Even though she is more on a laidback city and environment, Carrie will be eventually thrown into her usual role as Berlin happens to be the center for dissidence. Show producer Alex Gansa said that the new location is the center for the surveillance refuseniks. That is where hacktivists go because German privacy laws are so strict that it’s really difficult to put people under surveillance.
Miranda Otto shall be portraying CIA’s current Berlin Chief of Station, directly working under Saul. There have been reports that Carrie’s other tasks will include trying to take the helm in uptight relations between the US and Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
The show has definitely undergone major changes after the departure of series regular Damien Lewis, who is playing the character, Nicholas Brody.
Amid the sticky situation that he got himself into in Syria during the Season 4 finale, Peter Quinn has obviously managed to escape and judging by his German-looking surrounding in one of the series’ trailers, he shall also be joining Carrie in Berlin.
After their passionate kiss at the funeral of Carrie’s father in Season 4, fans would really like to see Carrie and Peter together. But it is likely to be a short-lived romantic tryst given her record with men.
From its Middle East setting in Season 4, the fifth season of “Homeland” has moved and filmed entirely in Berlin, Germany.
Thus, “Homeland” will go down in history as the first American TV series to shoot a full season in Germany.