Executive producer of Homeland, Alex Gansa, has been waffling to the Huffington Post. This is what he had to say about his two protagonists six months on.
Of Carrie's bipolar and those electroshock treatments she started having at the end of series 1, he said: "Carrie has had, for the first time in her life, the benefit of professional help for her disease. 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 centered and quiet and together in a way that we haven't seen her before."
In other words, she probably doesn't remember what she was going to remember seconds before her first ECT session.
As for Brody and his bomb happy double agent ways, well, he'll be congressman: "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… 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."
Homeland returns to Showtime on September 30th. Which is great news if you live in America. It'll wing its way to Channel 4 at some point.
Season 3 of Homeland might be rather interesting given Claire Danes has just announced she's pregnant with her first child... In the meantime, here's a quick refresher of how Season 1 ended.
