With its season seven debut, the cloak-and-dagger cable series Homeland veered full force into its plot line depicting an American president who is a fascist, paranoid, autocratic, and un-American criminal. But, despite the obvious liberal theme, producers insist they aren’t portraying a fictionalized Donald Trump.
Alex Gansa, Showtime’s ‘Homeland’ producer, said that his show’s new season will feature a showdown between the president and the ‘deep state.’
The trailer for Showtime’s upcoming seventh season of Homeland features former CIA agent Carrie Mathison squaring off against a power-hungry, corrupt new president.
Whether portraying the noble geopolitics of “Madam Secretary” or the dirty deeds on “House of Cards,” the high-stakes fumbling on “Veep” or the scourge of terrorism that haunts “Homeland,” script writers have always faced the challenge of staying topical yet inventive without straying outside the bounds of plausibility.
Showtime’s popular political thriller Homeland will feature a female president-elect when the show returns next year for its sixth season.
Showtime’s popular political thriller Homeland will add a female president-elect in its sixth season, according to the show’s star Claire Danes.
Homeland showrunner Alex Gansa says that the ISIS-related storyline in Season 5 of the hit Showtime series was never meant to so closely mirror the real-world exploits of the terror group – it just happened to turn out that way.
