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EPISODE
SEASON
Homeland - Season 5 Episode 03: Super Powers
Convinced that one prisoner has turned by Al Qaeda and prepares for making a horrible attack, Carrie Mathison, a CIA operation officer, who has done an illegal mission in Iraq, that brings terrible for her and leads her to be sent into another section of facing terrorism, has to return back to the world she left behind.
9 December 1941, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 June 1981, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
12 August 1952, Uccle, Belgium
24 January 1967, Suffolk, Virginia, USA
30 November 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 November 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
January 13, 1981 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
24 October 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
October 19, 2015
Whether you're going to stick around with the series this season will probably come down to whether you're willing to go with the writers' intent in pursuing a Carrie who's again willing to go off her meds... in hopes of winning the War on Terror.
October 19, 2015
Super Powers was a strong episode that acknowledged some past mistakes while trying to find small bits of new ground for Carrie.
October 19, 2015
As an action-thriller, this season is working for me.
October 19, 2015
Another foundational aspect of Homeland is its brisk pacing, and it definitely feels like classic Homeland to have pieces of the story fitting together long before you expect them to.
October 19, 2015
The next exploding cigar can appear at any moment, and after two episodes of context building and Edward Snowden references, "Super Powers" marks a bracing swerve into Sillyville.
October 19, 2015
Aren't you relieved to see the old Carrie back?
October 19, 2015
We learned so much and absolutely nothing during this hour, and keeping the mystery alive is worth every agonizing second that we have to wait to get answers.
October 19, 2015
Carrie's past looms large in this episode, which even more than usual for Homeland contemplates the ramifications of living a life in service of protecting the U.S.
October 19, 2015
The first two episodes of the new season established a fresh premise with a changed Carrie, but Season 5 just took a riveting turn toward vintage Homeland.
November 18, 2015
Although going cold turkey from lithium was so clearly a terrible idea from the outset, it wasn't an implausibly bad idea for her, and Jonas is so robotic already that I mostly bought his going along with it.