![]() Saul, who I might remind you is the Acting Director of the CIA now, berates Fara for failing to come up with evidence for the Iran connection with a tirade that wouldn’t seem out of place if your racist uncle was shouting it from across the Thanksgiving table: “You wearing that thing on your head is one big fuck-you to the people that would have been your coworkers if they hadn’t perished in a blast right out there.” Where the hell did the calm, cosmopolitan, conciliatory Saul go, and who left this mouthbreather in charge? ![]() What are they, rubes? Look, maybe I’m giving the CIA too much credit here, but I’d like to think that people who get paid to collect and analyze intelligence data have seen Muslim women before, and aren’t consumed with fear and rage at the sight of them. As she walks into the building wearing a headscarf, CIA employees stare at her like she’s not a Muslim but a Martian the only way Saul and Quinn’s gawking could have been less subtle is if they’d done comical spit-takes. The trouble begins with the introduction of Fara, a rookie analyst of Persian descent who’s brought in to uncover and decipher financial transactions between the banker Peter Quinn killed last week and entities linked to alleged Iranian mastermind Majid Javadi. The 12 Best Moments From ‘Homeland”s Bad Season Two After a promising premiere that gave us a relatively restrained and relaxed hour in the company of its most compelling characters, Homeland yanked the needle off the record, stranding Carrie, Saul and company in an alternately confounding and repetitive episode.
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