'Homeland' takes a left turn? New season focuses on Muslim civil rights, female president-elect's CIA battles | Fox News
...The sixth season, which premiered on Sunday, features former CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) disillusioned by the war on terrorism and returning home to the United States with daughter Frannie to head up a non-profit in Brooklyn that defends American Muslims...
...Former "Homeland” fan, right wing icon Rush Limbaugh noticed the change, telling his radio audience on Jan. 16 that the show was previously driven by showing Mathison as "the number one warrior on the march trying to end militant Islamic terrorism … But … she now, in season six … runs a center to help people understand Islam and Muslims, and that they are not terrorists and that they are unfairly characterized and unfairly pursued … She's done a 180. She's joined forces with people who believe that pursuit is discriminatory and bigoted and racist.”
...Although showrunner and co-creator Alex Gansa said that the show’s writers work “incredibly hard” to make the series “politically agnostic,” it has always dealt with current events.
Promoting the new season, Gansa recently admitted to The Hollywood Reporter, "My first reaction [to Donald Trump's win] was, 'Oh my god, we are now counterfactual to the point of being irrelevant.'
"I think the election result was as much of a shock to us as it was to the rest of the country. To say that we took it calmly would be a complete lie," Gansa said.
But Gansa concluded that "’Homeland,’ after all, is fiction … So we just stuck to our guns."
...The sixth season, which premiered on Sunday, features former CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) disillusioned by the war on terrorism and returning home to the United States with daughter Frannie to head up a non-profit in Brooklyn that defends American Muslims...
...Former "Homeland” fan, right wing icon Rush Limbaugh noticed the change, telling his radio audience on Jan. 16 that the show was previously driven by showing Mathison as "the number one warrior on the march trying to end militant Islamic terrorism … But … she now, in season six … runs a center to help people understand Islam and Muslims, and that they are not terrorists and that they are unfairly characterized and unfairly pursued … She's done a 180. She's joined forces with people who believe that pursuit is discriminatory and bigoted and racist.”
...Although showrunner and co-creator Alex Gansa said that the show’s writers work “incredibly hard” to make the series “politically agnostic,” it has always dealt with current events.
Promoting the new season, Gansa recently admitted to The Hollywood Reporter, "My first reaction [to Donald Trump's win] was, 'Oh my god, we are now counterfactual to the point of being irrelevant.'
"I think the election result was as much of a shock to us as it was to the rest of the country. To say that we took it calmly would be a complete lie," Gansa said.
But Gansa concluded that "’Homeland,’ after all, is fiction … So we just stuck to our guns."
