HOMELAND (Ten, Monday) without Brody, (the main character who was hanged in an Iranian street in the last series), was meant to be as tense and exciting as it was in the former series.
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It's not; it's getting to be ridiculous.
The story so far is that bi-polar CIA agent Carrie Matheson (Claire Danes) has given birth to Brody's child, a daughter, who is being looked after by her sister while she takes the job of CIA chief in Istanbul.
The former chief may or may not have been working with the Taliban, but he was assassinated in the street.
Carrie sets up a sting to catch the leader of the Taliban by telling his young medical student nephew that she is a British journalist and they will reward him with an appointment to a British hospital after he tells them his story (his family were killed in a US air strike on a family wedding and his uncle was thought to be one of the victims).
Carrie also seduces the young man and he falls in love with her.
Meanwhile, back at the embassy, the ambassador’s husband who has been selling secrets to the Taliban is back at work again and this time he has gone into Carrie's quarters and substituted something for her regular pills.
The young medical student makes his way to the border to get to England and on the way meets his uncle who we find has kidnapped former CIA director Saul (Mandy Patinkin).
The uncle shoots the lad dead and Saul and the Taliban chief go racing off.
How do we know all this?
Well, through drones (or something like), those at the Istanbul office were able to track the medical student across Pakistan to the meeting place with the uncle and good close-ups of Saul and the death of the boy.
Later they are able to film Saul and his captor entering the Taliban's chief home village and being greeted by his family.
Extraordinary as these feats of surveillance were, no-one has any closed circuit material in the embassy so the ambassador's husband can spy at will.
Carrie takes the wrong pills for her bi-polar and behaves very peculiarly indeed.
The last time we see her is in the arms of someone she thinks is Brody, but is actually the Pakistani equivalent of her position.
Damian Lewis, who played Brody, makes a guest appearance for this scene.
What I want to know is that if the YUS surveillance of the world is as good as it is shown in Homeland and the NCIS series, why don't we know what happened to MH14 and where MH17 is?
