‘Homeland’ Showrunner Teases No ‘Trump Parallels’ in Final Season

“We’re going to start fresh in Season 8 and probably do a fairly big time jump,” Alex Gansa says

Homeland Claire Danes
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Donald Trump may not be out of the Oval Office, but he’s on his way out of Alex Gansa’s inspiration for “Homeland” scripts.

The showrunner behind the critically-acclaimed Showtime series says that the allegories he’s been packing the drama with are out for the eighth — and most likely final — season.

“We’re going to start fresh in Season 8 and probably do a fairly big time jump between 7 and 8 and put any Trump parallels behind us,” Gansa told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Thursday. “We’ll tell a very contained story, hopefully in Israel.”

OK, so while lead Claire Danes spilled the beans Wednesday about the eighth installment being “Homeland”s last and Showtime said in a statement to TheWrap yesterday it “has not made a decision beyond Season 8,” it looks like Gansa is operating as if it is the end.

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