Apart from featuring the US presidential elections beginning with Election Day leading up to the inauguration, Season 6 of the American political thriller “Homeland” will also showcase the continued effects of the 9/11 attacks in New York and the United States in general.
It was showrunner Alex Gansa who confirmed the main plotlines for the upcoming sixth season of “Homeland” set to premiere on Showtime on January 15, 2017, reports Yibada.
Another interesting subplot for Season 6 is the return of Peter Quinn, played by Rupert Friend, even when he was seen to have almost died during the Season 5 finale after being exposed to sarin gas.
After falling into a coma, Quinn is awakened so that Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, and Saul Berenson, played by Mandy Patinkin, can extract information from the fallen CIA operative. But the doctors diagnosed Quinn to have a minimal cognitive function.
After Quinn declared his love for Carrie through a letter, the latter considered suffocating Quinn with a pillow as a form of mercy killing during the Season 5 finale.
A casualty of war on terror
But since Rupert Friend is confirmed to return for Season 6 as Peter Quinn, Carrie apparently did not push through with euthanasia.
There are confirmed reports saying that Peter Quinn is still a series regular in “Homeland” Season 6 cast, but the character is going to be dramatized, indicating that he will be a changed man and unlike what he was when viewers first met him.
Accordingly, Quinn will represent a profound and familiar casualty of the war on terror. The things he will have to endure in the new season will be different from what he had to go through in the past. Moreover, his daily life is intertwined with his relationship with Carrie.
As to whether he and Carrie would get back together or not, Gansa said that because they’re both very damaged people, they have a similar attraction to high voltage and high adrenaline situations that tend to have an incredible benefit but more likely to have a very catastrophic end.
Made the wrong guess on the US elections
The latest trailer for “Homeland” Season 6 featured Carrie, Saul, and Dar Adal, played by F. Murray Abraham, as they handle the challenges of a female president-elect after the US elections, notes the Independent of UK.
It would have been similar to the real-life situation had Hillary Clinton won during the real-life US presidential elections on November 8 but it seems that the showrunner made the wrong guess on the election as it was Donald Trump who won and is about to become the 45th President of the US in January next year.
Earlier this year, Showtime renewed the TV series for a further two seasons which means that “Homeland” will be on-air until 2019 at the very least.
Incidentally, the return of Rupert Friend as Peter Quinn was also confirmed on the ground when he was spotted back in August filming in New York.
But things do not look well for the actor’s character as he looks pretty edgy while sporting some disheveled hair, dingy clothes, and velcro shoes, that he looked more like an American veteran who fought for the country once but did not get the support he deserved.
As if mimicking the physical ordeal of his character in “Homeland,” Rupert Friend was recently spotted at Showtime’s pre-Emmy event where he was seen on crutches.
Apparently, the actor was injured while he was filming the first and second episodes of “Homeland” Season 6, causing the delay in the production of the TV series.
In an interview, Friend explained that he broke a bone in his right ankle while off work. However, the injury is related to two on-set occurrences during the production of Seasons 4 and 5 of “Homeland” when he rolled his foot, which further weakened his ligaments.