![]() Green's murder in 'Downton Abbey' Season 5 Episode 8. Four years after the fourth season of Arrested Development premiered on Netflix, kicking off conversations about a fifth season, a follow-up season has been. My husband stopped watching 3rd season and I’m trying to get him back into it. I really feel this season is. Homeland Recap: Season 6 Episode 9 – Sock Puppets“Homeland” delivered its strongest episode of season six to date last week with the paranoia- fueled romp “Alt. Truth.” This week’s installment, “Sock Puppets,” falls on the other end of the quality spectrum thanks to plot developments that are too hokey to be believed. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not seen the March 1. Homeland.”Claire Danes’ performance in the opening sequence is the best thing that “Sock Puppets,” written by Chip Johannessen and Evan Wright and directed by Dan Attias, has to offer. Danes’ Carrie Mathison is meeting with a psychiatrist- type, an evaluation that is necessary before she can schedule a supervised visit with her daughter, Franny, who was taken away by a New York City child welfare agency a few episodes back. The scene opens as if it’s an interrogation room, with Carrie shot from the shoulders up against a dismal- gray background. Eventually the camera pulls back and we see her sitting in a classic shrink- office setting, talking to a man with a salt- and- pepper beard about her “intense” relationships with both Franny’s father and Peter Quinn. It’s a remarkably candid moment for Carrie, especially with a stranger. She’s open about the fact that at first Franny’s red hair was a painful reminder that her daughter’s father, Nicholas Brody, is gone in part because Carrie pushed him into a doomed mission in Iran. It’s impossible to watch that scene and not think of the shocking moment from season four when Carrie was bathing infant Franny. After this, sad to say the episode goes downhill. Fast. Dar Adal pulls a double- cross on the Iranian major- general Majid Javadi who pulled a double- cross on Carrie and Saul last week, making them look like fools in front of President- elect Keane. Javadi thinks Adal is going to help him get a wad of cash and safe passage out of the United States so he can get lost somewhere now that he’s been outed in his native land as a double- agent. But Adal’s real plan is to deliver Javadi to his friends in Mossad who are in league with Adal’s effort to convince Keane that Iran is cheating on the nuclear agreement. We’re expected to believe that as Javadi is being subdued by Mossad agents in his hotel suite, he has the time to take out his phone, ring up Carrie and shout about how he “should have stuck with Carrie and Saul” while the Mossad dudes stuff him in a laundry bin. Carrie quickly rings up Saul, who has the call tracked. Carrie and Saul high- tail it to Javadi’s hotel suite, where they miraculously find Javadi’s phone at the bottom of the laundry bin. The phone conveniently has more video evidence that Iran is not cheating on the deal and that Mossad and the CIA are in on the plot to make it look like Iran is violating the agreement. Somehow, the Mossad agents forgot to take Javadi’s phone when they were scooping up their prey. Going from bad to worse, we suddenly cut to Carrie and Saul standing stern- faced in front of Keane, playing the video evidence for the President- elect. This is the same woman who declared last week that she “never should have listened” to Carrie after Javadi pulled a fast one and lied about Iran’s nefarious parallel program in North Korea when Carrie and Saul thought he was going to tell her just the opposite. Keane had just met with Adal to offer a fist- bump and a mea culpa for her doubts about the CIA and Iran’s ambition. She tells Adal the whole story of the Carrie- Saul- Javadi farce — and Adal acts like it’s the first he’s heard of it. ![]() The Emmy Award-winning comedy series ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT revolves around MICHAEL BLUTH (Jason Bateman), the "normal" one in a family of crazies, who is forced to. Keane even invites him to suggest candidates for a tough- on- defense Secretary of State candidate. After all this, Keane barely blinks and now embraces Carrie and Saul’s version of events. They also tell her about the Sekou bombing theory, that the delivery van bomb was planted to stir up renewed fears of terrorism to combat her agenda to toning down the post- 9/1. Arrested Development (TV Series 2003–) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. While Arrested Development was on the air in the early 2000s, it had a hard time finding regular viewers because the series' comedy was so layered. It wasn’t until. Jason Bateman. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images. Never Nudes, unite! According to its star Jason Bateman, Arrested Development is about to return to Netflix for a. ![]() Reversing course again, Keane declares Adal to be “an obsequious little s—” and vows to shut down his extracurricular adventures. Meanwhile, Quinn’s mental state has deteriorated even further after last week’s shootout at the upstate New York cabin where he was stashed by Adal. We find him sitting next to dead Astrid, her body propped up on the couch with a blanket over her as if she’s taking a nap. He waits until the local cops are literally busting through the door to hobble his way out to the car to get away. But not before dabbing his finger in Astrid’s bloody chest and wiping it on his lip. He heads back into the big city on a mission to confront Adal. When Quinn finds him, Adal sidesteps a bullet in his face by declaring his “love” for his protege. He gets pistol- whipped instead, and then — thanks to an ill- conceived phone call to Burly Knit Cap guy who murdered Astrid — Quinn lurches off to find him. Finally, Max the computer genius continues his support of Carrie and Saul’s rogue mission by applying for a job at the “black box” data processing center where the dearly departed FBI Agent Ray Conlin visited before meeting his untimely death several episodes ago. Who comes out to grill Max on his resume and its gaps but the Diet Coke- swilling Brett O’Keefe, the conservative firebrand who prepped a “fake news” assault on President- elect Keane’s son that still has yet to surface. It turns out the vague menace at the center is a fake news farm — a roomful of partisan Internet trolls clicking away at keyboards to maintain hundreds of fake online personas, aka “sock puppets,” to push a radical- right political agenda. Max has all the keystroke skills to help them move the goods. It’s a creepy place full of stone- faced millennials and a Nurse Ratched- type overseer. The second- best scene of this episode is some vicious banter between Saul and Carrie on a park bench. Keane and her incoming head of the Justice Department have decided that the only way to bring Adal down is not by pursuing the mounting evidence of his treasonous campaign regarding Iran but for failure to disclose the big security breach from last season that hit the CIA’s Berlin station. Of course, that would mean throwing career shade on Saul and his blindspot last season with Allison Carr (Miranda Otto), who turned out to be a Russian double agent. Carrie has a Big Dilemma to tackle in the remaining three episodes of this season.“Maybe you shouldn’t have been f—–g a Russian mole,” Carrie snaps as Saul laments the irreparable damage to his career if she goes on the record about Berlin. Nicholas Brody sure does cast a long shadow on this show. In the midst of their battling, Carrie gets the news that she can finally see Franny the following day at 3 p. It wouldn’t be “Homeland” if some big, scary national security emergency doesn’t come up in the next 2. Carrie from making this meeting. It will surely be a test of whether Carrie heeded the advice from the psychiatrist about how to think about her work- life balance. As any parent who’s ever rescheduled their lives, moved heaven and earth, and fought traffic with a stick to make it in time for the school concert (or play or game or science fair or honors presentation) knows all too well, sometimes the kid “has to come first.”Weak episodes of great shows are glaring in their shortcomings because the bar is so high. But nobody bats a thousand. Undoubtedly, “Homeland” will return to form by the time the curtain falls on season six. The Trump White House is pretty much just Arrested Development season 5. Club. Back when it first aired in 2. Arrested Development’s Bluth familywas pretty clearly intended as a satire of the Bush family, what with its privileged doofus of an older son and shady business ties to the Middle East. But the nice thing about making a show about entitled, rich white assholes is that there’ll always be new ones coming down the line to make fun of. So it’s not wholly surprising to read through this Twitter thread from Politico author Dan Diamond explaining the whole Trump White House in terms of the beloved Mitch Hurwitz sitcom: It’s not actually clear exactly which failed Trump project Diamond—who has continued to draw the parallels with furthertweets—is specifically (not) calling out here; the obvious one, given all the building metaphors is The Great, Great Wall Of America. But given what just happened to the Republican health plan and Trump’s promises to repeal Obamacare, we’re kind of spoiled for choices when it comes to huge mistakes to draw attention to. Green’s murder took a sharp turn down WTF Avenue on Sunday’s Downton Abbey as a Bates was unexpectedly placed behind bars — but not the one you might have expected. Is it possible? Could Anna really have pushed Mr. Green to his death? The witness to his murder certainly didn’t hesitate to pick her out of the line- up, but I remain unconvinced. Turning Anna into a killer seems like a shark over which even Downton wouldn’t dare to jump. Still, things aren’t looking too great for her as we head into next week’s season finale. They’ll eat her alive in jail. UNHOLY MATRIMONY . Not only did Rose’s mother frame Atticus by sending a prostitute to his room, but when that scheme blew up in her face, she announced her intentions to divorce Shrimpy, knowing full well that the D- word would force Atticus’ father’s hand. And her Plan B might have worked, had it not been for the intrusion of Atticus’ mother, who threatened to give her husband a real scandal should he decide to stop the wedding. I’m #Team. Shrimpy for life. PLUS NONE . The worst part? With Tom (potentially) leaving for Boston — something neither Mary nor I am looking forward to in any way — she might have to go solo! That’s, like, Edith- level depressing right there. At least she got that nice pep talk from Carson: “He wasn’t good enough for you, my lady. Not by half.” (I’m not sure I agree, but whatever.)INDECENT PROPOSAL . The Dowager Countess got a real sexy proposition from her princely ex- boyfriend, who said he wants to “spend my final years” with her “as a friend. He didn’t seem as huffy about it as I expected him to be, but it’s possible that Bricker- gate helped him realize he shouldn’t keep rushing to judgment. I think our angry little man might actually be growing up. Odds and Ends: * A new footman named Andy was introduced. I thought Thomas was going to make a move, but then he didn’t. Don’t judge me; he’s like a real- life Mr. Bean.* That whole subplot about Mrs. Patmore and the memorial (aka the perfect opportunities for bathroom breaks) also reached its conclusion this week. Lords and ladies, do you think Anna killed Mr. Should the D. C. And was I crazy for expecting something to happen between Thomas and Andy? Drop all of your thoughts and theories in the comments section below.
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