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EPISODE
SEASON
Homeland - Season 5 Episode 12: A False Glimmer
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
December 21, 2015
Perhaps this, too, is nothing more than a false glimmer... but damned if there isn't somehow still hope in the poetry of the episode's haunting fade to black.
December 21, 2015
The attack is thwarted in minutes, which is not quite what I was anticipating considering how intense the build-up was, but "Glimmer" has quite a bit of ground to cover and only so much time in which to cover it.
December 21, 2015
For the second consecutive year, the last episode of the season felt anti-climactic.
December 21, 2015
Homeland deftly avoids feeling too repetitive by shifting the dynamic to Carrie's emotional state, which goes on quite a roller-coaster ride in this hour.
December 21, 2015
Well, that was certainly anticlimactic.
December 21, 2015
I'm not entirely sold on Quinn's most relevant purpose being a "light [...] steering [Carrie] clear of the rocks," but I am utterly fascinated by how Quinn will drive the story going forward.
December 21, 2015
I loved that final moment, because while so many shows this year have ended episodes or entire seasons with ambiguous deaths solely for shock value, this one felt different.
December 21, 2015
I've always felt like Homeland hasn't quite done the necessary legwork in-text to represent the depth of Carrie and Quinn's potential romantic entanglement, but "A False Glimmer" used the patchwork nature of the pairing to its advantage.
December 22, 2015
Hopefully, next season will be the one in which the magic happens again. If not, well, maybe Carrie's not the only one who should retire.
December 21, 2015
So that's where all the character stuff was hiding!
