The dynamics of Homeland Season 6 change in an instant.
And we’re better for it.
Season 6 Episode 4
Lets just sayHomelandisnt afraid to still shake things up once in a while.
So it was in A Flash of Light, which like its title, changes everything in an instant.
The suddenly shifting dynamics offer what is perhaps the most engaging hour of the past several seasons.
Certainly the best weve thus far had in season 4.
Theres been another terror attack in the heart of Manhattan, and we all know this wont end well.
The best of it involved Saul Berenson going home, as it were, to Israel.
Whats more striking than Saul never visiting his sister in 12 years?
The not-so-shocking revelation that doing so was merely an act of cover.
But it did make sense he was meetingsomeone.
Yet, it was a nice surprise that that someone was Javadi.
Unbelievable, the American mutters.
These are sequences where Mandy Patinkin is at his best.
Meanwhile, Carrie was better utilized here as her relationship with President-elect Keane came to its inevitable head.
Carrie is right to put her foot down.
Keane isnt going to spend political capital saving a snitch whod become the bane of the intelligence community.
Then again, Dar likely hurt his chances by showing up at the elementary school of Carries child.
If anything, I suspect hell be the one to push her to singing.
His threats are already clear.
Noticing Carries daughter, Dar smile, Pretty child, striking hair.
After all this time, the ghost of Nicholas Brody might rear itself again in the ugliest way.
This could go sideways real quick.
The last time that happened in the real world, Americans lost their mindsa fact Carrie explains to Sekou.
So the question remains, who placed the bomb that will undoubtedly turn Sekou into the face of infamy?
Whether Dar Adal himself had something to do with itthus further discrediting Keanes potential golden-haired canaryI am not sure.
First step is getting the citizenry scared.
Instead, we have an America where all Muslims, and especially refugees, are being conflated with terrorists.
Of course, the show is only a fiction.
Rating:
4 out of 5
