Bob

While I am enjoying this season, and I agree it has rebounded strongly from last season, something has been lacking for me compared to the first. It is now a perfectly good spy thriller, but it is not nearly what the show once was. What clinched the differences between this and the first season was the scene where Aayan was praying in the mountains. Seeing that made sense to what we expect of the character. It brought to mind the scene of Brody, hiding in his garage, in Muslim prayer. Brody's scene was so much more psychologically complex. I imagine him struggling with his abandonment of Christianity and his newly found comfort in Islam. Taking comfort is something that his captors/torturers forced (or at least introduced) into his life. He is doing something that is so meaningful to him, yet he has to hide it from the people he is closest to. That was amazing television.

Nov 9, 2014   |  Reply