Homeland EP Talks Season Finale, Emmy Bid Damian Lewis Return. SPOILER ALERT This story contains details of tonights Season 6 finale of Showtimes Homeland. We really hope that this years finale sets up the final progression of this series,Homeland showrunner Alex Gansa says of the tonights upcoming Season 6 ender on Showtime. Shocked is always a good emotion to evoke as well, so I guess I would hope they would be shocked as well, the circumspect EP adds of an extremely germane season of the Claire Danes led series that has seen a President elect warring with the U. S. intelligence community along with the proliferation of fake news and other online information weaponization, among other ties to the real world. With two final seasons left in the Emmy winning series based on the Israeli show Prisoners Of War and the stakes ratcheted up, details of Sundays Season 6 finale titled America First are being keep quiet by Gansa, Showtime and Fox 2. Television Studios. However, with Homeland back on U. S. soil for the first time in many years and Danes Carrie Mathison no longer formally connected with a CIA and permanent government that seems intent on taking down President elect Elizabeth Keane, it is pretty clear the series intends to go out large this weekend. Part of that finale will have to focus on Rupert Friends performance as damaged assassin Peter Quinn, who was essentially left for dead last season Mandy Patinkins ex acting CIA director and potential scapegoat Saul Berenson and the scheming and ruthless agency official Dar Adal, played by F. Murray Abraham. Under the umbrella of all that, Gansa chatted with me about Emmy hopes for Friend, revamping the series for the Presidency of Donald Trump, and what was deliberately left out of Season 6. The EP also teased Sundays finale, its role in setting up the final two seasons and whether Damien Lewis Nicholas Brody could return to Homeland. DEADLINE You guys are keeping your finale under tighter lock and key than most classified information in real life Washington nowadays. But can you break some protocol and tell us what we should look out for in Sundays Season 6 enderGANSA I think first and foremost you have to look at the Peter Quinn Carrie Mathison relationship. That was the first dramatic scene of this season, Carrie and Quinn together in that VA hospital. In large part, that has functioned as the emotional center of Season 6. One can expect that that relationship is going to come to some head in the finale, because that was the first and foremost idea we came into this season with so theres that on the table. There is also how the show plans to dispatch this seasons villain, and this seasons villain is the deep state, that permanent government led by Dar Adal in collusion with Senator Elian Coto and with General Jamie Mc. DObcn-sNZ2s/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Showtime Full I Am Potential Online Free' title='Showtime Full I Am Potential Online Free' />Clendon. These people have been conspiring to first persuade a President elect to change her mind about her policies, and then try to coerce her to change her mind about her policies. Now it looks like they may try to kill her in an attempt to change her policies. So that story is coming to a head and will be resolved one way or another in the finale. Then finally, Saul Berenson and where he fits in. A man who has served as the moral conscience of the CIA in our storyline in what way does he come to terms with his own agency and its checkered past and its current troublesWatch Today Show Online Watch full length episodes, video clips, highlights and more. 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We wrote the right part, we cast the right guy, and he came on in a bit of a minor role in Season 2 and he worked his way into the audiences heart. We feathered in his character in more or less an incidental way at the beginning I think we were able to catch people by surprise as he grew into his own over the time. Good Eats Full Episodes Stream here. So, by the time Season 6 started he became a real force on the show, and one that a lot of people tuned into because he was on the show and that reason only. DEADLINE Which puts Emmy consideration in the cardsGANSA Yes, but we are not putting him up as a supporting actor. We are putting Rupert up for Emmy consideration as a lead actor, the first time weve done that since Damians left the show. I really believe his performance warrants that, and not just his performance, but the fact that he carried so much of the emotional baggage of the season and did it in a way that was electric. It was a bit of a revelation to all of us who watched him, largely because he was so transformed as a character. DEADLINE Which then makes me wonder if you are considering bring Damiens Brody back in some form flashback or otherwise for the final two seasonsGANSA Thats always a possibility. I think Brody was such an important part of Carries past that it might be worth exploring in some way, shape or form. But honestly, I think Carrie, as a character, has moved past that. In a lot of ways she was much more nave and innocent in that period of her life, and I think shes really matured into a woman now. There was something a little girlish about Carrie in the first couple of seasons and she really has become a young woman. I think for that reason Brody will remain in the rear view, probably. DEADLINE Speaking of rear view, the whole season seemed transformative this as you started out in the vein of The Night Of, then went Rear Window and have ended up close to Day Of The Condor or The Parallax View. Thats a lot of movement did it feel like too much from your perspective GANSA First, I will say those are three very nice things to be compared to, Dominic, I will say. I love every single one of those pieces of work. Now, yes, seasons do have movements, and this one definitely did take place in three movements and they do have their own separate tones. Interestingly enough, the last movement we really began to write after the election of Donald Trump, which gave it its own particular flavor. DEADLINE That seems clear, but looking forward a short distance, I know you are in a spoiler free zone, but what do you think Homeland fans are going to take away from Sundays finaleGANSA I hope they feel one thing more than all, and that is, I want to see next season. Thats the purpose of the finale. We really hope that this years finale sets up the final progression of this series. That is, Seasons 7 and 8, which we hope to tell as one story, and the finale of this season really hopefully tease that up. Shocked is always a good emotion to evoke as well, so I guess I would hope they would be shocked as well. DEADLINE Looking forward even more, how far along are you in planning out the final two seasons and the conclusion of the Homeland story on Showtime GANSA We have some big ideas but we are just at the very beginning of that process. We dont really even know where were going to be shooting the last two seasons. We dont know what story were going to be telling, whether were going to be telling a Russian story or an Israeli story or an American story.