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Set two years after the previous season. Now, estranged from the CIA and living a self-imposed exile in Berlin, Carrie struggles to overcome her past while working at a private security firm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.