A CIA officer becomes sure a rescued American prisoner has been turned, and nobody sees him the same way twice. The story said Washington, Caracas and Islamabad; the crew stood in Raleigh, San Juan and Cape Town. Read the plates
Claire Danes in New York in April 2012, between the first and second seasons. David Shankbone · CC BY 3.0Damian Lewis at the BAFTAs in London, February 2013, between the second and third seasons (cropped). Sean Reynolds · CC BY 2.0
The Peabody’s word for it
Read the plates.
When Homeland won a Peabody in 2012, the citation called it a Rorschach test: everyone sees something different. The places were read the same way. Each plate carries what the story saw. Drop ink three times and the real place comes up through the blot.
Where we read it
The Peabody Awards recognised the series in April 2012, calling it, among other things, a Rorschach test of post-9/11 doubts, fears and suspicions.
The story saw The US Capitol, as Carrie testifies to Congress
Eight plates. Each says what the story saw. Drop ink and see what was there.
The North Carolina State Capitol on Union Square, Raleigh, 2022. DiscoA340 · CC BY-SA 4.0
1 East Edenton Street, Union Square, Raleigh
North Carolina State Capitol
Still under the ink. Read its plate to open it.
Where we read it
North Carolina Historic Sites
North Carolina State Capitol
Union Square, Raleigh
The capitol whose exterior played Congress in the season-three premiere. Open weekdays 9am to 5pm and Saturdays 10am to 5pm; free, with free guided tours on Saturdays and no booking needed.
Live marketplace results for walks round uptown Charlotte and its neighbourhoods. None is built round the series; check each route for East Trade Street and Dilworth.
Plate VIII reads Berlin, and it is. Four seasons give no stand-in to read: two were made where they were set, and two borrowed countries the sources never narrow to a city.
Season 2
Beirut → Israel
Israeli cities stood in for Beirut for two weeks in May 2012; the sources do not name them.
Season 5
Berlin = Berlin
Set in Berlin, made in Berlin and at Studio Babelsberg next door in Potsdam.
Season 6
New York = New York
Carrie lives in Brooklyn, and the season was filmed in New York, with Morocco playing Abu Dhabi and Israel.
Season 8
Kabul → Morocco
Morocco played Afghanistan for the final season; no single city is named.
Where we read it
Season 2: Israeli cities stood in for Beirut for two weeks in May 2012; the sources do not name them.
A story set somewhere else still says something about the real place. Three of them replied.
Beirut · 2012
Season two’s Beirut, Hamra Street included, was filmed in Israel.
Where we read it
Season two’s Beirut, Hamra Street included, was filmed in Israel. Lebanon’s tourism minister, Fadi Abboud, said he would take legal action over how Hamra Street was shown. He called Beirut one of the most secure capitals in the world, and protested that it was filmed in Israel.
Season four’s Islamabad was filmed in Cape Town. Pakistan’s embassy said the show maligned a close US ally. Another official described a quiet, picturesque city of mountains and greenery.
Season five built a refugee camp on the Lebanon–Syria border and hired three artists to add Arabic graffiti for authenticity.
Where we read it
Season five built a refugee camp on the Lebanon–Syria border and hired three artists to add Arabic graffiti for authenticity. The artists wrote slogans accusing the show of racism, and they went out on air in the episode The Tradition of Hospitality.
Gideon Raff’s Hatufim, abductees in Hebrew, follows soldiers coming home after seventeen years held captive. Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa turned it into Homeland, and Raff stayed on as an executive producer. Press each card to see what the American series made of it.
Claire Danes in New York in April 2012, between the first and second seasons. David Shankbone · CC BY 3.0Claire DanesCarrie Mathison · 2012
Damian Lewis at the BAFTAs in London, February 2013, between the second and third seasons (cropped). Sean Reynolds · CC BY 2.0Damian LewisNicholas Brody · 2013
Mandy Patinkin in January 2012, during the first season’s run. User:Bearian · CC BY-SA 3.0Mandy PatinkinSaul Berenson · 2012
Rupert Friend in Toronto in September 2013, during the third season. Emeline motocross · CC BY-SA 3.0Rupert FriendPeter Quinn · 2013
Carrie
The writers gave Carrie Mathison bipolar disorder, diagnosed when she was at college. Claire Danes prepared by learning about the CIA and about the nuances of playing someone who lives with the condition. She was given access to CIA headquarters at Langley and met the officer the character was loosely based on.
Danes won the Emmy for lead actress in a drama twice; Damian Lewis won it for lead actor once.
Where we read it
Carrie’s diagnosis; Danes’s preparation, her visit to Langley and the officer the character was loosely based on.
Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa accept Homeland’s Peabody Award in New York, May 2012. Peabody Awards · CC BY 2.0
Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa developed the series from Gideon Raff’s original in early 2010. Showtime aired it from 2 October 2011 to 26 April 2020. It won a Peabody Award in 2012, the Golden Globe for best drama for its first two seasons, and the 2012 Emmy for outstanding drama.
Where we read it
Developers, premiere and finale dates, the Peabody, the Golden Globes and the Emmy.
13 places you can visit: 6 in the Carolinas, 5 overseas and 2 in Virginia. The Brody family house is not on the map: it is a private home.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working airport. The atrium and its rocking chairs are past security, so you need a flight to sit in them.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working hotel on East Trade Street in uptown Charlotte.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working campus in Myers Park. The front on Selwyn Avenue is the view; check before walking the grounds.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public park round a lake, with paved trails, about three miles from uptown.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open weekdays 9am to 5pm and Saturdays 10am to 5pm; admission is free, with free guided tours on Saturdays.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working court a block south of the Capitol. The front on Morgan Street is the view.
1The atrium at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, 2017. SunDawn · CC BY-SA 4.0
West Charlotte, about six miles from uptown
Charlotte Douglas International Airport
The airport is one of the Charlotte places the series filmed.
A working airport. The atrium and its rocking chairs are past security, so you need a flight to sit in them.
Where we read it
2The Ritz-Carlton on East Trade Street, uptown Charlotte, 2017. Jt12081988 · CC BY-SA 4.0
201 East Trade Street, uptown Charlotte
The Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte
The Ritz-Carlton is one of the Charlotte places the series filmed.
A working hotel on East Trade Street in uptown Charlotte.
Where we read it
3The front entrance of Queens University of Charlotte on Selwyn Avenue, 2017. Tylerlately · CC BY-SA 4.0
1900 Selwyn Avenue, Myers Park
Queens University of Charlotte
Queens University played the college of the Brodys’ daughter.
A working campus in Myers Park. The front on Selwyn Avenue is the view; check before walking the grounds.
Where we read it
4Freedom Park, Charlotte, on the lake, 2008. James Willamor · CC BY-SA 3.0
1900 East Boulevard, between Dilworth and Myers Park
Freedom Park
Visit North Carolina names Freedom Park among the Charlotte locations that appealed to the producers.
A public park round a lake, with paved trails, about three miles from uptown.
Where we read it
5The North Carolina State Capitol on Union Square, Raleigh, 2022. DiscoA340 · CC BY-SA 4.0
1 East Edenton Street, Union Square, Raleigh
North Carolina State Capitol
It was used in the season-three premiere, in the scenes of Carrie testifying before Congress.
Open weekdays 9am to 5pm and Saturdays 10am to 5pm; admission is free, with free guided tours on Saturdays.
Where we read it
6Photograph withheld pending rights review
2 East Morgan Street, Raleigh
North Carolina Supreme Court
Its interiors stood in for the congressional hearing in the season-three premiere.
A working court a block south of the Capitol. The front on Morgan Street is the view.
Where we read it
Stay
A bed nearby.
The Richmond hotel that is one of the season-seven locations.
The Jefferson Hotel
The Jefferson Hotel
Downtown Richmond
The 1895 hotel at 101 West Franklin Street, Richmond, a notable season-seven location. Rates are on the booking page.
The Raleigh capitol where the hearing was shot, and walks through Charlotte, Cape Town and Old San Juan.
North Carolina Historic Sites
North Carolina State Capitol
Union Square, Raleigh
The capitol whose exterior played Congress in the season-three premiere. Open weekdays 9am to 5pm and Saturdays 10am to 5pm; free, with free guided tours on Saturdays and no booking needed.
Live marketplace results for walks round uptown Charlotte and its neighbourhoods. None is built round the series; check each route for East Trade Street and Dilworth.
Dates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
The plate box
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
13 of 13 places · 13 of 13 Moments
Charlotte Douglas International Airport
West Charlotte, about six miles from uptown
Charlotte for Washington
Charlotte’s airport, one of the city’s places in the series.
The Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte
201 East Trade Street, uptown Charlotte
Uptown
The Ritz-Carlton on East Trade Street, on the Charlotte list.
Queens University of Charlotte
1900 Selwyn Avenue, Myers Park
The college
Queens University plays the Brody daughter’s college.
Freedom Park
1900 East Boulevard, between Dilworth and Myers Park
A park by the lake
Freedom Park, one of the Charlotte places the producers used.
North Carolina State Capitol
1 East Edenton Street, Union Square, Raleigh
The hearing, outside
The Capitol’s exterior in the premiere’s congressional testimony.
North Carolina Supreme Court
2 East Morgan Street, Raleigh
The hearing, inside
The court interiors play the room where Carrie testifies to Congress.
Old San Juan
Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico
Caracas
Old San Juan stands in for Caracas.
Artscape Theatre Centre
Jan Smuts Street, the Foreshore, Cape Town
The embassy
The Artscape complex becomes the US Embassy in Islamabad.
Darling Street
Darling Street, Cape Town city centre
Islamabad
Darling Street is dressed as Islamabad.
St George’s Cathedral
Wale Street and Government Avenue, Cape Town
A Virginia funeral
A funeral in the cathedral, with Virginia plates on the cars outside.
Studio Babelsberg
Babelsberg Süd, Potsdam
Berlin as Berlin
Season five is set in Berlin and made there and at Babelsberg.
The Jefferson Hotel
101 West Franklin Street, Richmond
Richmond for Washington
The Jefferson, a notable season-seven location.
Virginia State Capitol
1000 Bank Street, Capitol Square, Richmond
A capitol for a capital
The State Capitol, a notable season-seven location.
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