![]() Yet Homeland’s sympathies lie with the president-elect. President-elect Keane tries to handle a situation rapidly spiraling out of control. But on a deeper level, her outsider status and battle against the intelligence community resembles our current president. On a very superficial level, President-elect Keane resembles Hillary Clinton. In the broad outlines of this character - named Elizabeth Keane and played with great panache by Elizabeth Marvel - you can see how Homeland spent much of last year, when season six was being written, trying to have its cake and eat it too. (She thinks the intelligence community has hoarded enough power so as to effectively turn the US into a police state.) She’s also deeply embroiled in a war with the intelligence community, who see her as hopefully naive. The president-elect is an unexpected victor, with questions still swirling around the story surrounding her. It takes as its premise the transition from one presidential administration to the other. The sixth season of Homeland is the show’s first to be set stateside since its third, and it’s the first to be filmed in New York. Homeland is afraid of the Deep State, even as it’s kind of in love with it In its sixth season, the show feels, more and more, like it got a whole bunch right about how the world operates, how the security state tries to maintain its iron grip of power on America, and how dangerous the spread of deliberately false information can be.Įxcept Homeland can’t help that it’s been trumped - the pun is unintentional, I swear, but it might as well not be - by reality. It’s all happening, only it’s happening on Homeland, and the way in which it’s happening reveals both how relevant and utterly insignificant the show remains. Oh, and have I mentioned that Russia remains an elaborate, omnipresent boogeyman, or that there are rumblings of the collapse of a nuclear deal with Iran, even though nobody’s sure the Iranians are reneging on the deal? The whole of American power rests on a knife’s edge, and the transition from one presidential administration to another is caught up not only in the question of who’s peddling all the bullshit - but the question of how much that bullshit ultimately factored into the result of the election. ![]() For a second, it seems as if the charge might stick, but then, the media personality pushes back, suggesting the president is wrong to threaten the freedom of the press, even by implication.īut there really is a fake news conspiracy within the United States - or at least one that’s meant to spread extensive misinformation in order to turn people against powerful politicians. The president, angry, accuses a media personality of peddling fake news. ![]() The episode of the week for April 2 through April 8 is “R Is for Romeo,” the 11th episode of the sixth season of Showtime’s Homeland. Every Sunday, we pick a new episode of the week. ![]()
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