'Homeland' Season 6 Episode Recap: Max's New Job Reveals Internet Trolls

By Gracezyl Blanco, Sunday, March 26, 2017

Showtime's hit crime-thriller series "Homeland" aired yet another unpredictable episode last March 19 titled "Sock Puppets."

"Sock Puppets" is the ninth episode of the show's sixth season, and it comes just after the paranoia-filled episode titled "Alt.Truth."

The episode started out slow, with Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) meeting a psychiatrist to get the evaluation she needs before seeing her daughter, Franny, who was already under the custody of a New York City child welfare agency.

After Carrie's honest conversation with the psychiatrist, the episode rolled out into a rather mind-boggling sequence of intense events.

Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) betrays Majid Javadi (Shaun Toub) when he instead delivers the latter to his friends in Mossad who are all bent in convincing President-elect Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) that the Iranian government cheated on the nuclear agreement.

This was after Javadi trusted Adal to get him some cash and safe passage to the U.S. after he was revealed to be a double-agent in Mossad.

This eventually led to Javadi's disappearance, and thanks to his phone which was located, it was revealed that Mossad and the CIA are all in on the plan to make Iran look like they cheated on the agreement, when they did not.

More interesting, however, is Quinn's (Rupert Friend) comeback despite his deteriorating mental health during the show's previous episodes. Quinn stole an array of weapons and broke into Adal's home.

Adal dodged a bullet, and after a rather timely phone call to Astrid's (Nina Hoss) supposed murderer, Quinn left Adal and searched for the killer instead.

Another huge reveal involves Max's (Maury Sterling) new job, wherein he was hired immediately after proving himself overqualified.

Max then found himself in an office where a paid group of people maintain multiple online profiles and overwhelm the internet with their strongly partisan-biased opinions.

These people are known as "sock puppets," of which the episode title was based on, and it greatly mirrors today's issue about internet trolls who are suspected of disseminating fake news, misinformation, and black propaganda.

Fans are still surprised after "Homeland's" turn of events, and no one can predict what could happen next.

"Homeland" airs new episodes every Sunday, 9 p.m. EDT on Showtime. Its next episode is titled "The Flag House."