‘Homeland’ Season 6: Brody Question Will Be Addressed — Spoilers | TVLine 

‘s upcoming sixth season (bowing Jan. 15 on Showtime), but his late alter ego Brody will play a somewhat pivotal role in at least one episode.

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As executive producer Chip Johannessen explains to TVLine, the decision to age Carrie and Brody’s daughter Frannie (now played by 4-year-old twins Claire and McKenna Keane) has allowed the show to explore a certain inevitable Daddy issue.

“One thing that surfaces this season is the question of who her father was,” the EP reveals. “I actually just got done writing a scene for Episode 9 that serves as kind of a follow-up to a monologue [Carrie delivered to Frannie] in Season 4, in which she got her up to speed on who her father was.”

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With Carrie back in the States (New York, to be exact), her “role as a mother — and possibly as a

mother — is a little more front and center,” adds Johannessen. “Last season, it was easy for her to put Frannie on a plane and get her out of [Berlin].”

And although Carrie will continue to struggle with motherhood, Johannessen assures us that Carrie no longer harbors fantasies of drowning Frannie in a bathtub. “I wrote that [infamous Season 4] episode, but [the writing team] breaks all the stories together, and [the bathtub scene] was someone else’s idea,” he says with a laugh. “I ended up getting a lot of flak for that.”

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The fact that Brody still haunts this show, three seasons after his death, is hilarious.

Gansa will never let go of this, it’s not like he was a celebarated character by season 3 most viewers hated him and every tv critic wanted him gone. last season was the picture, yuck. no one wants him, just Quarrie. Quinn found out about the kid before Brody, he’s the dad.

True enough on the critics, but to suggest most viewers hated him? Haha. Not even close. I think what you mean is ‘most viewers who nerd it up on the Internet. talking about TV on a critical level’. But I assure you there were a ton of viewers who were big fans of Brody.

This. I actually lost interest and stopped watching after Brody died. Idk I feel like he was the whole premise of the show and they did a terrible job with him. So if they messed that up i figured who knew what else they would screw up.

s3 brody arc was ridiculous. no one wanted to prolong his stay and his family drama.

Noooooo! I gave up before season two and only came back and got caught up because the Brody drama was done. Let pretend she was dropped off by storkes. Season four was the best season so far in my opinion because it got away from that drama and truly became a powerful mystery thriller. The show is best when it’s focused on Carrie, Saul and Quinn. Praying season 6 goes back to that.

Time for Quinn to be the Dad to Brody’s spawn. Franny’s better off with Carrie and Quinn. He’s always cared about the kid since Season 3.

I know this show wants to act like the brody family does not exist anymore becasue of flak their season got but I really wish they would at least bring them into this storyline, or a mention of what they’re up to

I wasn’t a fan of the Carrie/Brody storyline past the second half of season 2, and I don’t like Carrie and Quinn being paired either. Homeland is my favorite show, but the relationship drama is not its strongest quality.

Who gives a sh*t about Brody. Let it go Homeland. Can Carrie, Quinn and Saul please go back to the CIA already!

Homeland should do everything it can to get Diego Klattenhoff back. The Blacklist sucks and is going to get cancelled and he should come back to Homeland. He’s a great actor and underused on Blacklist. Time for him to shine. Time for his fans, who have been patiently dealing with the Blacklist and all it’s problems, to be rewarded with him getting a deserving role and not being put on the back-burner to push some spin-off that will be an epic fail.

Showtime better end Homeland after eight seasons which the network haven’t even announced since the renewal. So many unanswered questions about who’s the father of Frannie now that Brody is gone after Season Three ended and I’m not sure whether or not Carrie is a “bad mother” since the whole drowning of her baby fiasco.

I love Quinn and Carrie. Actually I just love Quinn!

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