“You can keep refolding the paper, and it can take a different shape.”Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison and Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody in “Homeland.” (Kent Smith / Showtime)‘Insane enthusiasm’Even at the outset, the shape of “Homeland” was far from certain. (“I got the script and I went into pure panic, because it was 40 pages in one room,” says the episode’s director, “Homeland” executive producer Lesli Linka Glatter.) Both Gansa and Johannessen say that the conclave was crucial to the next stage of the series’ evolution. AdvertisementAt the start of the fourth season, Carrie, now the CIA station chief in Kabul, Afghanistan, green-lights a strike on a Pakistani wedding, killing dozens of civilians but not her intended target, Taliban leader Haissam Haqqani. “The biggest triumph of the show, apart from the first season, was the fourth season,” Gansa says.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 07, 2020 20:37 UTC