Julia Roberts won't return for Homecoming's podcast-defying second season
Note: This article contains plot spoilers for Homecoming.
Shea Whigham on Boardwalk Empire, Vice, and why he’s played so many cops
The actor: Although Shea Whigham has been steadily working in Hollywood for almost two decades, over the past couple of…
Stephan James on how If Beale Street Could Talk will leave you “broken yet so full”
Note: This interview contains plot details of If Beale Street Could Talk.
Television in 2018 looks more and more like movies from the 1970s
Sam Esmail is hardly the first person to bring a little visual panache to television. In the decade after The Sopranos…
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Homecoming ends with a phone call, a fight, and a familiar face
There are often much easier answers to the big questions on TV than there are in life. Most of us spend years looking…
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With one episode left, Homecoming exposes its wounded heart
“I deserve to be punished. Don’t I?”
Homecoming’s music supervisor on the show’s score of scores: “It was unlike anything I’ve ever done before”
Homecoming, Amazon’s new drama, is notable for being the first TV show to be adapted from a scripted podcast. But once…
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Sparks fly as Heidi's world expands on a confrontational Homecoming
God bless the quiet dignity of Shea Whigham’s Thomas Carrasco. The man can get the runaround from practically everyone…
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Memories of the past start to crumble as Homecoming accelerates
“I don’t know what’s going on. Do you?” Set to the awkward background soundtrack of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s “You…
A comprehensive list of all the songs played in Homecoming
Homecoming presents a captivating mystery, aided by an unnerving, sometimes jarring score. Across its 10 extremely…
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A superbly unsettling Homecoming shows Heidi's past and present getting messy
You know what? Forget everything I said about Colin Belfast in the last review. Who cares if he’s a rotten boss? What…
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Homecoming hits the mid-season mark by revealing its grand corporate plan
Colin is the worst kind of boss. He’s the guy that talks to hear himself talk. He’s the person convinced they already…
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Everyone wants answers—and a harmonica—on Homecoming
Anyone who’s lived through a traumatic event can tell you just how difficult it often is to address it directly. What…
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With its third episode, Homecoming starts to loosen up and have some fun
For its first couple of episodes, I wasn’t sure if Homecoming was planning to play it totally straight with its…
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The investigation stalls as Homecoming scatters more breadcrumbs
“Who here thinks any of this is fuckin’ real?!”
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Homecoming's first episode delivers mystery, mood, and a tantalizing question
What happened to Heidi Bergman? After thirty minutes of some of the most enticing table-setting this side of an Agatha…
Spoiler Space: Homecoming
Spoiler Space offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t reveal in our official reviews. Fair…
Julia Roberts and Sam Esmail on translating Homecoming from podcast to TV
Julia Roberts, who long ago earned the right to be selective in her projects, is stepping into the TV realm for the…
Here's what's coming to Amazon Prime in November
The spookiness of October will soon be making way for the turkey-ness of November, and in the spirit of the season,…
New podcast LeVar Burton Reads delivers exactly what it promises
In Podmass, The A.V. Club sifts through the ever-expanding world of podcasts and recommends the previous week’s best…