As promised, Monday’s episode featured the return of Jeremiah, but the Danvers family’s. 6.10 The Flag House. There was a moment midway through the latest episode of Homeland where the president-elect, the soon-to-be most powerful person on the planet.

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Check out last week’s Nashville recap. Nashville’s Rayna Jaymes was such a force of nature, it takes not one, not two but a whole recording booth full of people to replace her. The Exes line up a tour. Maddie has a taste of what her career might be like.

And Scarlett ends the hour with quite the bombshell: She’s pregnant (!). And that’s only half of it, so prepare to clutch your Minnie Pearls. Read on for the episode’s highlights. RELATEDNashville Adds The O. C. Deacon’s not quite as checked- out as he was in the previous episode; he balks when Scarlett hesitates to agree to a tour, gruffly- yet- tacitly suggesting that he doesn’t need her to stick around to mother him and the girls. And he’s irate when Zach suggests that they need to release Rayna’s final album pronto — even Bucky’s reasoning that they need cash, and fast, to pay for Wheelin’ Dealin’ Records, as well as the easy- out clause means Zach and his money could walk any day, doesn’t move Deke one inch. Luckily, Rayna recorded her scratch vocals for all of the songs before she died.

So all that’s left is for Deacon to lay down his vocals, then for some production magic to whip the whole thing into sellable shape. And that’ll happen?

Couldn’t he just float Highway 6. RELATED Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on Big Bang, Bates, Bones, Nashville, Walking Dead, Flash, Once, Grimm and More. JU STEPS IN . And when Juliette happens to be around as Scarlett hangs up on “one of the Jimmys” — Fallon? Watch Love Finds You In Valentine Vioz there. The world may never know! Sorry, I just get really excited about character growth.

After talking it over with Deacon, Maddie decides that she will do a few talk shows, so she and Juliette fly to the Big Apple. First up is The Daily Show, where host Trevor Noah is incredibly nice to a very uncomfortable Maddie. Nashville apparently has finally given up on trying to CGI- back the years and/or shoot Connie Britton and Charles Esten through gauze/scrim/trees or whatever they did the last time we were supposed to be seeing Deke and Rayna in their younger years. This time, different actors play the pair in 1. Then he cues up the behind- the- scenes footage that Zach’s camera guy shot for the making- of- the- duets- album video. It’s all too much for the cowboy, who has a full- body breakdown and winds up crouching and sobbing in the corner of the room.

I feel for you, Deacon, I really do, but you’ll forgive me for a sec if I’m distracted by the shots of you and Rayna going at it like teenagers against the bowling alley wall a few episodes back. No, it does not.)STRIKING WHILE THE IRON IS HOT (SAD, BUT HOT)  .

Unfortunately, that means that she speaks without thinking, which leads her to glibly blurt that “I’m not all like, . She’s horrified to see that entertainment blogs are running with the “thanks, Mom,” quote, and she cries to Scarlett on the phone the next morning that she wants to come home. Scarlett very quickly says that her cousin shouldn’t care what Juliette thinks, because “Look at her life, look at some of the choices she’s made.” Oh, I’m sorry, Scarlett, you put on a strand of pearls and suddenly you’re the Queen of Perfect Decision- Making? Because I’m standing here with Damien and Liam and Caleb, and they’re all making faces similar to the one you shot at Juliette earlier in the episode.

So Juliette cancels the Today appearance, but once they’re back in Nashville, she makes it clear “that I am disappointed by your lack of professionalism in New York,” adding that if the teen doesn’t take advantage of the opportunity afforded her by Rayna’s death, “you will regret it for the rest of your life.” And when Scarlett vehemently objects, Ju wheels on her, asking, “How would you know? Just because you’re afraid of success?” OUCH. Kinda TRUE. They eventually all make nice, and Juliette goes a step farther by offering to guide Maddie’s career, because “I want to take you all the way to the top.” Ooh, I like where this is going!

So Avery organizes everyone — Gunnar, Scarlett, Juliette, Will and the girls — and assembles them all in Rayna’s home studio. When Deacon finds them there, they reveal that they’re going to help him finish the album by singing some of the tracks with Rayna, “in a way she would’ve loved,” Avery says gently. It’s a feel- good way to end the episode, and seeing/hearing everyone pitch in finally gets Deacon to the point where he can record some vocals of his own. A casual listening party at Highway 6. Zach and Bucky are pleased with the result, which is great and all? Especially if they had any indication that the original concept was an entire album of Rayna and Deacon duets? In short: Is this album going to sell?

But don’t ponder that too deeply, because we’ve got bigger problems in the immediate future. After everyone leaves Rayna’s record company in a good mood, Scarlett hangs back to tell Gunnar that she will go on tour with him. But there’s one thing: “I’m pregnant.” And nope, she doesn’t know whether he or video director Damien is the father. See ya in a few months, y’all! Now it’s your turn. What did you think of the midseason finale? Sound off in the comments!

Homeland season 6 episode 1. The Flag House. This review contains spoilers. The Flag House. There was a moment midway through the latest episode of Homeland where the president- elect, the soon- to- be most powerful person on the planet, paid an unannounced visit to Carrie Mathison’s brownstone.

With all the subtlety of “Hail to the Chief,” Elizabeth Keane acts like a concerned, mentoring figure to Carrie while having her secret service agents turn the screws of pressure simply by turning an about- face towards the door. And the fact that Carrie both crumbles by all but confirming that Dar Adal got to her by threatening her access to Franny? Momentarily during this episode, Saul seemed destined for the wind (at least until season seven), and Carrie was not going to do anything to endanger the possibility of getting Franny back. And for the first time in a long while, I really wasn’t quite sure where Homeland was headed as the pieces continued to fall in a space absent from any intended or designated place. I didn’t realize how much I’ve missed this kind of uneven footing in a Homeland season, the kind where my uneasiness is actually the intended effect by the writers, as opposed to coming from a bout of scepticism. I’m now all in for the final two episodes of the season, and it’s been a long time since I’ve felt that way about the prospect of a Homeland finale.

And as much as I enjoy watching F. Murray Abraham’s Dar Adal, let’s please take that bastard down. The most intriguing aspect of the hour was how Carrie and Saul so easily crumpled to Adal (or the system) getting the upper- hand over both of them. Carrie, ready and eager to push Saul in front of that bus as long as it gets Dar too, has her entire world rocked when she connected dots that should’ve been obvious a while ago: Her Child Protection Services issues are implicitly linked to her spy game ones. On the ride to her deposition, the driver proves too chatty by half to be anything less than a malevolent force in terms of television or movie plotting.

And sure enough, he makes a threat about Carrie’s proposed visit to Franny that day, implying if she gives Keane the axe to wield across Adal’s head, Carrie will lose access to Franny. Indefinitely. The tension gave Claire Danes her second best moment of the season (right after being forced to talk about Brody’s fate in last week’s opening). Obviously rattled, she quickly understands that Keane’s administration didn’t send the threatening car, nor did the Do.

J, and as the lawyers’ camera goes on for her to be sworn in, she goes from determined to confused, to beaten in about the span of fifteen seconds. And then she really does throw in the towel, no matter how many midday visits/shows of force from incoming commander- in- chiefs she might experience.

We’ve never seen Carrie so beaten, even when season one ended with her accepting she was just “crazy,” and Brody was an A- OK bloke. Yet, her relationship with Franny is a very convincing pressure point; and that is what spies always do best—they find that sweet spot and squeeze. Saul’s desire to go to ground and forever live in Greece under an assumed identity was somewhat of a surprise, however.

I can believe he’d be furious to have his reputation and legacy ruined due to the political machinations between Keane and Adal, but it will still be blighted if he runs. In fact, more so, since he looks like a corrupt sleaze in the press by vanishing.

Unexpectedly, what brings him back to his senses is a chat with his ex- wife. As I suspect is the case for many viewers, I couldn’t care less about Saul’s failed marriage, but at least in this case, Saul’s inability to see he’s way more into his ex than she is into him comes crashing back: why does he really care what people say? I’d take it a step farther. Why does he care if he’s pardoned or living in self- imposed exile? Either way, his legacy is destroyed. At least this way, he can take some pleasure in throwing Adal back under the bus. It leads Saul to having a “back to Carrie” moment, because he breaks into her house ridiculously easily.

He also finds her room for secret obsessions. In all honesty, it’s pretty impressive she is keeping her likely high six to low seven- figure job to afford this place since she seems to spend all her time since the Sekou fiasco in her home connecting yarns of string to newspaper clippings on walls, or meeting off- the- book with Keane. Nevertheless, I can’t help but take vicarious enjoyment out of Saul’s satisfaction at the sight of knowing his prot. She’s every bit the paranoid spook he taught her to be, and to him this is as gratifying as any traditional father learning his daughter still roots for his old alma mater. It also comes with a wonderful and terrible message from Max: proof- positive that Dar Adal is working with the far- right sock puppet operation. This may also be the last message Carrie ever gets from the undervalued techie.

Indeed, as is not exactly shocking, the role of this propaganda arm of Adal is taking on insidious implications in the final stretch of season six. Perhaps more than even Homeland showrunners could have known when they broke down the season, what once appeared to be just an obnoxious stand- in for Fox News- meets- Info Wars has turned into something much more messed up.

Adal is building his own fake news apparatus to misinform and brainwash the American populace as thoroughly as these offshore and Russian backed cyber divisions attempt to undermine their own citizens—and most especially Western democracies by funneling lies, innuendo, and fake news into supposedly intermural, national conversations. With that said, I am not so sure how effective these elements really are without, say, hackers intent on stealing personal emails from politicians and giving them to Wiki.

Leaks at the most opportune times. Fake news is useful during an election, but I’m not so sure how great it is at discrediting a newly minted president. Nothing about internet comment trolls or even misleading reports about presidents’ dead sons is enough to force a PEOTUS to resign. We don’t need propaganda, from the CIA or foreign governments, to know that mudslinging like this occurs in modern politics. Perhaps, though, we should be concerned when Keane says in reaction to the footage of her late son running, supposedly for his life, that “no one should be able to see this” that she will overstep her constitutional limits and ignore the First Amendment in going after Adal. But for the immediacy, however, Max is in supreme trouble since when Conlin got caught spying on this organisation, he ended up with a bullet in his head. Hopefully, Max erased that video as soon as he sent it to Carrie.

If he didn’t, I fear that he will not be making another even- season reemergence in the show’s eighth year. But the other “retired” spy to make dangerous progress this night is of course Peter Quinn. Apparently, the man who killed Astrid and framed/murdered Sekou has been operating out of the same safe house Peter Quinn used during the beginning of his career as an assassin- in- training. This kind of coincidence makes Adal and his newest muscle seem uncharacteristically sloppy, especially since this moron knows Quinn is after him and he’s already paranoid that Dar Adal called him on an unsecure phone line. Quinn gets a few moments that allow him, and his audience, to recall his past life. He apparently roamed these parts of the greater Washington area under the alias of “Johnny” and flirted (or more) with a local waitress who loved men in uniform.

It reinserts the pain of Quinn’s loss when we see a new character with fresh eyes realise PTSD and worse has ruined the strapping all- American, loyal terrier who used to reside behind those eyes. Still, most of this feels like padding until we get to the point at the end of the hour. Quinn has finally found his target, the man who murdered Astrid, and he invites Carrie to seemingly watch him pull the trigger.