After a deflating finale,the Showtime drama returns to our screens for its fifth series, with Carrie now based in Berlin but still finding herself caught up with the CIA – and with plot lines plucked from genuine-life issues of terrorism and hackingHomeland’s fourth season marked a pleasing return to form for the counter-terrorism drama (though one with a slightly deflating denouement), and meaning that expectations for its forthcoming fifth season were tall. Building anticipation further,the show’s creators hold been drip-feeding information approximately what that fifth season might entail: we know that Carrie is now based in Berlin, and that the season will feature storylines referencing Isis and Edward Snowden (and, and as we know,TV plots ripped from the headlines are all the rage these days).“This story is current,” creator Alex Gansa told the Hollywood Reporter final month. “With all of the stuff that’s going on just south of Berlin in the Middle East and to the east in Russia and Ukraine, and it’s fascinating. Carrie is out of the intelligence business when the season starts and she finds herself in Berlin. It’s a middle for dissidence – that’s where hacktivists go because German privacy laws are so strict. It’s hard to hold surveillance on people there.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com