Homecoming

These mysteries and more unfold carefully and engagingly under the watch of Esmail and writers Micah Bloomberg and Eli Horowitz. Questions are answ...

Homecoming is adapted from a podcast, and while its audio roots show, that’s a benefit – the conversations are very, very impo...

A full-beam Julia would have unbalanced this curiously compelling 10-part drama, though it remains precarious and unsettling… Square-hair Julia jus...

The amnesia thriller is an overworked genre, but sparkling performances and stylish mise-en-scène make this something worth coming home to.

Every episode of Homecoming, each crisp half-hour installment, is a compact exploitation film, spinning an anxious yarn about systematic abuse.

Faced with the challenge of justifying a return without Roberts, the filmmakers have mostly risen to the challenge. It’s like one of tho...

Whether the focus is Roberts' quiet, darkening subtlety, Whigham’s stony determination or Cannavale’s sleazy aggression, the performanc...

It brilliantly captures the essence of the military compound and Heidi’s place in it. And look out for a remarkable long tracking shot that b...

With its lean storytelling, contained plot, and focus on characters as opposed to power structures, it makes chaos feel manageable.

This is the best thing about Season 2 of Homecoming, in my opinion: pulling back the curtain on a scene in such a way that it, basic...

Inception engaged on a mainly intellectually level, but that isn’t to say that film didn’t pack an emotional impact.

This second season may not be as ambitious as the first, but it is very satisfying as a bingeable work of suspense.

Monáe proved in Hidden Figures that she’s not one to underestimate… But while things pick up pace in the show’s final episodes, the ser...

The result is a television series that’s frequently breathtaking.

As with Mr Robot, Homecoming is keenly subversive, and Esmail looks to produce maximum unease with his choices of shot.

"Homecoming" becomes gleefully angsty. The half-hour episodes fly by, pulsing with jittery excitement that borders on sensory overload.

A thriller that actually earns the word Hitchcockian with a second-half dynamic that alternately echoes Psycho and Vertigo.

The plot of both is interesting but not exceptional. It’s all the other crucial but often underplayed elements that make Homecoming so memora...

Homecoming is intriguing as a story, and the self-aware visuals and odd little touches that you’ll discover going forward are fun ...

There’s Roberts, who is superb (and always is).

Homecoming has too many strengths – and is a story too strikingly told – for its flaws to find real purchase.

Roberts starts to show her incredible range as a performer, turning her emotions on a dime and filling up the small screen with as much m...

This is [Julia Roberts'] first major television role, and I understand why she took it: It allows her to do the two things she does best ...

Executive producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge subverts every male-centered trope of espionage thrillers as Eve and the assassin play a deadly cat-an...

It’s a pleasure to see Roberts stretch her legs on TV, particularly in her scenes opposite James, where her heart is most evident. The t...

Homecoming takes dreamy confusion and injects it with vogue-ish paranoia. It is a twilight mirror, a black zone, deploying a Cold War mindset...

Homecoming’s visual ambition is complemented by its intellectual curiosity.

But the way it tricks its audience into siding with the wrong character is its best and most intriguing trick.

The whole theme of it is a sense of unease – making you feel slightly paranoid and uncomfortable. That’s the real joy.

Every serious conversational exchange lands with remarkable immediacy.

A truly exceptional series.

The Deuce is increasingly immersive, densely layered and intriguing all around – particularly when Gyllenhaal is on the screen.

A slow-burner that is worth the time. It needs a sedate pace to really make you feel the wrongness of the Homecoming facility, where every day...

For the most part, Esmail lets his superb cast tell the story of Heidi’s search for answers.

This is a very satisfyingly structured series indeed. And Julia Roberts is excellent. She’s undimmed from her glory days.

It’s dark, but in its way also fun – which is not necessarily to say funny – without straining to be, and suggests human feelings s...

Hugh Laurie’s turn as the misanthropic, wise-cracking doctor struggling with addiction has become an iconic television role.

It builds momentum even as the first few episodes may seem to meander, and it comes together in a suspenseful thriller with an emotional punch.

When Roberts goes to those places, I feel her authenticity.

Homecoming is the TV equivalent of a head without a hair out of place.

Homecoming is obsessively-rendered small screen Marmite that, depending on the viewer, will intrigue or frustrate. Either way it is sure to leave a...

This is a well-executed mystery that avoids a lot of the pitfalls of both mystery shows and science-fiction-tinged shows: it’s not overd...

Intriguing, mysterious…even better with the second season…

Homecoming adds more than enough to stand on its own and suggests how other audio-to-visual pipeline members might do the same.

Monáe, in common with first-season star Stephan James, has a face that can flicker between strength and vulnerability in an instant.

But even when that final piece of puzzle locks in, we’re still left with so many questions and potentially intriguing developments, we alread...

[The show] doesn’t skimp on the violence, but it retains a little of its telenovela heritage in its glossy, melodramatic sheen.

Slow at first, the 10-episode Amazon series finds its groove in later episodes, which explore the kind of provocative themes that make this feel li...