Each episode of Amazon’s “Homecoming” ends with a revealing moment of awareness for a character. It’s not necessarily a big twist that makes us see the world completely differently, like in Esmail’s other show “Mr. Robot,” but more of a new emotional understanding. It’s a moment the executive producer and director wanted the audience to live in for a few extended moments.
“The endings of the episodes, they’re never really these big cliff-hanging gotcha moments,” said Esmail when he was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast. “They’re really kind of slow reveals, and then we do this thing with the credit sequence where we play out whatever the last scene is, in real time, just to kind of reinforce this lingering effect that this is going to be a different kind of mystery where, again, we’re not going to splash these big twists at the end.
“The endings of the episodes, they’re never really these big cliff-hanging gotcha moments,” said Esmail when he was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast. “They’re really kind of slow reveals, and then we do this thing with the credit sequence where we play out whatever the last scene is, in real time, just to kind of reinforce this lingering effect that this is going to be a different kind of mystery where, again, we’re not going to splash these big twists at the end.
- 6/6/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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