After the twisty revelation from last week’s Homeland[1] , Alex Gansis revealed that the season is basically being told in three parts of four episodes apiece. Last week concluded the first part, so we could expect that this first episode in Act II, “The Yoga Play,[2] ” would be a slower-paced, table-setting episode, and for the most part, that’s exactly what we got. Table setting, and a lot of gut punches for poor Saul, who had his world crash around him this week.
The Yoga Play — When someone says, “The Yoga Play,” you expect a more interesting caper than what transpired last night. You mean, the Yoga Play just means go to Yoga class, have someone be your double, and sneak out the back? That’s it?? That was kind of anti-climactic. Anyway, the point of the Yoga Play was to sneak off and see Agent Hall, the FBI agent keeping tabs on Nicholas Brody, because Jessica came to Carrie and begged her to help find Dana, and Carrie thought Agent Hall would be the appropriate person to harangue. To be honest, that was kind of a weird call. What was Jessica’s thought process there. “Hmmm. My daughter is missing, and the cops aren’t being much help. Hmmm. Why don’t I ask my terrorist husband’s former mistress, who has been disgraced by the CIA and locked away in a mental institution. PERFECT!”
Anyway, it worked. Carrie berated Agent Hall into giving a damn by reminding Agent Hall that not all joy rides end happily ever after, see, e.g. Romeo and Juliet.
The whole gambit, however, ended up being pretty useless, because Agent Hall didn’t factor into tracking down Dana, so all it did was to put Carrie’s operation in danger, which was also kind of a weird call. “Hmmmm. My lover’s daughter went joyriding with a psychopath. What should I do? Oh, I know! I’ll endanger a huge operation that required that I get called out during a Congressional hearing and spend some time in a mental institution, all so we could lure out a terrorist who financed the bombing of the CIA. Why not endanger that by sneaking away to berate an FBI agent into tracking down a 16 year old brat? PERFECT! ”
The motivations in this show don’t always make sense. Did it endanger the operation? We’ll circle back around to that below.
Dana, Dana, Dana — Once again, entirely too much of this week’s episode centered around Dana, who I understand uses Internet comments to fuel her character’s emotional breakdowns. The one good thing about the Dana plotline, however, is that it shows that Dana is not the most annoying character on the show. That title belongs to Leo, her boyfriend, who has barely changed from his arc on Dexter. He’s the same sniveling doucherat. Dana finally came to this realization on her own when, while picking out corn nuts in a convenience store, she overheard a news report reveal that Leo had been committed because he failed to follow through on his suicide pact with his brother. That’s gotta be awkward, too. You’re sitting there with a lap full of your brother’s brains, and you’re like, “You know what? This just doesn’t feel right. I think I’ll go microwave a frozen pizza now.”
After confronting Leo about it, he sniveled through a few lies, and may or may not have come clean (who cares?) before Dana told him to go screw, and turned herself in to a police officer.
Did she get arrested for stealing her Mom’s car, and costing law enforcement considerable time and money in having to track her down? Was she re-institutionalized? No, don’t be silly. The cop just dropped her off at home, and she walked back into her room and had a nice cry. Here she is thinking about the the “Dana is the Worst” comments on Twitter.
Oh, Dana. Why do you have to be so worthless? Also, what was the point of that entire subplot? If Leo doesn’t come back and try to kill her, then it was all for nothing!
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