Though many fans were happy to see Shaun Toub, the show’s Machiavellian Iranian intelligence chief Majid Javadi, return to the Showtime drama’s sixth season, his presence is not without its consequences. In his heydey of Season 3, Javadi proved he would do “any and everything to survive,” Toub told TheWrap of his character.

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.