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Homeland season 8: Everything you need to know
The fate of Homeland is proving to be as difficult to predict as the show's own twisty-turny plots. An eighth season has been greenlit, but will it be Carrie Mathison's final outing?
Here's all the latest intel.
Homeland season 8 plot: what can we expect?
Homeland's seventh season finale, 'Paean to the People', saw Carrie captured by Russian national Yevgeny Gromov. When she's released as part of a prisoner exchage seven months later, Carrie is barely lucid - having had her medication witheld - and seems to not even recognise Saul.
Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) also opted to resign the presidency, deciding that the tumultous events of her administration had left the American people unable to trust her.
According to showrunner Alex Gansa, Homeland's seventh and eighth seasons were originally planned to be very closely tied together – telling essentially one story. "Barring unforeseen world events, we do really hope to go abroad for the last two seasons and to end the story there," he said in early 2017.
While the seventh season remained on home turf, the plan is still to head abroad for season eight, with a significant time jump between the two seasons.
"We get to play this last season in DC with the intention of taking us overseas for one last chapter," Gansa said. "Season eight will be overseas somewhere.
"We get to play a story with larger national stakes in season 7 and we'll go back to a smaller intelligence-based season in 8. We get to pull out all the stops this year and then get to the emotional heart of things in season 8."
Gansa had previously hinted at a circular narrative, with season eight going back to where it all began. "This show began in Israel [as Prisoners of War/Hatufim], and there's something poetic about going back to that part of the world in the show," he said.
"So we've been thinking, just in a thematic way, that it might be nice to end the show set in Israel.
Homeland season 8: Is it the final season?
A mystery that even Carrie might struggle to unravel.
As early as 2016, before the seventh season had even aired, Gansa was insisting that Homeland would be "done" after season eight.
"It's definitely going to be my last year," he insisted. "I can't speak for Claire [Danes] or Mandy [Patinkin], but it will be my final year and it will be designed to be the end of an eight-season story.
"If Showtime, Fox, Claire and Mandy want to take the show further that's their decision, and we would leave some room for that to happen – if there's an appetite."
He later explained that seeds for the show's ultimate ending had already been sown in previous seasons, with Danes apparently confirming that she too would be done with the series after eight years.
"Yeah, that's it," she said, adding that she felt "conflicted" about finally leaving Carrie behind.
But then, in June 2018, Danes backtracked on her earlier comments, saying only that Homeland's future is "totally uncertain".
"It's not unequivocally conclusive," she said. "We'll see. As I said, it's the kind of show that could continue going on indefinitely because it's a strange model. It's an unusual model. It can mutate in ways a lot of shows can't. "
Stay tuned...
Homeland season 8 trailer: When will we see it?
Homeland tends to keep its cards close to its chest, so don't expect to see anything until around a month before season eight lands.
Speaking of air dates, when should we expect to see season eight? Glad you asked!
Homeland season 8 release date: When will it be on?
While the first five seasons all launched in September-October, the last two seasons of Homeland have premiered early in the year. If the eighth follows suit, we can expect it in January-February 2020.
Homeland season eight cast: Who will be in it?
Dead certs for the new episodes are Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison and Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson, the heart and soul of Homeland.
Other possibilities include... F. Murray Abraham as Dar Adal (behind bars, but still very much alive), Elizabeth Marvel as Elizabeth Keane, Maury Sterling as Max Piotrowski, Linus Roache as David Wellington (White House Chief of Staff), and Jake Weber as right-wing media personality Brett O'Keefe.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/homeland-season-8-everything-you-need-to-know/ar-AAEsQcw?ocid=spartanntp
The fate of Homeland is proving to be as difficult to predict as the show's own twisty-turny plots. An eighth season has been greenlit, but will it be Carrie Mathison's final outing?
Here's all the latest intel.
Homeland season 8 plot: what can we expect?
Homeland's seventh season finale, 'Paean to the People', saw Carrie captured by Russian national Yevgeny Gromov. When she's released as part of a prisoner exchage seven months later, Carrie is barely lucid - having had her medication witheld - and seems to not even recognise Saul.
Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) also opted to resign the presidency, deciding that the tumultous events of her administration had left the American people unable to trust her.
According to showrunner Alex Gansa, Homeland's seventh and eighth seasons were originally planned to be very closely tied together – telling essentially one story. "Barring unforeseen world events, we do really hope to go abroad for the last two seasons and to end the story there," he said in early 2017.
While the seventh season remained on home turf, the plan is still to head abroad for season eight, with a significant time jump between the two seasons.
"We get to play this last season in DC with the intention of taking us overseas for one last chapter," Gansa said. "Season eight will be overseas somewhere.
"We get to play a story with larger national stakes in season 7 and we'll go back to a smaller intelligence-based season in 8. We get to pull out all the stops this year and then get to the emotional heart of things in season 8."
Gansa had previously hinted at a circular narrative, with season eight going back to where it all began. "This show began in Israel [as Prisoners of War/Hatufim], and there's something poetic about going back to that part of the world in the show," he said.
"So we've been thinking, just in a thematic way, that it might be nice to end the show set in Israel.
Homeland season 8: Is it the final season?
A mystery that even Carrie might struggle to unravel.
As early as 2016, before the seventh season had even aired, Gansa was insisting that Homeland would be "done" after season eight.
"It's definitely going to be my last year," he insisted. "I can't speak for Claire [Danes] or Mandy [Patinkin], but it will be my final year and it will be designed to be the end of an eight-season story.
"If Showtime, Fox, Claire and Mandy want to take the show further that's their decision, and we would leave some room for that to happen – if there's an appetite."
He later explained that seeds for the show's ultimate ending had already been sown in previous seasons, with Danes apparently confirming that she too would be done with the series after eight years.
"Yeah, that's it," she said, adding that she felt "conflicted" about finally leaving Carrie behind.
But then, in June 2018, Danes backtracked on her earlier comments, saying only that Homeland's future is "totally uncertain".
"It's not unequivocally conclusive," she said. "We'll see. As I said, it's the kind of show that could continue going on indefinitely because it's a strange model. It's an unusual model. It can mutate in ways a lot of shows can't. "
Stay tuned...
Homeland season 8 trailer: When will we see it?
Homeland tends to keep its cards close to its chest, so don't expect to see anything until around a month before season eight lands.
Speaking of air dates, when should we expect to see season eight? Glad you asked!
Homeland season 8 release date: When will it be on?
While the first five seasons all launched in September-October, the last two seasons of Homeland have premiered early in the year. If the eighth follows suit, we can expect it in January-February 2020.
Homeland season eight cast: Who will be in it?
Dead certs for the new episodes are Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison and Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson, the heart and soul of Homeland.
Other possibilities include... F. Murray Abraham as Dar Adal (behind bars, but still very much alive), Elizabeth Marvel as Elizabeth Keane, Maury Sterling as Max Piotrowski, Linus Roache as David Wellington (White House Chief of Staff), and Jake Weber as right-wing media personality Brett O'Keefe.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/homeland-season-8-everything-you-need-to-know/ar-AAEsQcw?ocid=spartanntp