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EPISODE
SEASON
Homeland - Season 5 Episode 08: All About Allison
A CIA operation officer, Carrie Mathison, who after making an illegal mission in Iraq, has been transferred to the section of facing terrorists, where she does his best, in order to stop a terrorist, as she has convinced that one prisoner has turned by Al Qaeda to make a horrible attack, the thing that makes her struggle.
14 January 1975, Cairo, Egypt
16 May 1972, USA
10 October 1975, San Angelo, Texas, USA
6 November 1987, Berlin, Germany
18 October 1957, Medford, Oregon, USA
7 January 1960, Newark, New Jersey, USA
26 March 1964, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
17 September 1963, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
November 23, 2015
It's the sort of connection that only Carrie could have made, and Danes plays the discovery with a measure of both refocused relief (at finally knowing her foe) and devastating disappointment (at who that enemy is).
November 23, 2015
If "Allison" isn't Homeland's dullest episode to date, it's certainly close.
November 23, 2015
This reveal did what all great flashback reveals do: made the audience reconsider some of the assumptions they had about a presumably villainous or treacherous character.
November 23, 2015
This was the episode we'd been waiting for - at least, those of us invested in Allison's history - and it delivered.
November 23, 2015
At least Carrie has finally figured it out, perhaps a little bit later than would have been optimal, but she got away with her life. So huzzah!
November 23, 2015
It's not so much that the moment when everything clicked for our heroine was exciting. It was more a relief.
November 23, 2015
Miranda Otto was fantastic in the episode, letting her cool exterior melt just enough for us to get a glimpse inside.
November 23, 2015
Miranda Otto's take on Allison was as strong as always and the revelations about how she wound up where she is today were worth the wait.
November 23, 2015
Flashback sequences can be clunky, but I think that they worked well here, both in explaining how Allison came to be the person that she is, and in showing us some pre-Brody Carrie.
November 23, 2015
"All About Allison" spends most of its time walking back those changes and most of the rest reviewing information that was laid out with a lot more finesse in previous episodes.
