S2E09: The Weeping Somnambulist.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo as Avasarala is such an amazing actor in that role. It would be so easy for her to take the easy way for a politician part, but instead she delivers both the anger, heartbreak, triumph and sometimes helplessness that exists in true leadership that is rarely portrayed on screen.
She played it like she was born to play that specific role. I've read a few of the books, and Aghdashloo doesn't match the book's description of Avasarala, but I cannot imagine anyone else portraying her. So well done.