'Homeland' to Tone Down the Terrorism in Season 6
Showtime's Homeland is heading into season 6, and its depiction of terrorism and its horrors have never been censored, so to speak. With the new season, however, heading back to home soil, and following a fifth season that critics noted was perhaps too close to current events, showrunner Alex Gansa seems prepared to change the formula a little.
"Last season, world events tragically caught up to the story we were telling. We knew we were going to New York and back to the United States. And didn’t want to dramatize any threats to the United States — and to New York specifically — that don’t actually exist. That was our first karmic principle this year. We’re not going to posit that there are vast ISIS or Al Qaeda cells or networks in the United States like there are in Europe, because according to all our intelligence officers, there aren’t any," Gansa said to EW.
"The threat we’re facing right now are these do-it-yourself self-radicalized individuals — and that’s a very different risk than another plot like 9/11. So we made a very conscious choice to not tell a ‘New York threatened by suitcase nuclear bomb’ story. We just weren’t going to do that. The thriller exists in a much more psychological way this year, and we’re curious to see how people respond to it."
Homeland looked as though it was headed to an early fate after a third season that was met with much criticism. Following that, the show found its feet again, and continues to march on as one of Showtime's top hits.
Source: Slashfilm
