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‘Carrie has no real option but to let the Taliban take Saul, but it  doesn't  make the act of doing it any less unpleasant.’ Photograph: Twentieth Century Fox/Ilze Kitshoff/Showtime Spoiler alert: This blog is for people watching Homeland series four. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen season four, episode eight Read the episode seven blog here. ‘There are only wrong choices’ A taut hour of spy games shot through with moral complexity and character-driven drama – Halfway to a Donut is the strongest episode of Homeland we’ve seen in quite some time, and certainly the best of the post-Brody era. It’s also, not coincidentally, the first time in a long while that Homeland has properly used its other great central relationship, Carrie and Saul. In Homeland’s early seasons, that pairing – Saul as the bruised mentor, Carrie as the self-destructive mentee – felt no less watchable than the relationship between Carrie and Brody. So I’ve been quite disappointed b...