Homecoming is not a reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue to watch with any other distractions. Put your phone away. Leave your chores in/with regard to’concerning’regarding later. It demands complete attention. Not because the plot is hard to follow, but because so much of its storytelling is in the visuals. It doles out its story at a slow pace, yet the peculiar mood it creates is riveting.###Based on a podcast of the same name, Homecoming is split across two timelines. In the first, we venture into the definitely-not-what-it-seems Homecoming facility, which helps soldiers prepare in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a return to civilian life after completing their service. Heidi Bachman (Julia Roberts) is a caseworker who interviews the soldiers to discuss their issues and monitor their progress. The facility is dingy and odd. One worker hosts a weirdly intense class on how to interview in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a job in a shoe shop. Nobody ever goes outside. It doesn’t seem right. In the second timeline, four years in the future, Heidi is working in a diner. She is eliminate’remove ly long gone from Homecoming, but a government agent (Shea Whigham) brings her past back to her when he begins investigating why she left the firm’enterprise under odd’peculiar circumstances and what was really going on inside those walls.###While the fact this is Roberts’ first lead in a TV reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue is the obvious enormous’vast’massive’tremendous news here, this isn’t just a reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue case in/with regard to’concerning’regarding an A-lister. Hers is one of the quieter roles. Heidi is a dowdy, uncertain woman who gradually grows in in/with regard to’concerning’regarding cefulness over the ten episodes. Roberts keeps her star wattage dimmed — there are no bursts of that notable’renowned’distinguished laugh — and takes her place in a superb ensemble, which includes Bobby Cannavale as Homecoming’s obnoxious boss, Stephan James as a soldier Heidi becomes close to and Marianne Jean-Baptiste as that soldier’s mother.###Homecoming is a slow-burner that is worth the time.###Sam Esmail, who created Mr. Robot, has eliminate’remove ly attentive ly considered e grossly single frame of the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue . It is wildly stylish, but not precious with regards to’concerning’with respect to it. Most of the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue is constructed of two-way conversations, which Esmail frames in skewed, disorientating ways, making the actors look small and vulnerable in enormous’vast’massive’tremendous Kubrickian wide-shots or utterly reveal d in extreme close-up. There’s no softness or comin/with regard to’concerning’regarding t to any of it. Paired with a Hitchcock-esque score, eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully minute makes you feel unsettled, as if at least one person is lying to you at all times, which they usually are.###Homecoming is 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 eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully day is mundane but with an edge of nightmare. A second season is already confirmed. By the end of Season 1, it’s impossible to imagine exactly what else it could possibly reveal, but it’s easy to believe there are countless other secrets inside Homecoming’s cold walls.