Do you know what was special about Homeland this week? There were no Brodys! "Gerontion" was about spying -- the good, bad and ugly of it. Better yet, it used Saul as the lynchpin, with some nice moments from the often overlooked Quinn. "Gerontion" is also the name of a T.S. Eliot poem about the views of an old man, something the episode focused on both generally and specifically with Saul. It was very different from what we've seen lately on the show, and that's not a bad thing. Though Homeland tried to shoehorn in some soap this week, it was mostly free of it, to what should be the delight of skeptical viewers. Hit the jump for more. "Gerontion" dealt largely with the idea of the justification of collateral damage. Quinn even says to Carrie, "I don't believe anything justifies the damage we do." This season, Quinn mistakenly killed a child, and witnessed the brutal murders of two women in front of a child. Despite the fact that Quinn has often seemed like a robot, he's started to soften, especially this year (which has provided for some well-earned character moments). Though the groundwork for his feelings of disillusionment have been laid this season, there was still something about it that felt sudden and dramatic -- far more dramatic than we've ever seen from him be before. Quinn scrubbing the blood, or the memory of it, from his arms in the shower was a great moment. Him with his head down on ...
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