Homecoming: Season 1 - TV Reviews (2024)

Every frame is a painting. Long, deliberate shots. Mood-inducing music and a story that cleverly darts around in time make this engine purr.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2023

This is the kind of show that compels you to run immediately for friends or weekly discussion threads to breakdown the twists and turns and ratchet up expectations for the next episode.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2021

The tension and suspense of the story is rounded off by great performances... an outstanding thriller. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Apr 27, 2021

Whatever the actress or the series creators consciously planned to bring out ... they are delivering a verdict here on decades of the "war on terror" and the greed and depravity of the American financial-corporate oligarchy.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2021

It is important and well done. It points to the corrosive, destabilizing and ongoing impact of American imperialism's neo-colonial wars.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2020

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

Full Review | Jul 15, 2020

Bobby Cannevale is excellent as Colin Belfast, a manipulative corporate supervisor. Shea Wigham compellingly portrays the earnest federal investigator Thomas Carrasco.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2020

This is as enthralling a mystery series as any of the more high-profile efforts that have been buzzed about over the last few years.

Full Review | May 12, 2020

Homecoming is a visually lush exploration of trauma, memory, and the human heart vs. the mind.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 4, 2019

There is an excellent aesthetic here and wonderful performances, but one can't help but feel like the series becomes predictable. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2019

Ominous as a Hitchco*ck film; beautifully photographed as a De Palma film. Julia Roberts best performance possibly ever. Everything about this series is first rate

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 6, 2019

A slow burner yes but so satisfying, both emotionally and in terms of plot, by the time the characters come home.

Full Review | Dec 20, 2018

It's an interesting and unsettling re-structuring of the detective drama, and it adds to the visual and aural onslaught from Esmail and co, who are pulling the strings to engage the viewer even when the story lulls.

Full Review | Dec 18, 2018

Homecoming is an exercise in postmodern pastiche that seems to have forgotten to have much of a story.

Full Review | Dec 18, 2018

Movie superstar Julia Roberts crushes here, benching her legendary smile - mostly - to play a frazzled, damaged administrator discovering the dark side of a corporate-run program for veterans.

Full Review | Dec 17, 2018

Homecoming is a more complex offering in the world of compromised states and it's decision to show its cards until the end is what makes it special. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Dec 15, 2018

Homecoming is straightforward and completely bingeable; the 10 thirty-minute episodes fly by, always making you want more when the "Directed by Sam Esmail" text pops up at the end.

Full Review | Dec 14, 2018

The show has Hitchco*ck DNA.

Full Review | Dec 4, 2018

This is Roberts' finest work in years, showcasing not just her toothy-grinned charm, but also the subtle emotional shading she is capable of. Whigham and other supporting cast turn in first-rate performances as well.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 28, 2018

Homecoming loads an impressive amount of twisty psychological drama into a half-hour. There are so many hints, cinematic references, clues, red herrings and "easter eggs," it would take multiple viewings to catch them all.

Full Review | Nov 28, 2018