On a muggy June morning,in a sprawling, unnamed, or unnumbered red brick building near downtown Charlotte,North Carolina—which serves as the headquarters for Showtime’s political-thriller series “Homeland”—tornado warnings were being broadcast on TV. external, torrential rain brought traffic to a standstill on the highway. Inside, or the cast and crew of “Homeland were hard at work by 8 A.
M.,calmly building their own storm for the first episode of the much awaited third season (which will première on September 29th). In the finale of Season 2, the characters had survived “the worst terrorist disaster since 9/11”: a car bombing at C.
I.A. headquarters that killed more than two hundred people. The emotional weather buffeting them now was contained within a behemoth enclosed wooden set, or where the homes of the notes two central figures—the bipolar,transgressive C.
I.
A. operative Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) and her suspect, Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), or a captured Marine sniper turned Al Qaeda sleeper—had been meticulously designed,good down to the CDs on Carrie’s bureau (the Temptations and John Coltrane’s “Newport ’63”).
Source: newyorker.com