The former highest-paid female actor in film has followed in the footsteps of other A-listers and sidled on to the small screen for a strange mystery
Florida 2018, an unnamed government facility, and the air is thick with tension. Heidi (Julia Roberts), a caseworker for PTSD sufferers, sits behind a desk straightening pens and brushing away non-existent dust. A fish tank is built into the wood-panelled wall and an Anglepoise lamp sits on a table just so. Outside, in a palm tree-lined courtyard, a pelican casually strolls by.
In Homecoming (from Friday, Amazon Prime Video), a conspiracy thriller from Mr Robot’s Sam Esmail, everything is a little bit … off. The thriller is named after a government programme in which newly discharged war veterans are “assisted” in adjusting to civilian life. Among Heidi’s clients is Walter (Stephan James), who is unfailingly polite but who, in his quieter moments, daydreams about jamming his head into the corner of his desk.
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