"Homeland" Season 5 comes back on the air this October with a new cast of characters in Carrie Mathison's new life. The new stable environment for the volatile lead will eventually suffer when Carrie's old life comes to haunt her again.
Lead star Claire Danes revealed in a media interview that the new season will show a different Carrie who has had a life with friends, a child, and a relationship in the years following the setting of the previous season.
"We've never really seen her to be relatively normal and social. (But) I'm sure that will be completely ruined two episodes in," teased Danes.
E News reports that a casting call has been made for an older daughter for Carrie and Brody as baby Frannie will be three years old when the new episodes go on the air. Carrie is finally committed to her child and will have had years of being a mother.
A new love interest will also be showing up posing a challenge to Carrie. The new character will be an extremely intelligent lawyer who will be Carrie's intellectual equal.
In the last season the supposed "destined romance" between Carrie and Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend) fizzled off as she dumps him and he returns to work for the CIA. Design & Trend reports that executive producer Alex Gansa has not yet confirmed how much of Carrie and Quinn's involvement will be romantic and "arranged out of convenience."
An earlier TV Line interview quotes Gansa describing the show writers' dilemma on the two almost-lovers' connection, "How much is just that they recognize each other so well? How much is the desire for both of them to move on past this job that they do. Those are the questions that we're wrestling with. We wrestled with them last season. We're wrestling with them again."
Carrie will also have a new mentor, replacing Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) as the new father figure in her life. The season 4 finale showed the two friends arguing leading to an eventual rift as Carrie opts to leave the agency while Saul returns to work.
The official Showtime releases say that the former Islamabad Station Chief would be in Berlin on a self-imposed exile and will be working for a security firm instead of the CIA.
Showtime's "Homeland" Season 5 will be in production in Germany for the series and will start filming in June.
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