1. "Q & A," Homeland
Homeland subverts viewers' expectations at every turn, so it makes sense that we get this high-quality showdown between Carrie and Brody not at the end of Season 2, but a mere five hours into it.
Homeland subverts viewers' expectations at every turn, so it makes sense that we get this high-quality showdown between Carrie and Brody not at the end of Season 2, but a mere five hours into it.
Despite
being in the custody of CIA agents who have seen his suicide tape,
Brody insists (even after getting a knife jabbed through his hand!) that
he never went through with his plan to blow up the vice president.
Enter Carrie, who systematically takes Brody the Terrorist apart and
rebuilds him as Brody the Double Agent for the CIA who confesses to
everything and agrees to help the Company dismantle Abu Nazir's U.S.
terrorist cell. By appealing to Brody's innate, paternal instinct (not
to mention his feelings for her), Carrie undoes in one conversation what
Abu Nazir spent years doing. It's a master class in the art of
interrogation and, in the hands of Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, a
master class of acting.
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