'Homeland' exec reveals Carrie, Brody season two details
Published Jul 4 2012, 20:15 BST | By Paul Millar
Homeland's executive producer Alex Gansa has revealed the fate of Carrie and Brody at the start of season two.During season one's climax 'Marine One', CIA analyst Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) was given electroshock therapy in an attempt to deal with her severe bipolar disorder.
© Channel 4 / Showtime
© Showtime
"Carrie has had, for the first time in her life, the benefit of professional help for her disease," Gansa told The Huffington Post. "She will have been in the psych ward for a while.
"She will have been in the care of a psychiatrist for six months. She will have undergone a series of these ECT therapies. [The treatment] is not just a one-off.
"So when we find her as the second season picks up, she will be in a place where she is centred and quiet and together in a way that we haven't seen her before."
Damian Lewis's character Brody, meanwhile, will be a congressman when the new season begins.
"His seat is vacated through a scandal, and he was appointed by the governor into that seat for a temporary period of time until the election," Gansa teased.
"He's not running. Well, he will be running, but he will be a sitting congressman serving in the House of Representatives when we open the season."
Revealing the on-screen time period between the seasons, Gansa added: "I can definitely tell you where the season starts - it's around half a year after the first season. We pick up the second season six months later."
Homeland returns to Showtime on September 30.
Watch Damian Lewis talking to Digital Spy about Homeland season two below:
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July 5th 2012 at 6:21pm(+1 like)
i loved it but the season finale was a big let down.
July 5th 2012 at 12:06pm
If they carry on with the yawn fest of the finale then i won't bother with it.
July 5th 2012 at 1:18am(+1 like)
First person I have seen call it that. Can't please everyone, but everyone else on here and critics seemed to love it.
July 5th 2012 at 6:07am
Ignore him he is probably one of the morons who watches films just for explosions.
July 5th 2012 at 9:15am(+1 like)
Yeah, someone who doesn't like something you do makes them a moron. When will they learn, eh?
July 5th 2012 at 10:25am(+2 likes)
Did i hit a nerve ArcticFox?
I love mud throwing from insecure little people when they have no reasonable way of debating a point.
July 5th 2012 at 3:30pm(+1 like)
And MeddlingMonkey, you should see the comment above mine, clearly you don't expand your entertainment media needs beyond Digital Spy.
July 5th 2012 at 3:31pm(+1 like)
ChimpanzeeThat is right, the finale was poor. For a series that showed such promise in its earlier episodes it vanished right up its back passage with shabby unrealistic plot development.
The amount of praise this series gets is shocking. People haven't a clue.
July 5th 2012 at 7:57pm(+1 like)
So excited for this!!
July 5th 2012 at 12:34am