Film Review Podcast: “Homecoming”

Posted: November 16th, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews Podcast | No Comments »

Paranoia strikes deep/ Into your life it will creep/It starts when you’re always afraid/ You step out of line, the man come and take you away

Homecoming is the name of the 10 part, 5 hour Amazon Prime series, and also the name of the Department of Defense contracted facility it depicts, set up to ease soldiers with PTSD back to civilian life after a deployment on the war front.

Bobby Cannavale works for Geist, the corporation running the facility, and he hires recent social work school grad Julia Roberts to administer to the men housed there.

All is not as it seems. Duh!

This creepy but seriously engaging exercise unfolds expertly and with a brisk pace, but one that is never rushed.

The tale is told in a couple of time sequences, mingled together. 2018, when the events in question occur. And four years later when there is a DOD investigation, instigated by a complaint from the mother of one of Roberts’ patients, Stephan Jones.

The screen is slick, the soundtrack eery. Both add to the suspense.

What’s really going on? I’ll never tell, but I was enamored with this series, I powerwatched it over two days.

I love that the episodes are short, but effective. I love that, about episode 7, just when you think the creators are going to fall into clichés, they don’t. I love that the ending isn’t what you think the set up will bring.

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