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The last time we saw Brody was in the final episode of Season Two as Carrie delivered him to the Canadian border; now he is in Venezuela with a couple of bullets in his gut and a shaved head. Locals help him recover but their motives are unknown; they don't appear to be interested in the $10,000,000 reward but nor will they let him go. Meanwhile back in the States Carrie is still undergoing treatment; she appears to be improving but still has moments that suggest she isn't as well as she thinks.

I thought when Brody returned to the series we'd learn what he has been up to but all we learn is that he has somehow got to South America and things are going very badly for him; the more we see him there the more it seems he is in a very bad place; both physically and psychologically. Things don't seem that great for Carrie either. Apart from Brody and Carrie we don't see any of the regular cast; this leads to a claustrophobic sensation as both protagonists are incarcerated and in increasingly distressing situations. Overall I think this was a good episode but we need to get back to the main plot arc of hunting terrorists… there is only so much despair one can endure!

*Possibly contains spoilers*

Carrie and Brody are trapped in parallel hells, prisoners of people who say they are trying to protect them. Carrie is in an institution with no answers. Brody is on the last leg of his journey, holed up in Caracas, inside the ruins of David, an unfinished complex that is home to outlaws who give him no option but to stay, though the real motive remains unclear.

No conclusions are drawn out. Not yet. The episode is leading to something bigger, and darker. The episode does it hauntingly. You're never sure whom anyone really is or why they're there to begin with. The line "Why am I here?" as spoken by the unnamed doctor, asks the question in the bigger sense. By the end, Carrie and Brody are turning away from their waking life and self-medicating to escape it.

Sent 2 people for brody when hes a known terrorist

I really cant understand the severals bad reviews of the last 3 episodes here on IMDb, I'm not the biggest fan, but the criticism of this season is pretty unfair and childish.

Homeland still remains exciting as ever, the series is taking a very dark and intriguing course, we really do not know what its going to happen, Carrie and Nicholas are having the worst time of their live ever, and in this episode " Tower of David" confirms this obscure twist.

In "Tower of David" we see Carrie and Nicholas in their weakest moment ever, Carries head its about to exploit and Brody could die anytime, i was getting tired of Dana sideways history (but not bored!), finally we can concentrated in the anchor characters of the show

The rhythm of the show its changing,we may see it a little bit slow right now, but I'm pretty sure that after this episode, thousands of doses of suspense are waiting for us, we cant throw a great show to the sharks, just because they are trying to find the best for the audience and the characters.

I have been binge watching this show for the last week or two. It took about 3 episodes to really get into the show, but by half a dozen episodes I was hooked. I enjoy stories about under cover missions, government spies, top secret info etc. And this show keeps me thinking and guessing which is great. After 2 seasons I'm still very much invested in the show and the intertwining stories. Then I started season 3... Oh dear... This has become something resembling a teen drama with characters I don't care about. I am losing interest very quickly now. Why is Brody's family still in this show? Why am I seeing his daughters story line every 5 minutes? Surely their part in all of this is done? Brody is gone, why isn't his family? I can't stand this story line. Every time they come on screen I start doing something else until they're gone from my screen because I just don't care for them now. They are irrelevant. And wow Carrie has become so difficult to care about. I can no longer stand the sight of her screwed up facials. She has turned into such a stupid character I now dislike her a great deal. Who does that leave? Saul. I guess I still kinda like him, even though he went against everything he stands for in dropping Carrie right in it with the CIA. Quinn. He has actually become a good character, and he's easy to like. I hope he doesn't leave as he says he will. And Brody... Yea, who cares now. This show is painful to watch at the moment at the start of season 3. If it doesn't improve a lot and ditch the Brody family I'm out.

No lessons have been learned from past episodes and, at this rate, I do not expect this show to dig through the dunghill its writers have securely placed it under. This episode offered no redeemable aspects that may continue drawing viewers to what was once an admirably designed show with a protagonist equal parts enigma, humanity and menace.

What we're being served with Season 3 of Homeland, and episode 3 in particular, is an uninspired setting (Venezuela? Really America? What's next, North Korea?), limp characterization (nondescript Latin American thugs, cookie-cutter female sympathizer waiting to be swept off her feet, lurid attempts at shock with Dr. Voodoo and his morbid association with a child protégé), and clueless writing with generic dialogues and complete disregard for past seasons.

This show is becoming increasingly erratic and draws on such clichés that I can't see it lifting itself from a steady slide into dullness.

This the third episode of the new season and it has been so boring and slow to me. Nothing really has happen but Carrie being the scapegoat for the CIA as anyone could of predicted after seeing the last episode of Season 2. Brody is running because everyone thinks he did it and it is nothing and no one that can prove he did not put the bomb in his car. Now he is in this Tower of David like some kind of prisoner. These people are turning Brody into a drug addict and telling him there is no where to go and he can not leave. Nothing big has happen yet if you ask me, I'm more interested in who is leaking documents to the senate committee. I been watching Homeland since it premiered two years ago and this is the most boring episodes so far.

The first espisode was disappointing, the second one a disaster, and this 3rd one is a bit better but still not on par with any episode of the previous seasons, period !

Sure, we finally got to see Brody but if you look at it objectively not much happened and it's not filling the gap between the 2nd and 3rd season. I think this gap is the big problem with this season, it doesn't fill in the blanks, and it surely doesn't do it with any tempo. After 3 episodes people are still not up to speed to what happened after the attack.

Brody finds himself in a very odd location that makes no damn sense. Out of all countries he's being held in Caracas/Venzuela, come on now. He has a $10 million bounty on his head yet he is being held in a crackhouse/projects where every dope-head will sell his mamma for a hit. He even moves around in the building and is surrounded by a lot of guards that seem to be extremely loyal. They must be making some serious money not to be tempted to turn him in.

The Carrie mental thing is getting boring and to make a long story short the main characters are losing their shine. They simply don't really appeal anymore, nor do they feel special in any way which results in a broken connection between the viewer and the actor/actress.

I am not sure what thy have planned for the remaining episodes but it must be something out of this world in order to cleanse the foul taste of the previous eps and reconnect with the audience.

1 positive side, the Brody family didn't appear in this episode if i recall correctly, which is a relief as they simply serve no function now that the truth about Brody is out in the open (end of season 2). They are simply victims with shame and issues and are somehow not interesting.

This review contains spoilers !

Showtime at its best, destroyed Dexter after a great start to the series now they are doing it to Homeland. It look to me like they have taken the writers from Dexter and employed them on Homeland.

Another awful episode a dull exchange between Brody in South America and Carrie in some mental institution.

The whole episode was stupid, but the worst part was when Brody went to the Mosk and was picked up by ONLY 2 police mans like he is some kid selling drugs.

My rating 3/10

Watching this episode I had the distinct feeling I was watching something created by a committee. You know what I mean, right? Someone had an idea: "Hey...let's throw THIS in". Then someone else had an idea: "Hey...let's throw THAT in". And before you knew it...it was like some stitched-together Frankenstein Monster. Some shows are about torture. This show WAS torture. In fact, I wholeheartedly believe the luckiest person in this episode was the guy who got thrown off a building. At least he had a concrete ending. Literally. And figuratively. And while it might or might not have been a happy ending, at least it WAS an ending. This Tower of David was like those Spin Art devices you've seen at carnivals -- where it just goes round and round and round, and you pour in a bunch of colors, and in the end you get some razzle-dazzle colorful "painting". Except in this case, there were no colors; just a nauseating array of grays.

About the ONLY good thing I can say about this mess is that at least it was devoid of "The Brody Bunch". (The Brody Bunch...The Brody Bunch...That's the way they became The Brody Bunch.)