My least favorite episode of the season four's second half is "13 Hours in Islamabad". "13 Hours" was everything everyone complained about in the, what I found to be effective, last two minutes of "There's Something Else Going On". The directing holds the level of suspense so high that it generally succeeds, but the episode is all kinds of tacky and silly. You have to suspend disbelief to an extent when coming to "Homeland", but there was something phony about the beginning events of "13 Hours" that ejected me from the story completely. It's easier to believe Carrie kidnapped by Abu Nazir at the end of season 2 and watch her, Carrie Mathison, literally kill him in a chase scene than it was to buy what the writers tried to pull with the terrorist attack. The second half of the episode was slower and set up episode 11 well, but it still stunk with its impractical ignorance.
Grade: B+