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Homeland season 7 trailer: The president must be stopped

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“The country is in freefall, tearing itself apart!” warns Carrie Mathison.

Yeah, so we’ve heard.

Former CIA agent Mathison (Claire Danes) is back in the first trailer for Showtime’s Homeland season 7, which depicts the show’s heroes and villains alike struggling against an overreaching and civil rights-abusing president.

The upcoming season of the espionage thriller has a rogue Mathison trying to take down criminals in the government under the tyrannical administration of President Keene (Elizabeth Marvel), who has arrested 200 members of the intelligence community after barely surviving an assassination plot in the season 6 finale.

Also targeting Keene: The show’s Alex Jones-like conspiracy character Brett O’Keefe (Jake Weber) who was first introduced last season. “The founding fathers foresaw the dark day when we would face a president like her,” warns O’Keefe as he aims a pistol at a poster of the president’s face. “Anyone who takes a stand for what they believe, people are gonna say they’re crazy. They’ve been calling me that for years.”

Meanwhile, Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) is getting close to Keene as a new member of her administration, while Keene herself is apparently under investigation for her actions (“How is that they tried to assassinate me and I’m the one under investigation?” she asks).

If you’re looking to figure out what Homeland might be trying to say about our current administration … well, it’s trickier than it looks. The show banked on Hillary Clinton winning in 2016 while making season 6, then recalibrated a bit midway through after Donald Trump won. Keene was originally presented as a liberal and sympathetic figure until the season’s climactic assassination attempt, after which she went on an authoritarian warpath, which is where this alternate D.C. universe finds itself now.

Homeland returns Sunday, Feb. 11.

http://ew.com/tv/2017/12/12/homeland-season-7-trailer/


The only thing that matters about Season 7 is that Quinn is dead.  He was the best character on the show.

We'll see where this goes.  The bottom line is that their Hillary Clinton is President and that she becomes a power abuser.  There is no way possible they will succeed in turning this into a portrayal of Trump.

Anyway, . . . been a fan of the show since Day One.  But the missing time gaps installed between seasons is taking away from the show.

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I like seasons 1 - 4, but I stopped watching after season 5.

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'Homeland' in the Trump era tackles the 'deep state'

By Judy Kurtz - 02/06/18 03:59 PM EST

Each year, the team behind “Homeland” takes a weeklong research field trip to Washington to prep for the espionage thriller’s upcoming season. But this time around, when Showtime's crew touched down in D.C. two months after President Trump’s inauguration, the mood was different.

“There was a lot of saber-rattling going on in North Korea, and there was a lot of concern about the new administration, and people were frankly and evidently nervous,” Alex Gansa, “Homeland’s” showrunner, tells ITK.

In preparation for production, the “Homeland” team started asking what recourse intelligence officers and National Security Agency workers had if “they see an administration going off the rails.”

Gansa says he found “there was a strange sort of new alliance that was taking place between the intelligence community and the fourth estate, which we found interesting.”

The thriller’s seventh season, premiering Sunday, lands former CIA operative Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, back in Washington to confront the country’s fictional new commander in chief, President Elizabeth Keane. Following an assassination attempt, Keane, played by Elizabeth Marvel, begins to run an increasingly paranoid administration.

The political thriller’s head honcho says although “Keane is not Trump and Trump is not Keane,” the two “share similar issues.”

“I don’t believe we’d be telling the story in Washington, D.C., if Hillary Clinton had been elected president,” says Gansa.

Asked what Trump might take away from this season, Gansa replies, “I doubt he’d learn one thing. I think he might be amused just to watch an administration convinced that there was something called the ‘deep state’ aligned against her. Clearly that’s a fear that the Trump administration feels every day.”

While former President Obama was known to be a “Homeland” fan, Gansa says he hasn’t heard whether cable news-loving Trump has tuned in.  .  .  .

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/372597-homeland-tackles-the-deep-state


According to Claire Daines, the only reason Obama was a Homeland fan was because he could see himself in the opening credits.