Homeland Season 6 [*Spoilers*]

JP Liz V1

Season 6 will be set in New York Source

Mr E

Looks like Season 6 is moving from its usual September start to January 2017.

Renewal for season 7 and 8 are close to being announced.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/homeland-season-6-7-renewed-2017-premiere-1201786831/

After she thwarted a terrorist attack in Berlin, season six picks up several months later and finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) back on American soil, living in Brooklyn, NY. She has begun working at a foundation whose efforts are to provide aid to Muslims living in the United States. Season six will tackle the after effects of the U.S. presidential election, with the entire season taking place between election day and the inauguration. It’s a strange, transitional time in the halls of government filled with anxiety and different competing interests, where a very fragile and complex transfer of power takes place between the outgoing president and the incoming president-elect.

bnt

Vanity Fair piece on the upcoming season here. Elizabeth Marvel (The District, Fargo S2, House of Cards) plays the US President:

Marvel is no stranger to pointed, political shows. Her House of Cards character, Heather Dunbar, made an unsuccessful bid for president back in Season 4 of the Netflix series. Her Homeland character, Elizabeth Keane, is a former Senator from New York. Sound familiar? Looks like Veep won’t be the only show making pointed comments about the Clinton campaign and possible presidency in 2017.

alchemist33

I think a Trumpesque president would make for even better drama! Might be a bit too controversial for them though

mel.b

Quin is in a promo pic for the new season!

honeybear

mel.b wrote: »

Quin is in a promo pic for the new season!

Swoon!!!

Mr E

Season 7 and 8 confirmed.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/homeland/news/a804444/homeland-is-coming-back-for-two-more-seasons/

The Black Oil

Sadly, terrorism will probably still be prominent in the real world by the time those seasons go into production. It's not like they'll be short on real world inspiration.

JP Liz V1

Robert Knepper joins http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2016/08/showtimes-homeland-adds-robert-knepper-recurring-role/

IamMetaldave

Looking forward to this. I've enjoyed every season to date.

The Black Oil

Returns January 15th.

Tiny "Hey, we're back in the States", glimpse of s6 at the end of this promo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-yIsEF-E4g

Mr E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9MvePNpnGg

lukin

Last season was the worst ever.Hopefully season six will be a return to form.

dball

lukin wrote: »

Last season was the worst ever.Hopefully season six will be a return to form.

i disagree - any season without brodys wife and kid is a better season than any other

Slydice

Looking at the ratings section on wiki, they're doing just fine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_(TV_series)#Reception

Hence.. i suppose.. season 6

The Black Oil

Nothing new or exciting there, but hitting familiar notes.

Mr E

Full trailer. Looks great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EBmdbsWTNE

Agent Coulson

Showtime dropped episode 1 today.

bilston

lukin wrote: »

Last season was the worst ever.Hopefully season six will be a return to form.

I enjoyed the last season. S3 was the worst...by a distance...

S4 was the best though.

honeybear

I'm so looking forward to Season 6 - especially seeing Quinn!

Yggr of Asgard

I have mixed emotions after seeing Episode 1.

While I understand the urge to address the current political situation in the USA, I'm note sure about the story lines this season.

And while it's great to see Quinn again and his very real struggle after that horrific story last season, I'm not sure about it. Yes, Rupert Friend is doing an excellent job but I'm not sure I'm going to like his arc.

Carrie is Carrie but even that does not explain her latest pet project rather than her taking a job in Government. Maybe we over the next couple of episodes understand better what is going on with in her heads.

And as to the story line with the new President, to finish the episode this way is really taking it down a rabbit hole that could become reality in a couple of weeks.

So I need at least one or two more episodes before I know if I continue with it.

Fred Swanson

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Slydice

The Quinn story. It looks like they might be doing a brain damage story. That his behaviour and character will be changing because of it. Will be interesting to see where they go with it. Could get into a though watch.

Agent Coulson

So did Homeland assume Hillary was going to win with there new President-elect of the United States.

Fred Swanson

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Yggr of Asgard

Agent Coulson wrote: »

So did Homeland assume Hillary was going to win with there new President-elect of the United States.

I don't think so, the way the new President-Elect seams to be portrayed is someone who is not believing that the previous policies made sense and is more a person believing in non-interventionism, routed in something more than just the loss of her son.

Just because they have chosen to have a female President-Elect does not mean they thought that HRC is going to win, it's just in fashion these days to have a female President, just as it was for a while to have a non-white President (on screen I mean).

The way the policies of their President-Elect seams to go, it's more the way of an outsider, so President-Elect Trump comes to mind there.

The Black Oil

iirc, some months back the producers talked about s6's POTUS being a blend of candidates*. Howard Gordon was involved in 24 and it had a black POTUS before anyone thought that was likely. I don't see this as a gender issue, though I've not watched 6.01 yet.

*And I think that comes from how, each year, the creators hang out in Washington for a bit, talking to political types, etc and probably the wider national conversation that took place in the US in 2016, election result aside.

naughto

I thinking the new president or Hilary as I am calling her is going to get a bullet from the Israel dudes and blame it on issis

so they keep their projects funded and in control

lukin

The first ep wasn't supposed to be released this early, the second one isn't down to be broadcasted until the 22nd January so it's a strange move by Showtime.
Hard to watch Quinn being so messed up. Hopefully he doesn't stay like that for long as it is already getting boring. That German millionaire dude sure is a weirdo the way he is stalking Carrie. Maybe he thinks because he is rich he can have anything he wants.
Promising enough start, hopefully it will be a good season.

Agent Coulson

Showtime have been releasing premier episodes of there shows early for a couple of years now to help build buzz.

saggycaggy

When is Season 6 airing on RTE? Thanks.

brian_t

saggycaggy wrote: »

When is Season 6 airing on RTE? Thanks.

brian_t wrote: »

Homeland Season 6 starts on RTÉ Two at 9:30pm on Tuesday 17th January.

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saggycaggy

Sorry missed that previously! Thanks!

yes not really that excited about this year's storylines, albeit I haven't seen ep 1 yet.

hopefully they will leave out the so far mandatory 2 episodes of Carrie bipolar freak-out in this year's run.

My ranking of Homeland seasons up to now, from worst to best.

S 02
S 03
S 05
S 01
S 04

lukin

glasso wrote: »

yes not really that excited about this year's storylines, albeit I haven't seen ep 1 yet.

hopefully they will leave out the so far mandatory 2 episodes of Carrie bipolar freak-out in this year's run.

My ranking of Homeland seasons up to now, from worst to best.

S 02
S 03
S 05
S 01
S 04

Yeah season four was good but I wouldn't say it was better than season one (season one was the best of all). Last season (season five) was the worst I thought.
Season two was pretty good I thought.

lukin

lukin wrote: »

Yeah season four was good but I wouldn't say it was better than season one (season one was the best of all). Last season (season five) was the worst I thought.
Season two was pretty good I thought.

Carrie's fake freakout ruined season 2 for me! I actually quit it and only came back to watch it 2 years later.
It also had the ridiculous pacemaker thing with the vice president.
4 I just liked a lot - all the action was well executed and I thought the location worked really well and the dynamic of the ISI working against the Americans was very current with all the drone strikes at the time.

lukin

lukin wrote: »

Yeah season four was good but I wouldn't say it was better than season one (season one was the best of all). Last season (season five) was the worst I thought.
Season two was pretty good I thought.

well I'd have seasons 4 and 1 well ahead of the other seasons - it's like 2 groups, one good group and one bad group. I agree that 5 wasn't that good at all.

-the drip of a boyfriend
-the story with Quinn and the terrorist befriendiing/ inflitration etc.
-the carrie freakout (yet again).

all poor supporting stories

lukin

Carrie was also way hotter in previous seasons also:http://static.celebuzz.com/uploads/2015/07/homeland-07092015.jpg

watched episode 1 - was... OK.

Yggr of Asgard

I think there is a danger that reality is going to be catching up with this show way to quickly.

Just following the current president - elects twitter posts about the intelligence community makes the meeting of parts of the intelligence community in the season opener of Homeland look like reality.

lukin

Yggr of Asgard wrote: »

I think there is a danger that reality is going to be catching up with this show way to quickly.

Just following the current president - elects twitter posts about the intelligence community makes the meeting of parts of the intelligence community in the season opener of Homeland look like reality.

Remember after season one there was a real life version of Brody called Bowe Bergdahl:
http://clashdaily.com/2014/06/life-imitates-art-sgt-bergdahl-real-life-sgt-brody/

C. Montgomery Gurns

Decent enough opener, but WTF was the

whole thing with Quinn in the crack house? How did he know these people? It looked as though the male nurse set it all up for him to be robbed of what I assume was his sickness benefits he was picking up, but he seemed to have known the blonde from before, and what was with the scene where the guy was going to shoot him until the blonde girl told him to pull back?

Slydice

C. Montgomery Gurns wrote: »

Decent enough opener, but WTF was the

whole thing with Quinn in the crack house? How did he know these people? It looked as though the male nurse set it all up for him to be robbed of what I assume was his sickness benefits he was picking up, but he seemed to have known the blonde from before, and what was with the scene where the guy was going to shoot him until the blonde girl told him to pull back?

It's set up months after the events of the previous season. They haven't explained what has happened yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_(season_6)

Taking place several months after the previous season

C. Montgomery Gurns

Slydice wrote: »

It's set up months after the events of the previous season. They haven't explained what has happened yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_(season_6)

I absolutely love Homeland, I find it incredible how few people watch it compared to medicore stuff like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. But this "bunch of weirdos hanging out with a main character" jazz is awful reminiscent of season 3 when Brodie ended up in Venezuela for the first 3 episodes with no explaination of who his minders were (after which I turned off. Homeland is genius but season 3 is simply unwatchable, I did 3 episodes before I gave up, read up on wiki what happened and skipped to season 4. Brodie's time in South America was one thing, his daughter's thing playing out like an episode of Dawsons Creek was just too much for me to hold on)

lukin

C. Montgomery Gurns wrote: »

I absolutely love Homeland, I find it incredible how few people watch it compared to medicore stuff like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. But this "bunch of weirdos hanging out with a main character" jazz is awful reminiscent of season 3 when Brodie ended up in Venezuela for the first 3 episodes with no explaination of who his minders were (after which I turned off. Homeland is genius but season 3 is simply unwatchable, I did 3 episodes before I gave up, read up on wiki what happened and skipped to season 4. Brodie's time in South America was one thing, his daughter's thing playing out like an episode of Dawsons Creek was just too much for me to hold on)

I actually didn't mind the stuff with Brody in the Tower of David in Venezuela.I thought it was pretty cool that they would use something from real life in the show.

lukin

lukin wrote: »

I actually didn't mind the stuff with Brody in the Tower of David in Venezuela.I thought it was pretty cool that they would use something from real life in the show.

it was just so boring though - too much of the same location. or rather, pretty much the same room/floor.

JP Liz V1

Channel 4 start is 22nd January at 9pm

C. Montgomery Gurns

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Channel 4 start is 22nd January at 9pm

Honest question but why is UK terrestrial TV always so far behind Irish channels with American TV? Years ago I remember The Sopranos on Channel 4 was like 5 months behind RTE.

brian_t

C. Montgomery Gurns wrote: »

Honest question but why is UK terrestrial TV always so far behind Irish channels with American TV? Years ago I remember The Sopranos on Channel 4 was like 5 months behind RTE.

The Sopranos and Homeland are two programmes in 20 years. I wouldn't have thought there were that many examples of others.

But maybe I'm wrong.

saw episode 2 there. this year hasn't really gotten going yet - hopefully it will actually get going.
the whole Quinn thing is dull - he's probably going to top himself.

Agent Coulson

The Quinn story line will be it's downfall this season I think.