shelley1234

Ok, while I found the whole Saul storyline totally riveting and couldn't take my eyes off it....I have a few problems. One, it actually takes quite a bit of prep and usually a harness to fake hanged yourself. I doubt Saul would have been able to get that done with the lovely provisions he was given in his cell....stolen nail from the floor included. In the time it took the guard to hear him and get in and take him down....in the real world Saul would be dead. Secondly, while the final scene with Saul and Carrie was heartbreaking...when the Taliban are circling him, doesn't he still have a gun? Couldn't he have called Carrie a lying bitch and then shot himself in the face? Just asking...

I considered it an absolute fact that Whitney was lying and was involved as soon as she threw her phone in the pool. Kids consider their phones to be more important than their lives, so if she is chucking it in the pool....yeah, she bullied that girl something fierce. Case closed.

I've thought about this and the conclusion I came to is that Cole interacts differently with Alison than he does with most other people in his life. Cole was grandstanding with Oscar and the townsfolk at the town meeting. Cole says with a firm finality to his family that they are NOT selling the ranch and then is called a bully by Alison's mother. However his interactions are much softer, kinder and less dominant with Alison. It's the one interaction where he doesn't act like he is in charge...she does. He invites her most places he goes and doesn't balk if she doesn't want to come. He relents to her opinion often, etc. It may be that he is walking on eggshells around her since the loss of their son, but I just found the difference really interesting.

Ahh, they are clearly starting the slow roll to putting Nick and Jess back together.

Yep. For sure. Kane and Crystal were absolute comic geniuses in what was a teeny tiny part. I've always been a huge fan of Carol Kane and was happy to see that her character of Cobblepot's mother wasn't just a one and done. The first thing I ever remember seeing Kane in was the PBS broadcast of the play Into the Woods. She was just mesmerizing. She was also one of the ghosts in Scrooged with Bill Murray. (and Corey Haim's mom in License to Drive). And yes, I am old. *hat tip*

That's how I saw it as well....it was all part of the con.

This episode was totally made by Bullock openly calling Gordon an asshat while calling out his fellow officers for not helping him. And then of course Gordon basically thanking him for it. Adorbs. Fine Gordon being all bad ass in his fight club session was not bad either. Hummina.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder because I'll take Pacey Witter with a beard any day vs. the poor man's version of Jon Hamm.

Bailey is Alison's maiden name.

I read Oscar's intentions differently. Unlike Cole who wants the Island to belong to the townies....Oscar desperately wants to be in with the rich, summer folk. Oscar saw his chance encounter with Noah as a way to get himself "in" with the Butlers and move up his social standing a wee bit. That is why he wanted to invite Noah fishing and why he went to the house to follow up.....not for Noah, but to get in with the in laws.

This is the first time we've seen Alison's version first, isn't it? I also noticed that in the clothes difference is was also switched. Alison is usually more casually dressed in her version and vamped up in Noah's. This time in her version she is wearing pretty dresses and in Noah's version she is wearing jeans and a tank top. I found that interesting. For the first time in the series, I actually felt that Noah and Alison actually wanted one another. I believed their relationship and how important it is to both of them. It also showed just what they are running from when they are running to one another. Alison's mom is a wackadoodle, eh? It also shows you why Alison would glom on to the Lockharts so quickly since it gave her a sense of security and family that she clearly never had. She's had to be a grownup for a very long time because her mother clearly refuses to. I also think her mother may be the window into why she needs to escape so much. In Noah's version....boy could Oscar being any more of a Stage 5 Clinger. He almost seems obsessed with Noah. Creepy. Of course, it is Noah's version and in Noah's version he is often all that and then some.

Oh no, he's totally in on it.

Both were hallucinations. Quinn was in the war room later discussing whether he thought Haqqani and Saul were on the move and didn't seem at all phased that Carrie just went all CrazyPants on him.

"Now you've done it, you've made me turn my chair."

I am pretty sure I officially hate Homeland. So Carrie goes one day without her meds and turns into a babbling, incoherent basket case? One of the things that drives me bonkers about the show is how wildly inconsistent they are with Carrie and her mental health. Season One she turns into a basket case within days of not having her meds and her sister needs to come over and be with her to get her through it. Later on she is symptom free through the magical world of positive thought and running. She has been shown to be in situations where she clearly doesn't have access to her meds before and only shows symptoms when it is convenient for the show. Disappointed show, disappointed. And once again they are in the middle of an absolute crisis and no one notices that Carrie is missing? Jesus, the fake version of the CIA in Homeland sure does suck. On a shallow note...it was nice to see Damian Lewis and his pretty eyes again, even if he is only in Carrie's head.

If I ignore the creepy Fitz phone sex, I actually really liked this episode. The Abby storyline was just done so well. Showing her strength and resolve juxtaposed with moments of still being absolutely terrified. We had always heard about the brutal violence from Abby's well connected husband, but it was nice to see a resolution to that back story. It was also great to see the show continue to actually show us the friendship between Abby and Liv. I know that they are supposed to be friends, but the last two episodes have really showed it to us. Liv showing up with the dresses and prioritizing Abby was really nice to see. Also, before I had no feelings one way or another about Leo, but seeing that he put a human being above the political engine was a great thing to see....and seeing Abby smiling and laughing at the end showed that healing is possible. So glad her hubby got what was coming to him and for once it wasn't Liv who did it. Papa Pope....can someone kill him please? Huck and his son just breaks my heart. I did love that his son was the one who found him.

I think with the season long arc of the guy stalking Beth we get that, but we also get the case of the week of what they are working on. How the show is set up, they have to have it be a short game because everything needs to come to a head and be wrapped up quickly. So far, so good with me.

I usually like him, but thought he was dreadful in the episode. When he was talking to Bomer's character in the bar it just felt so fake and over the top. It reminded me of people the first week in acting/drama class when they try out some dramatic scene. Brutal.

I agree, I will not take Rocker's word on ANYTHING. He has zero credibility. Nada.

I love me some Fabio, so I was slightly disappointed to see him lose. I really loved the Celebrity edition....and thought all the participants really had fun with it. I didn't see many, if any at all, get all snitty or bitchy about their sabotages. They all took them with charm and grace. In that aspect, I was most impressed with Marcel. The Marcel of old wouldn't have been able to stop himself from being dickish when a sabotage would come his way. He would also enjoy in a not nice way when someone else suffered. It's been a welcome change in Marcel in the last few years how that side of his personality has really gone away. He was charming and full of smiles....and when he did give someone a hard time it was definitely in the realm of harmless ribbing. I kinda want to try that grapefruit lolly-blop. I love me some grapefruit! I am also really impressed that Eric won without much of his money basically twice. That takes some serious skill.

Why is this odd? Gay couples can be people of faith and choose to wait until marriage just as much as straight couples. As for Julie. I am kind of on her side. We have seen people be incredibly reckless with food this season and so I might do the same thing if I was her. I would take it and then ration it out. Of course, I'd probably tell people that is what I was doing though. I'd take my share and tell people I am not eating it, but hiding it away. If someone told me they didn't like it....I'd tell them the story of eating their rice like hogs and tell them to shove it. Her quitting? Boo. Did she think this was going to be a vacation? Of course we know she only went because Rocker basically made her, so it's peace out time for her. Bu-bye.

For me, Carrie's crazed reaction to Aayan's death had little to do with Aayan himself and any feelings she may have for him, but more to do with...well....Brody. It brought back all those thoughts and emotions about everything that happened with him and how he died right in front of her eyes as well. This time she felt she could make the person who did it PAY and was rabid to do that since when it was Brody she just had to sit there, let it happen and do nothing about it.

I've always felt that was very intentional...mixing items from different time periods to make it a more timeless story.

I watched Joshua Jackson on Conan last night and he said something very similar that the show highlights that there is no actual truth...just what someone experiences as their truth. I think it is one of the things that attracts me most to the show is how there can be two vastly different recounts of the same event. Conan mentioned what we have all mentioned numerous times over that the difference in clothes between the two stories is so dynamic and just brings you into the "he said" "she said" angle. Josh then went on to tell Conan the other side of the horrible first date story that his girlfriend Diane Kruger told the last time she was on his show. Ahh Joshie.

AND that during the shootout Gordon actually got hit not once, but twice. I am SO used to the "hero" getting shot at by 8 different gunmen and no one making contact (I'm looking at YOU Jack Bauer.) It was nice to see the villains have just as good aim for once.