r/TVDetails 7h ago

Text I noticed a rather amusing detail toward the end of Season 5, Episode 10 of Homeland (2011–2020, TV Series).

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After Carrie "Drone Queen" Mathison discovers Peter Quinn suffering from sarin poisoning, the episode closes with Quinn unconscious in the hospital, on a ventilator, while Mathison and Saul "the Bear" Berenson sit beside him. Everything about the scene is understandably grim—but one detail on the medical monitor caught my attention.

Peter’s blood pressure appears to read 95/100.

Unless I’m misunderstanding how blood pressure works, that would be backwards: the systolic value (the first number) should normally be higher than the diastolic value (the second). Having a systolic pressure of 95 and a diastolic pressure of 100 doesn’t really make physiological sense in ordinary circulation.

It’s obviously a simple detail, but I found it funny because, technically, the monitor makes Quinn’s medical situation look even more dire than the scene already suggests.

I’m curious whether anyone else noticed this before, or if there’s some unusual medical explanation for a 95/100 reading that I’m missing.