Only this years trip, prepping for their seventh and penultimate season, was different.
Because this was Trump Administration Year One.
Maybe weve gotten used to it.
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But at the time things seemed so not normal.
When youre facingthatkind of uncertainty its difficult to parallel in ourHomelandworld.
It felt much scarier in real life than what we were writing.
Its the situation the country finds itself in and as storytellers what we find ourselves in.
Were telling a bit of a parallel story to whats happening in the real world, Gansa says.
Theres a degree of paranoia inside the Oval Office.
Its an interesting clash of forces.
There are influences all over the place, butHomelandis all still aiming to be an entertaining thriller.
We always hope to be relevant, Gansa says.
A lot of the issues we bring up this season hopefully have some relevance to the real world.
But were fiction and the story were telling is contained within our own narrative.
Were really not trying to be prescient or comment too directly on whats happening in the world.
Homelandreturns to Showtime on Feb. 11.
