Homeland Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: It’s All Part Of The Plan. Or Is it? Wait, what?
I worry about Carrie constantly. I worry about Carrie while I watch the newest episode, after it’s done and the days before the next. I know Carrie isn’t real, but if she were, I would worry for her. I want her to take a nice long nap once this is all over – if it’s ever even going to be over for her. Carrie seems like one of those people that don’t let things go easily. Kind of like me.
This episode started off much stronger than it ended, and that’s okay. I feel like each episode of the show is entirely connected to the one before that are cut up because we can’t watch a 20-hour episode (IMAGINE?). As noted, the first 20 minutes of this episode were how you would expect a typical episode of Homeland to end (is there even a typical episode format for this show?), which made the pacing feel odd. Sometimes Homeland can feel like those sidewalks in the middle of the airport; sometimes the episode is moving faster than everything else then you have to readjust to the normalcy once it slows down.
How’s our Dana doing? Well, she’s surviving, like most teenagers. The more I see little Dana Brody go through life, the more I think she’s one of the better written teenagers currently on TV. The situations she’s experiencing are fantastical and extreme, of course, but Morgan Saylor’s acting elevates these storylines to a level of relateability they really shouldn’t rise to. Dana and The Son Of The Vice President Of The United States ran over someone and that storyline made most of our eyes roll, of course, “they’re just giving her something to do” said all of us. But, it’s now turned into this fascinating deconstruction of how a person (young or old) handles a situation (bad or good). The scene where she’s in the car on the way to school and she, somewhat in a daze, thanks her father I found completely realistic. Again, we’ve all been there – give or take a hit and run. Now, where Dana Brody goes from here is even more exciting.
The only other thing I found intriguing during this episode was Carrie. Though she faltered a few times through out the episode, I haven’t seen her so confident in what she was doing or what she believed she was doing, in quite some time. The scene where she got into the car spoke so much of this newfound confidence. And I find that Carrie is what makes everyone around her (Brody and etc…) much more interesting.
And, as always, I have no idea how this season is going to end or where it’s going.