For Homeland to do what it does best, Carrie Mathison had to become Nicholas Brody in the show's eighth and final season
, co-creator and showrunner of the Showtime drama series, realized the storytelling path for the swan-song year as they were filming the closing scenes of Season 7. Claire Danes’ intrepid, bipolar CIA agent would come full circle by finding herself under suspicion of having become a brainwashed double-agent turned by the enemy — in this case, Russians — after she spent seven months in a spy-gulag during Season 7.
In the waning minutes of Season 7, a physically and emotionally battered Carrie is returned to her CIAmentor Saul Berenson as part of a prisoner exchange. As “Homeland’s” globe-trotting crew captured those scenes on location in Budapest in March 2018, Gansa had a revelation about the show’s ending. The fact had the show had the power to spark controversy and conversation is a testament to the nuanced work the Gansa has steered with a top-flight team of lieutenants over the seasons that includes executive producers Chip Johannessen, Lesli Linka Glatter, Meredith Stiehm and Alexander Cary. Gordon has come in and out of the show over the years as he also juggled other projects. Gansa and Gordon have worked on many shows, together and apart, but the “Homeland” experience has been sui generis.
“We weren’t prescient. We just heard this stuff before it became public,” Gansa says. “It was really remarkable and we have always extended a tremendous amount of gratitude to the people who opened up to us in Washington.” In reflecting on the show’s evolution, Gansa says he’s convinced that a big part of the reason why “Homeland” took off for Showtime was because of its timing. The premiere that came less than a month after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
For Gansa and Gordon, who started their careers as writing partners and formally reunited last year under an overall deal at Sony Pictures Television, “Homeland” is sure to be a high-water mark no matter what the future brings.
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