![]() In Homecoming, what seems absurd – a melon left on a motel bed – can turn out to be sinister, while what unsettles – a fragmented memory of red towels – might be innocuous. It’s not until the end of the second episode, however, that we begin to understand how it’s all connected. Rather than introducing an entirely new story for this series, the narrative builds on previous events, venturing out beyond the original podcast for the first time. That, and the fact that despite Julia Roberts’ absence from the screen (she’s still exec producing), and the addition of new cast members, including Chris Cooper, Joan Cusack and Monáe, Homecoming is no anthology. That’s about as much as you say about the plot of Homecoming season two without stumbling into spoiler territory. It’s The Hangover, retold as a psychological thriller, only clearly it would have taken more than a few strawberry daiquiris to get Jacqueline in this state. She can’t recall her own name, much less how she came to be in this place, and the next few episodes are given over to the attempts of this woman – named ‘Jacqueline Calico’, according to the military ID in her pocket – to retrace her steps. She calls for help from a shadowy figure lurking in the fir trees, but by the time she’s paddled ashore, he’s disappeared and night has fallen. This welcome second helping opens in a different, but equally distinctive, American landscape as a woman (Janelle Monáe) regains consciousness in a row boat, adrift on a lake. Thirty-minute episodes are just so moreish, compared with the usual drag-a-thon dramas. So why, some years later, was she working as a waitress and giving evasive answers to an investigator from the Dept of Defense? Ultimately though, it wasn’t the star power, so much as the perfectly portioned instalments which had us hooked. ![]() Last season, Julia Roberts starred as a counsellor of veterans at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, somewhere in Florida –at least that’s what the tropical foliage and persistent pelican caw suggested. ![]() M aybe we were first enticed to watch Homecoming (Amazon), adapted from the podcast of the same name, by the chance to see a megawatt movie star on the small screen.
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