Homeland: Season 4, Episode 3 “Shalwar Kameez” (B+)
Obviously, this show is very good and there’s little to complain about with this episode in particular. The problem is that it’s nowhere near what it used to be, and there’s little hope of it reaching that anytime in the near future. Carrie and Quinn are compelling, magnetic characters, but the lack of an additional element – someone like Brody – makes it far less enticing. Carrie trying to reconstruct Sandy’s final moments is interesting, and I love that she opted to bypass a more subtle second attempt to talk to Aayan in favor of pretending to be a pregnant woman in pain to lure him into a bathroom. But I don’t know how far that will go and what kind of secrets it will unfurl, since there’s no Abu Nazir to chase and we don’t know anything about this person that Quinn recognized in the video. At least this should get Quinn back into the action, because wallowing in self-pity and alcohol and being cruel to the manager who clearly likes him wasn’t doing him much good. Dar was relatively helpful in prompting Quinn to get back on track with his blatant threats, and let’s hope that Quinn’s girlfriend didn’t actually overhear anything. It’s good to see Fara and Max again, both seeming much more confident as the secret second team in Pakistan. Carrie is going to have her work cut out for her with Michael O’Keefe’s John Redmond, who probably wouldn’t hate Carrie as much if Lockhart hadn’t reached out to him to appoint him the new station chief before she stole the job from him.
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