Homeland Season 6: "Fair Game"

Posted: January 16th, 2017

By Michael Sulick

Michael Sulick is the former director of CIA’s National Clandestine Service and is currently a consultant on counterintelligence and global risk assessment. Sulick also served as Chief of Counterintelligence and Chief of the Central Eurasia Division where he was responsible for intelligence collection operations and foreign liaison relationships in Russia, Eastern Europe and the former republics of the Soviet Union. He is the author of Spying in America: Espionage From the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War and American Spies: Espionage Against the United States from the Cold War to the Present.

After globetrotting the past few years, Homeland returns to the United States. All the season’s events take place in New York City, site of one of the catastrophic attacks that sparked the war on terrorism, which suggests that Season 6 will examine the impact of that war on the characters and on American society at large. Topical as in the past, the new season of Homeland features an incoming President, a tense transition involving the CIA, and a complicated case of a young Muslim American accused of supporting terrorism.

The major characters from past seasons are back, though their lives have changed dramatically. The show’s heroine, Carrie Mathison, feverishly rained death from the skies with drone strikes on Islamic terrorists in her CIA days. Now, in a complete reversal, Carrie is committed to preventing the “demonization and harassment” of the Muslim community and works for a foundation that provides counseling and legal aid to Muslims in the U.S.

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