I won't try and summarize all that has happened throughout all the seasons, but will only write enough to bring you up to speed about the main character, Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, who in the latest season is head of her own intelligence group trying to save the United States from something. Russians, likely.
Carries, as most by now know, is bipolar, and given to bouts of hypomania. The latest bout is being treated by her self-medication with all the right drugs that can be bought out of the trunk of a car (discount for frequent buyers). She is doing this rather than taking the physician prescribed medicine because that leaves her zonked out for days. And a series that just shows Carrie tossing and turning in her sleep under the covers is no series at all.
In the latest episode, Carrie has rounded up the gang of covert operatives that she used to work with when she was in Kabul with the C.I.A. It became obvious Carrie was going to do this when she showed up at Draft Pick No. 1's mobile home wearing a black leather jacket, pulled a Heineken from the guy's cooler and sat back and took a few good swigs straight from the bottle. A beer guzzling operative is one you want to work with.
Most of the latest episode revolves around Carrie and her guys using enough electronic equipment to influence a Russian election, if only Russian elections had two candidates.
How Carrie bankrolls this op is not known, since she is unemployed and has perhaps $50,000 in credit card debt with no wiggle room left to charge anymore. She is living with her young daughter Franny at the home of her pediatrician sister. The only daytime TV Carries watches is that of the surveillance feed from the president's Chief of Staff's home, a feed engineered by Carrie and one of her operatives, Max. Carries thinks something is up with David Wellington, and not just his greeting for his girlfriend, a possible French woman of unknown origin.
A concurrent narrative running through the latest episode is how president Elizabeth Keane is dealing with the aftermath of a massacre between the heavily armed F.B.I. and the heavily armed right-wing separatists. The stand-off and subsequent mammoth shootout resulted when the right-wing radio host refused to surrender to authorities and instead took refuge at a sympathizer's home in rural Virginia.
Saul Berenson, the bearded, baritone voiced National Security Advisor is informing President Keane that the Russians are manipulating the news through social media. The good news here for Trump fans is that even with a female president the Russians are poking their disinformation campaigns into America's social media platforms. The president has her hands full.
It is easy to see the scriptwriters are reading the newspapers and watching the television.news shows. As my son-in-law has so astutely remarked: "It has to be easier to create fiction when you are using actual events."
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