (Dana + her dad, Carrie + Saul). I enjoyed the back and forth and largely first-person point of view of both as they struggled to come to terms with their new situation. Both of them are marginalized by those around them due to their mental health issues and they are truly fighting for themselves. Try and watch episode from their perspective and look at how trapped they must feel. I thought it was a powerful episode overall, albeit one with subject matter and focus away from the primary terrorism narrative.

Saul is great

[francogrex · 10/10 · 20 March 2021]

I think within Saul Berenson this show wouldn't be as good. He's the essential part aside from Carrie. Murray is fine but he is secondary.

A disappointing direction of a once great show...

[sandal-rake · 1/10 · 7 October 2013]

It boggles the mind that a show that gave us political intrigue and an exciting blend of terrorist drama and agency machinations has effectively been reduced to some romantic drivel about Brody's family and their oh so difficult time after his disappearance. Nobody cares! And what is it with the writers' fixation with having Carrie suffer and get brutalized by hospital staff all the time. I swear, if I have to see Claire Danes' contorted face one more time, I'll go and punch a kitten. Also, where the heck is Brody?

If this show wants to get back on track, it should really reevaluate what made it great in the first place: tension, intrigue, the suspense of figuring out Brody's mind and the indispensable role of Brody's son to the central plot. (That last one was a joke. Useless character if there ever was one.)

Turned into a teen drama

[davidallen-817-689940 · 1/10 · 14 October 2013]

What is going on with this show? Are writers on drugs? How is it that the star of the show, Brody, doesn't show up until the third episode. That's like Nikita missing from the first two episodes of Nikita. To make matters worse, the writers, in their infinite wisdom, decided to fill the empty time by throwing the co-star of the show, Carrie, back into the Loony Bin -- like that was overwhelmingly interesting when they did it the first time in season 2.

This was a great show that has turned into a teen drama with Brody's, non- interesting, family sharing center stage with Saul. Don't get me wrong, I like Saul but he can't carry the show by himself.

Worst episode so far - teenage angst and women crying

[dierregi · 1/10 · 30 March 2021]

I already complained about episode 1 of the third series, only to find out that episode 2 is much worse. Nothing happens to move the plot forward except that the authors decided it would be a good idea to devote half episode to Dana's teenage tragedy.

Excuse me if I thought this was a spy story but found myself watching Dana being her usual self-centred drama queen instead. Let's not even mention the teenage romance. The whole Dana plot is insufferably stupid and her character is banal, besides being superfluous.

Carrie is not faring much better, doing her crazy thing yet again, after having been committed - yet again - to the loony bin.

The rest of the plot was about a Muslim woman being recruited by Saul and proving herself a wizard genius. Except she cried when Saul was a bit rude to her, which with Dana and Carrie hysterics makes for three sensitive, troubled women in a go.

Way too much soap opera. Really hoping this will pick up with the next episode and also sad to see that only after 2 seasons they're already loosing steam.

What a waste of time

[evaneechoud · 2/10 · 6 June 2020]

What a waste of time. They need 3 hours to build a new sorry line. A kid of 4 could do better.

Is the writer's delusion really that Carrie is being maltreated?

[sogoodlooking · 4/10 · 20 April 2022]

She's vicious. She turns on Saul. She betrays him. She turns on her family. She turns on Quinn---but all of this is somehow presented as Carrie being... misunderstood? Abused? Maltreated?

You cannot be serious.

Danes' inability to play Carrie with any nuance at all---it's either bugeyed disturbance or hyperactive righteousness---makes it all even worse. Dana's subplot by contrast is actually something of a relief. Morgan Saylor doesn't have much more range than Danes, but at least she's capable of some nuance.

hard to believe....

[ShropshireLass123 · 4/10 · 8 May 2023]

I'm finding it hard to believe that the US forces women who are acting normally against their will to be committed to mental institutions - for what? This was not clear at all. It seemed rather gratuitous. Then we see her strapped to a bed and forcibly injected without any rationale whatsoever, basically an assault. Then we find her sitting on a bed shackled to it when she is talking normally with a cage-like background. Again it all smacked of inhumanity and human rights breaches and no medical input whatsoever so the whole thing was purely gratuitous and apart from that it gave a very bad impression of the mental health system in the US if that is what happens there.