That was fast!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Glen1
Yes, I hope the Haqqani plot will continue too. How did you think the latest series compared to the first three? Did you enjoy it as much?
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That was fast!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Glen1
Yes, I hope the Haqqani plot will continue too. How did you think the latest series compared to the first three? Did you enjoy it as much?
I think the best yet, quite a few surprises. Would have liked to see a better conclusion , but if the plot continues it should be worth waiting for. Certainly watching it, was a good relief to the new medical condition Lucybealeitis. ( Love it really) ...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dazzle
Some news about Homeland's fifth series for us fans:
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When Homeland returns to our TV screens for its fifth season, it's set to look a little different.
For starters, the political thriller is jumping forward in time by two-and-a-half years. And it will be set during a moment when - brace yourselves, Homeland fans - Carrie Mathison isn't working for the CIA.
\"Carrie will no longer be an intelligence officer,\" executive producer Alex Gansa said, reports Variety.
Speaking at PaleyFest this weekend Gansa also revealed that the show's fifth season would be filmed in Germany, perhaps hinting at a new European job role for the troubled agent.
The show's executive producer called the news that Carrie won't be working for the CIA a \"tiny teaser\", going on to joke that series five will see her \"making beer.\"
Homeland series four, which saw the show reboot after the death of Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), was set in Islamabad. The finale was relatively low key for the fast-paced show, with Carrie and co pulling out of Pakistan and returning to the US.
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Former CIA officer Carrie Mathieson has a new city, new boss and even a new love interest in season five of Homeland, and now we know who she has fallen for.
German actor Alexander Fehling plays Jonas Happich, a lawyer dating the troubled CIA agent (Claire Danes) during her self-imposed exile in Berlin. Fehling is best known in the UK for his role in Quentin Tarantino's alternate history film Inglorious Basterds.
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Working for a private security firm two years after her tenure as Islamabad station chief came to a dramatic end, Carrie Mathieson is no longer answering to Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) or the CIA. Instead, her new boss is Otto During, a German philanthropist played by Sebastian Koch, who starred in Oscar-winning German film The Lives of Others.
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Also joining the cast for season five is Lord of The Rings actress Miranda Otto, who plays the CIA's current Berlin Chief of Station, working directly under Carrie's mentor Saul. Sarah Sokolovic appears as Laura Sutton, an American journalist working in the German capital.
US network Showtime also confirmed the return of British actor Rupert Friend as CIA agent Peter Quinn who was last seen embarking on a dangerous mission after his budding romance with Carrie faltered.
The new series is about to begin filming in Berlin, and will be the first US show to be made entirely in Germany.
Sounds like it could be very interesting and I'm already wondering if Carrie's still secretly working for the CIA in some capacity. I'm glad Peter Quinn's back but will we see Saul again? I hope so. :)
That's good news Dazzle, something to look forward to in October I guess. Doesn't seem time will be wasted on Carrie's relationship with her mother ,hope not. Agree with your other comments ,if so should be a cracking series.:cheer:
Good news fellow Homeland fans! Saul's definitely back for the next series. http://www.picgifs.com/smileys/smile...ing-176278.gif
It sounds like Mandy Patinkin identifies just a little too much with Saul. :DQuote:
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CIA thriller Homeland shows no signs of slowing down. The drama, starring Claire Danes, Rupert Friend and Mandy Patinkin, is currently filming its fifth season, which will see another change of scenery for the drama.
The series has jumped forward two years - and relocated to the capital of Germany.
“[Berlin] is a character in the season itself,” Patinkin tells us. “It was the epicentre of one of the most horrible events in human recorded history. The consequences of those events never go away. They hang in the air everywhere; you can never wipe away or erase; you can never forget them; they never should be forgot. And that is a clear cut metaphor for what our hero Carrie Mathison is experiencing and what Saul Bereson is experiencing - and what everyone experiences.”
The show will have a different feel when it returns, says the 62-year-old actor, much like it did during its last run, when the drama moved to Islamabad in the wake of Brody’s [Damien Lewis] demise.
“The literal light is different so you see it visually as well. The place is different and the people are different. It’s in every shot, it’s in the way the sets appear, it’s part of its fabric. You will feel it.”
For Patinkin, who plays former CIA head Saul Berenson, it’s a big shift, after a tough fourth season which saw Saul being kidnapped, held captive and then traded for “the freedom of some individuals who were going to create more harm.”
“I had no trouble imagining making a mistake – I make mistakes all the time in my own life – and then you end up in a place you didn’t expect to be and then you have to pay a price for it,” Patinkin says.
He wishes his character’s journey in season four was “a harder thing to imagine.”
“I think about those things all the time. We are drowning in it, everywhere we look… The world is bleeding.”
Season five will see Saul as a changed man. “I don’t know what the words are, whether it’s existing or recovering. That experience is part of him for the rest of his life.”
This permanency, Patinkin says, is something he has begun to understand during his time on the show: “He and I have learned that anything that’s broken or gone wrong, in this world or in our lives, can’t be fixed. You can’t fix it and make it go away. You can’t wave a magic wand. It’s broken, it’s there, it’s hurt forever. But what you can do is move forward from this moment and try to make the world a better place.”
Ultimately that's what Homeland is about: “It asks us to listen to what’s not being heard on either side, to acknowledge and recognise the terrible, terrible mistakes that both sides make and to see the reasons that those mistakes might be made.”
“The answer to the problems are not violence, war, bombs, terrorism, cutting off people’s heads, drones,” says Patinkin, “the answer is negotiation, the answer is finding what we all have in common.”
“Every breath Saul Berenson takes is filled with hope and optimism. And that is what guides his soul - and keeps him searching for a more peaceful world\", says Patinkin.
It’s clearly an important cause which is close to the actor's own heart. Five years ago when he was first handed a script, he says he knew who Saul was “instantly” and sees countless parallels between himself and the character.
“It’s a little tricky sometimes to know who’s who - whether I’m him or he’s me,” says Patinkin.
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Carrie and Saul clash in first Homeland season five trailer
With blows to the head, kidnappings, shots and explosions, the first teaser trailer for Homeland's fifth season contains a lot of the stuff we've come to expect from the high-octane political thriller. But not everything is as it was.
Carrie Mathison has packed in the CIA – and packed up her old life – to move to the German capital of Berlin.
The 30-second clip catches up with her two years after her "ill-fated tenure as Islamabad station chief", seeing the troubled former agent working in Europe "as the head of security for a German philanthropist."
She seems at peace with her new life away from the CIA, but former mentor Saul Berenson clearly doesn't agree with Carrie's decision...
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"You've turned your back on your entire life," Saul says. "What are you atoning for? Keeping America safe? You're being naive and stupid, something you never were before."
"I'm not atoning. I'm just trying to do good work," responds Carrie.
But, as ever in Homeland, there's more to it than that, with the teaser's caption reading that the new mum is "struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the 'war on terror.'"
Homeland season five returns later this year
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New series of Homeland returns Sunday 11th.October at 9pm on channel 4. Really looking forward to the start, hope it maintains previous standards....:thumbsup:
Thanks for the heads-up. I'm also looking forward to it. :)Quote:
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Homeland creator Alex Gansa: we 'couldn't ignore' Isis
The US drama's executive producer on Carrie's relocation to Berlin and how Islamic State 'crept back into the story in a major way'
Homeland has hit the reboot button once again for series five – this time relocating to Berlin where we find Claire Danes's Carrie Mathison working in private security for a German philanthropist. The decision to place Europe at the epicentre of the show came after the Homeland team's annual research visit to Washington DC where they meet to hash out each upcoming season.
'If you'll recall what was happening at the start of the year, the whole Edward Snowden thing was really snowballing, the rise of Isis was happening, then there were the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris,' explains executive producer Alex Gansa. 'It all felt that now that part of Europe was the centre of the world.'
Hence the decision to put Carrie in Berlin – 'the great spy town' – with 'Russia banging next door.'
The relationship between the West and East and 'concern about Putin rattling the sabre' plays a major part in the next season, according to Gansa, who reveals the team initially considered restricting the story to Russian and American intelligence operating in Berlin. But how would Homeland treat Islamic State?
'It has been difficult even to do the research required to portray that jihadist movement and dramatise it,' explains Gansa. 'Should we even acknowledge their existence, make them part of the story, and humanise them at some level?'
After those initial discussions about an American-Russian narrative arc, the team decided the threat of Isis is 'just so part of the landscape right now that it felt like we were wilfully ignoring something that couldn't be ignored. So it has crept back into the story in a major way.'
Quite how that threat will materialise remains to be seen as episode one finds Carrie in the German capital following a two-year time jump – although its not long before a request from her billionaire boss forces her back towards Saul, Quinn and the world she left behind.
Homeland series five starts this Sunday at 9pm on Channel 4
Did anyone watch? I enjoyed it and think the season is off to an exciting start. I'm impressed at how topical the story is too.
I had to laugh when Carrie was kidnapped! It's business as usual! :D