Take for example the most recent entry (November 11th) where Broady’s brooding teenage daughter “play acts” at the angst she is facing in not coming clean about her and her boyfriend’s joyride resulting in the death of a pedestrian where everyone involved ends up handling it as if it were a national emergency. This is a supplemental storyline that is meaningless to the overarching “impending” attack on the U.S. (which is only substantiated in retrospect..eg: the gratutious ambush in the shop in Gettysburgh to extract the C2 explosives – ‘ah, now I see there IS going to be an attack…huh, where did that stuff come from? was it built into the wall? brought in?)

The supporting dialogue to the side stroy of the car accident is played out with flat and “expository” dialooue with the VP’s wife, Broady’s wife and – then AGAIN – with Braody and the VP…all of which can be summed up with “we’ll take care of it” (whew, end of writer’s dilemma – deus ex machina to the rescue”!!).

What else do we get in this “gem” of an episode. Well there’s the terrifically exciting and contextually irrelevant meeting in the woods where Carrie calls Broady’s and essentially says “come hither and kiss me” – spoiler alert, THEY KISS. Wow, I wonder if next episode they’ll sleep together – oh wait they ALREADY DID.

And of course the coup de grace of this installment ends with Saul’s bitter disappointment over the suicide death of his terrorist operative (whom he moves to another cell by calling the AG for help – yikes!) after he discovers she and a SWAT team to the home of a muslim musician and with everyone in this elite group of anti terrorists standing around with their thumbs up their A**’s.

Can Homeland be reoriented? Hard to imagine since it seems to be taking a course charted more for network TV and mainstream America.

It could have been a great first year close, but it would require casting a host of new players for next year and the powers to be wimped out.

A jump the shark moment we’ve experienced time after time with viable new T.V. shows.

Maybe the story is being told through Carrie’s un-medicated perceptive and she’s hallucinating everything.

But definitely the revelation about Walker does put some extra spice to the plot albeit slightly premature…but heck, i will hold off till the next episode to see how the new direction plays out.

For me…so far so good.

Nobody, since the problem you found has nothing to do with numbers…