‘Homeland’ Season 6 Will Show Time Gap, Peter Quinn Confirmed Dead?

Showtime Homeland Season 6 has no official release date, but the recent update shows that the series will not pick up from where it was ended in Season 5. Rather, the upcoming season will follow Claire Danes’ Carrie Mathison’s life in Brooklyn after a gap of four to five years.

According to TV Line, the bipolar former CIA officer’s daughter Frannie will become a major character on the show. Homeland is recasting the role of Frannie, who will be now a 5-year-old girl. In all the earlier episodes, whenever Frannie was shown, she was in Carrie or her sister’s arms. But now, she will have a more prominent presence.

What is going to happen to Peter Quinn is one of the most asked questions by fans on social media platforms. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Showtime president Gary Levine talked about Friend’s future in the show.

“Quinn is severely damaged. There is no question about it. The life-or-death question remains. But if he should live, it will not be in any way, shape or form the way he has lived to date.”

Does it mean that Quinn is going to die?

Well, Homeland’s co-creator Alex Gansa thinks otherwise. In his recent interview, he stated that Quinn is indeed coming back, but his character cannot be speculated by anyone.

“How Peter Quinn’s character is gonna be dramatized this year is going to surprise people, and it may not be what you think.”

He further revealed that since both Quinn and Carrie have seen personal loss and are emotionally damaged. If they get together, then there are chances that will jeopardize their missions.

“They’re both very damaged people and I think that they have a similar attraction to high voltage, high adrenaline situations that tend to have an incredible benefit but more likely to have a very catastrophic end.”

Meanwhile, in other news, it is also being confirmed that the upcoming season will show a female president.

During the recently held Q&A with director Lesli Linka Glatter and Danes, it was announced by Showtime that the political thriller series will feature a female president. After the news broke down, many fans wondered if the new character will have similar qualities like the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.

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Although Danes herself clarified the confusion and stated via Variety that the new character will get along with Carrie very well, she will not resemble any real-life personality.

“Homeland’s new president will not be a thinly veiled Hillary Clinton figure but rather – a composite of all the different candidates – she’s challenging norms and is a little scary for that reason.”

Meanwhile, in the upcoming season, viewers will get to see Carrie stationed only in New York City. As many of the fans remember, in all the previous seasons, Carrie was seen working in different cities from around the world, namely Istanbul, Islamabad, Tehran, and Berlin. Showtime CEO David Nevins thinks that this is, in fact, the right time to bring her back home as she has seen the entire world and her character deserves to be close to her family.

“Homeland will be shot next year in New York City, in and around New York. It will be set domestically. It will be set primarily in the New York area, but not exclusively.”

Even Gansa revealed in her conversation with the Sioux City Journal that Carrie and her fellow CIA officers are going to serve domestically, but they may move to some different cities after Season 6.

“We’ve taken her through so much sturm and drang over the last few years that we thought it would be nice to give her a little domestic bliss – which, by the way, was not something everybody wanted to do or everyone wanted to see on our staff.”

Homeland Season 6 has no official date at the moment. But with the recent update regarding Claire Danes’ Carrie Mathison’s daughter and the death of Rupert Friend’s Peter Quinn, fans cannot wait for this political thriller to return.

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