will be as interesting and compelling and as crazy as the stuff we are seeing in real life. so how do writers stay ahead of the curve? for the cocreator and the rest of the team at homeland, it s a retreat to the nation s capital to meet with top intelligence officials. we go every year for four days or so to washington and it is a bit of a boot camp because it is a train of experts coming in and telling us and answering the questions, what are they afraid of. what keeps them up at night. we got a major lesson. the scope and scale was bigger than that. that felt like a ripe story to tell. in real life, moscow meddled in the election. in homeland, russians infiltrated the white house. simone is an agent of the russian government. what? in the real white house,
it s the fictional president-elect on show time s hits by thriller homeland. show runner alex gonza said last season was based solely on trump winning the election. it became undeniable that that s the story we would tell. what does a newly elected president do when faced with a country completely divided? trump flipped a switch. scripted dramas have been reimagined. we are trying to make sense of what s happening. you really do get to react to what you are seeing. i call on the media to do their jobs and check their faxes. homeland, you felt like you could feel the sweat of trying to keep up with and stay current. seemingly impossible for tv dram as these days. citizens can t tell the difference between fact and fiction, the project of civilization turns to dust.
trump shuffle and reshuffled his staff. trump fired james comey. on the show, the president acts to retire the cabinet. is this even legal? it is unprecedented, but the president can dismiss cabinet members at any time for any reason. when are a real life expose made headlines, a string of fictional plot lines about the removal of a u.s. president followed. right after the election, one of the most googled questions was what is the 25th amendment. they are wondering how that might happen with this instance with president trump. this is fascinating. let s dramatize this. viewers got a crash course in the 25th amendment, the mechanism for removing a president from office. in both madam secretary. sir, you have been removed from office. and homeland. explain to me how you use the
a week and a half into shooting the pilot, trump won. we went back and started over again. in the trump era, last minute script changes are the new reality for scripted tv. we will see what we will see. there is this impulse to be relevant and comment on what s going on. alex gonza is the cocreator of homeland. when a story breaks, do you talk about how to make it part of the show? it s the first thing we discuss every morning, especially now when the news cycle is so crazy. breaking news, defending putin. a stunning shake-up at the white house. is this something to the story? a porn star and a staff departure, just another day in the trump white house. we were all utterly blown away and trying to adapt to trump s america. eileen jacob. is it fair to say hollywood is a hub of the so-called resistance? it s no secret that hollywood