Sound familiar? Homeland is back in New York for season six with a President-Elect who’s hostile to the CIA as show makes allusions to Trump The Showtime series’ return to American soil for Season Six was a poorly kept secret and saw Carrie Matherson back in NYC , where she is now heading a nonprofit firm that defends Muslims against discrimination. It’s set in a time period between a presidential election and the inauguration and focuses on the counter-terrorism efforts in New York nearly two decades after 9/11.