Movies and TV Homeland on Showtime - Page 8

**BigRedChief** · 10-11-2011, 08:40 PM

Looks promising. Lots of good actors and a premise with lots of potential.

beach tribe · 10-10-2012, 11:22 AM

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No shit. Fantastic episode this week. Fantastic twist at the end. Another layer of plot to explore. The people who are not watching this show are missing out.

Gonna download it tonight. Lots of good shows right now. I've never been into this many shows in my life.
Homeland
The Walking Dead (coming)
And Dexter

Just fantastic Television shows.

Am I missing anything?

KevB · 10-10-2012, 02:16 PM

The question I have is : Is Brody too embedded in United States Politics at this point to allow it to get out that he's a traitor? The current VP, Walden, has already floated Brody's name as his choice as his running mate and next VP....guilt by association would kill Walden's chances to become the next President. He can't let that happen. Watching the politics play out despite this apparent smoking gun will be incredibly interesting to watch.

WoodDraw · 10-10-2012, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by KevB

The question I have is : Is Brody too embedded in United States Politics at this point to allow it to get out that he's a traitor? The current VP, Walden, has already floated Brody's name as his choice as his running mate and next VP....guilt by association would kill Walden's chances to become the next President. He can't let that happen. Watching the politics play out despite this apparent smoking gun will be incredibly interesting to watch.

I think we're about to see the conspiracy get bigger.

KevB · 10-10-2012, 02:56 PM

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I think we're about to see the conspiracy get bigger.

Absolutely

**BigRedChief** · 10-10-2012, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by KevB

The question I have is : Is Brody too embedded in United States Politics at this point to allow it to get out that he's a traitor? The current VP, Walden, has already floated Brody's name as his choice as his running mate and next VP....guilt by association would kill Walden's chances to become the next President. He can't let that happen. Watching the politics play out despite this apparent smoking gun will be incredibly interesting to watch.

They can just make him a suicide, have an accident, go postal, the number of options to make him go away and not let the stench get on them,

But, I think this show is going down the cover up/conspiracy route.

KevB · 10-10-2012, 09:06 PM

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They can just make him a suicide, have an accident, go postal, the number of options to make him go away and not let the stench get on them,

But, I think this show is going down the cover up/conspiracy route.

Correct, no way they kill off a guy that just won best actor Emmy.

Pants · 10-10-2012, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by beach tribe

Gonna download it tonight. Lots of good shows right now. I've never been into this many shows in my life.
Homeland
The Walking Dead (coming)
And Dexter

Just fantastic Television shows.

Am I missing anything?

Homeland is like the NFL compared to the high school ball of the Walking Dead and Dexter (IMO).

I think you will really enjoy Homeland, man.

**BigRedChief** · 10-16-2012, 07:03 PM

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Correct, no way they kill off a guy that just won best actor Emmy.

Holy shit that was a great episode. Best acting of the series. Brody's scene in the woods and Carries attempt at suicide was emmy winning worthy.

Sorter · 10-16-2012, 07:19 PM

Just when I shit on this show and am down on it, it has to go and

Seriously, this episode was awesome and I can't wait for the next. Totally eating crow for what I had said.

Interested in Estes role in this, as it is going to be him, Saul, and Carrie that know the truth.

WoodDraw · 10-16-2012, 09:03 PM

I really thought they'd drag the Carrrie forgetting thing out and then have an "aha" moment. And I was ready to trash the first episode. And then the ending!

And then I thought they had him lose the sd card...and I thought surely they won't cop out that way. And they didn't.

I had a lot of questions about this show, but this season has been excellent so far.

KC_Connection · 10-16-2012, 10:21 PM

Just watched all the episodes of this show in the last few weeks. Very good writing and acting. It was very interesting at the beginning of the series that you couldn't even really trust Carrie as a narrator and it made you doubt a lot that was going on. It's also rare to have two central characters in Carrie and Brody that are both so complex. They each believe they're doing the right thing based on their own perspectives of the world, but they're also both incredibly flawed and damaged (Carrie is bipolar and will stop at absolutely nothing to achieve her goals while Brody has become a sociopath during his time as a POW and is torn between his country and his terrorist captors). The 2nd season has also started off just as good as the last, perhaps better. It looks like they're going to explore their relationship for the rest of the season, and I hope they do, because the scenes when they were together in S1 were among the best.

OmahaChief · 10-17-2012, 09:05 AM

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Carries attempt at suicide was emmy winning worthy.

The way this was handled bothered me. So she takes a ton of pills and nothing every happens and then she is back to normal. Shouldn't she have not had some sickness or stomach pumping...hell anything. Only thing I can think of is that the pills she is taking are not really pills they are placebo to trick her mind into being right, if that were the case it would not kill her.

duncan_idaho · 10-17-2012, 09:22 AM

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The way this was handled bothered me. So she takes a ton of pills and nothing every happens and then she is back to normal. Shouldn't she have not had some sickness or stomach pumping...hell anything. Only thing I can think of is that the pills she is taking are not really pills they are placebo to trick her mind into being right, if that were the case it would not kill her.

Did you miss the part where she gagged herself 5 minutes later and forcible vomited up everything else?

This show is awesome. Just started watching it about a month ago, and it's one of my favorites on TV now. Just a really tightly wound show. Superb all the way around.

As for the identity of the mole... I could see it being Galvez (And Brody was the one who passed him the razor blade).

**keg in kc** · 10-17-2012, 11:01 AM

I've watched the whole series in the last week. The acting is fantastic, the production is top notch, the only difficulty I have is that some of the plotting is just so far-fetched that it's hard to suspend disbelief. Which is saying something for me. But all-in-all it's a really good series so far.

OmahaChief · 10-17-2012, 11:05 AM

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Did you miss the part where she gagged herself 5 minutes later and forcible vomited up everything else?

I must have totally missed that part. I figured their must have been something else that happened. This must have been the time my little one was screaming for me to come upstairs. Thanks for filling me in!

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10-10-2012, 02:16 PM	#107
KevB Agree to Disagree Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: The State of Euphoria Casino cash: $72653	The question I have is : Is Brody too embedded in United States Politics at this point to allow it to get out that he's a traitor? The current VP, Walden, has already floated Brody's name as his choice as his running mate and next VP....guilt by association would kill Walden's chances to become the next President. He can't let that happen. Watching the politics play out despite this apparent smoking gun will be incredibly interesting to watch. __________________ Q: Did you know something was wrong right away? HUARD: “Yeah, it was just kind of a funny feeling in my groin.”
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10-16-2012, 07:19 PM	#114
Sorter Caralho Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Salvador Casino cash: $100024813	Just when I shit on this show and am down on it, it has to go and Seriously, this episode was awesome and I can't wait for the next. Totally eating crow for what I had said. Interested in Estes role in this, as it is going to be him, Saul, and Carrie that know the truth.
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10-16-2012, 09:03 PM	#115
WoodDraw Veteran Join Date: Mar 2004 Casino cash: $33723	I really thought they'd drag the Carrrie forgetting thing out and then have an "aha" moment. And I was ready to trash the first episode. And then the ending! And then I thought they had him lose the sd card...and I thought surely they won't cop out that way. And they didn't. I had a lot of questions about this show, but this season has been excellent so far.
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10-16-2012, 10:21 PM	#116
KC_Connection MVP Join Date: Jan 2006 Casino cash: $10184461	Just watched all the episodes of this show in the last few weeks. Very good writing and acting. It was very interesting at the beginning of the series that you couldn't even really trust Carrie as a narrator and it made you doubt a lot that was going on. It's also rare to have two central characters in Carrie and Brody that are both so complex. They each believe they're doing the right thing based on their own perspectives of the world, but they're also both incredibly flawed and damaged (Carrie is bipolar and will stop at absolutely nothing to achieve her goals while Brody has become a sociopath during his time as a POW and is torn between his country and his terrorist captors). The 2nd season has also started off just as good as the last, perhaps better. It looks like they're going to explore their relationship for the rest of the season, and I hope they do, because the scenes when they were together in S1 were among the best.
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10-17-2012, 11:01 AM	#119
keg in kc oxymoron Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: OP/KC/Whatever Casino cash: $326058	I've watched the whole series in the last week. The acting is fantastic, the production is top notch, the only difficulty I have is that some of the plotting is just so far-fetched that it's hard to suspend disbelief. Which is saying something for me. But all-in-all it's a really good series so far.
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