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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn on your closed-circuit monitor and watch last night’s Homeland. “He systematically pulled you apart, Brody. Piece by piece, until there was nothing left but pain. And then he relieved the pain and he put you back together again as someone else.” Roll over, Brody, I could use some room on that interrogation-room floor. Also, Carrie? I’ll take one of those big-ass glasses of wine. “Q&A” was an audacious and exhausting hour of television. Just as Abu Nazir did, it took Brody apart: methodically, brutally, yet tenderly pried off each layer of the lies that constituted his being, revealing the angry, spent, used man underneath. Like Nazir, Carrie and the CIA need to break Brody down to remake him. In the process—in five quick episodes of the second season—Homeland has made itself into potentially quite a different, and exciting, series. To say that the questioning between Brody and Carrie was an emotionally affecting piece of acting almost goes without saying at this point. What I was especially impressed with, though, is what remarkable physical performances both Damian Lewis and Claire Danes turned in. For his part, you can see the effort it takes to maintain his facade under questioning—even before he is stabbed through the hand in an effectively shocking moment—and his exhaustion after being stripped bare of his cover. By the time he gets up, panting and drained, from the interrogation table only to drop to the floor, he looks like the same beaten, broken soldier-prisoner that he was in his flashbacks to 2003. Which, for Brody, may be a step forward at this point. As for Danes, she has the less showy part here, but it’s impressively complicated. She demonstrates Carrie in control (her shutting off the cameras shows both sympathy and power), leading Brody through his cover story, taking it apart and then bringing down the hammer—Dana—before walking him to a place where it’s OK for him to confess, telling him that she knows he’s a good man. At the
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Posted: October 29th, 2012
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