Homecoming

  1. Episode 10 Stop
    Homecoming Finale Recap: Please, Remember Me As Heidi seeks closure, she’s forced to come to terms with her role in defining Walter’s past, present, and future.
  2. Episode 9 Work
    Homecoming Recap: What Is Experience? In a downshift of a penultimate episode, characters’ interior lives and continued revelations about the past take precedence over resolution.
  3. Episode 8 Protocol
    Homecoming Recap: Breakdown Heidi is broken by the awful truth about Homecoming, in a series-best episode that fuses the tension that’s been building up on both timelines.
  4. Episode 7 Test
    Homecoming Recap: Blank Slate In an episode that reveals the full nature, and endgame, of the Homecoming program, the nature of memory and its absence become the focus.
  5. Episode 6 Toys
    Homecoming Recap: Friend or Fool? A visit from Walter’s mother to retrieve her son puts Heidi on the defensive — and further complicates her motivations.
  6. Episode 5 Helping
    Homecoming Recap: Compromised Colin is both threatening and threatened as Heidi and Walter’s relationship undermines his vision for the Homecoming experiment.
  7. Episode 4 Redwood
    Homecoming Recap: Memory Blank As Walter and Heidi’s therapy sessions intensify, lines are crossed and questions mount.
  8. Episode 3 Optics
    Homecoming Recap: Road Trip An unauthorized off-campus excursion helps kick the intrigue into high gear on both timelines, and finds a clever rhyme between them in the process.
  9. Episode 2 Pineapple
    Homecoming Recap: What A Soldier Believes Walter’s loyalties are pulled in opposite directions as the fastidious order of the Homecoming program is disrupted.
  10. Episode 1 Mandatory
    Homecoming Premiere Recap: Down the Rabbit Hole The podcast makes the jump to TV with a new cast and director, but the same paranoid ambience and puzzle-box narrative.
  1. Episode 7 Again
    Homecoming Season Finale Recap: The Spotless Mind A reasonably satisfying finish, with some strong De Palma-style theatrics, exposes season two as a slick thrill machine first and foremost.
  2. Episode 6 Needle
    Homecoming Recap: Crisis Management Alex knows the jig is up with Walter, and so must shift into a desperate, improvised Phase II.
  3. Episode 5 Meters
    Homecoming Recap: War Stories We’re waiting for the moment when everything goes wrong for Alex, and every word that comes out of her mouth is one second closer to detonation.
  4. Episode 4 Soap
    Homecoming Recap: Doublespeak Francine Bunda (Joan Cusack) is not merely taking an interest in Geist as a company. She’s running the show.
  5. Episode 3 Previously
    Homecoming Recap: Human Resources Acting like a good person is an effective scheme for bad people.
  6. Episode 2 Giant
    Homecoming Recap: A Puzzle Within a Puzzle For every piece of Jackie’s (Alex’s?) identity that falls into place, a new question emerges.
  7. Episode 1 People
    Homecoming Season-Premiere Recap: Breadcrumbs We meet up with this season’s new military guinea pig, Jackie Calico (Janelle Monáe), at the center of the maze.

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    Hong Chau Doesn’t Need Your Approval “I don’t task myself with changing minds or being understood anymore.”
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    Homecoming’s Second Chapter Trades Conspiracy for Psychological Thrills It’s not as provocative as season one, but the Janelle Monáe–led continuation of the Amazon thriller is a binge-worthy search for identity.