“Homeland” Season 6 will not be back until 2017 though it is expected to air parallel to the governing political events in the US. And with that said, the word out is that the next season will see a new female commander-in-chief though not in the same person of Hilary Clinton.
The show will not align itself on whatever happens in the US elections. A female president-elect will be in focus for “Homeland” Season 6 and much of that was weighed into by Claire Danes.
Speaking to Variety in a Q&A, the star revealed how “Claire Mathison” will now be answering to a new head in the coming season.
According to Danes, the character will be “kind of a composite of all of the different candidates and a kind of – not rebellious necessarily – but she’s challenging norms and is a little threatening for that reason.”
In short, the female president-elect appearing for “Homeland” Season 6 will be someone that Mathison will be getting along with well.
Other than that, the setting for the season has also been set. As previously released by Showtime, the coming season will take place at “a strange, transitional time in the halls of government filled with anxiety and different competing interests, where a very fragile and complex transfer of power takes place between the outgoing president and the incoming president-elect.”
With that said, “Homeland” Season 6 will take place in a period (72 days) where the actual head of state is being educated to fully understand of what is at stake.
The key word here is the transition period as well as adjustment. Apparently the female president-elect will be someone that will be entering new territory and will rely on the people around her to get thing in order.
All of this should be built on in the coming months. “Homeland” Season 6 airs on January, 2017.
