Homeland - Season 3 - Episode 11
Penultimate episode, and noticing my leg was nervously bouncing constantly along with my heart racing, good god does it show. This really is film-quality television in that, through either massive funding or brilliant resourcefulness, they've crafted a presentation so absorbing that I literally feel like I'm in a movie theater, so removed from the home setting I watch the show in, and thrown into its world of espionage and constantly shifting character ambiguities.
When a show makes you wonder which way a character is going to lean from the first episode of the first season and still has you at that exact same level eleven episodes into the third season, you've got some masterful storytelling. It's strange, because the way it's done, the make sure the case for a character going one way or another isn't lopsided nor loaded, but even in chance due to either how much history they've built up with a character or lack thereof, creating uncertainty of how they will proceed with the circumstances given to them-- and it's never easy, and the path is never clear, no matter how bold or brilliant a plan may be.
Truly one of the great espionage stories put to the screen, large or small-- the lines are blurred here, along with many others.
