Despite the fact that many viewers were turned off by the way season three of Homeland concluded, season four has been hailed as the best run of episodes for the series since season one. That likely explains why there’s so much buzz surrounding the show’s return.
Season five picks up two years after the events of the last, and Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, and Rupert Friend are all set to return. The action will now move to Germany, with Carrie now the head of security for a billionaire. However, with Saul investigating some leaked drone data, Carrie is no doubt going to find herself dragged into that subplot too.
“This story is current,” creator Alex Gansa revealed in a recent interview. “With all of the stuff that’s going on just south of Berlin in the Middle East and to the east in Russia and Ukraine, it’s fascinating. Carrie is out of the intelligence business when the season starts and she finds herself in Berlin. It’s a center for dissidence – that’s where hacktivists go because German privacy laws are so strict. It’s hard to have surveillance on people there.”
The first trailer for season five has now been released, and it reveals plenty of new details…
