‘Homeland’ Season 5: Synopsis for premiere episode released

As the danger intensifies, and without Saul and Quinn to rely on, one thing becomes clear: “she’s never been at greater risk or with more to lose”. Apparently, Carrie will also have a new love interest in the new season.

The fifth season of Showtime’s counter-terrorism drama Homeland will receive its United Kingdom premiere on Channel 4 on Sunday October 11th at 9pm, it has been announced. She’s got her daughter, now a toddler, with her, and she’s dating a handsome German journalist, the three of them living poshly and seemingly safely in a nice house. Although she was deemed as an irresponsible mother from the last scene of Frannie almost drowning in a bath tub, Carrie is shown in a different light of a caring mother as she involves herself in her daughter’s biking, hosting a party for her friends, and tucking her into bed. Gone are Carrie’s “drone queen” days, as she attempts to trade a life of finger-on-the-button tension with something more conducive to mental health. Soon Carrie finds herself pulled back into the world’s hot spots and forced to make dubious choices she thought she left behind.

Season five will once again comprise 12 episodes.

After all that she has experienced, Carrie will be seeking a higher power when the series returns this Sunday. Carrie works best as a lone Jeanne d’Arc, a solitary Cassandra, propelled by her feverish visions into the dark. Carrie is a great invention of a character, and setting her loose in new systems has yielded compelling results. This season might show us a Carrie more beleagured than in previous seasons. Despite a memorable yet drug-induced hallucination in season four, during which Carrie imagined Brody spooning her on the floor, the former marine remains dead. Islamic extremism is certainly a part of the narrative (so far, anyway), but there are other actors in play this season, too.