Salon.com > Sgt. Brody http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Homeland”: Pledging allegiance http://www.salon.com/2012/10/01/homeland_pledging_allegiance/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/01/homeland_pledging_allegiance/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 04:01:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13026414 The last we saw of Carrie in season one, she was rewinding memories in her mind of the time she spent with Brody, desperately trying to recall the name “Issa” before pulses of electricity were applied to her temples — an attempt for Carrie to lighten her burden. Our final image of her as the season finale wrapped: Carrie’s body, convulsing from the ECT. We are left with the exquisite torment of knowing she isn’t crazy at all, that the dangers she foretold are real not imagined, that she loves a man who seemingly doesn’t love her back, and that she is alone with all these burdens.

The second season opens with Carrie convalescing at home, under the care of her shrink sister Maggie, living with her father, and teaching ESL classes to Middle Eastern students to keep busy. She is desperately trying to suppress the pangs of yearning for her former life — the one she loved even though it drove her mad, even though she was betrayed. But she is still recovering from her breakdown, vulnerable: It won’t take much to lure her back in. And indeed she will be tempted.

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