The Long Road Home
National Geographic | Nat Geo | Release Date: November 7, 2017
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
NewsdayVerne GayNov 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: The Long Road can be tough to watch--I saw the first three episodes--but it does seem like it’s essential to. Excellent and unflinching. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandNov 2, 2017
Season 1 Review: The Long Road Home is beautiful and heartbreaking. It is not always easy to watch, but its truth is so magnificently insistent, you cannot look away. Without question, it is one of the finest television offerings of the year. Read full review
100
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushNov 2, 2017
Season 1 Review: The Long Road Home stands above the pack as a truly heart-wrenching and often breathtakingly harrowing display of bravery, valor and sacrifice under fire. [30 Oct 2017 - 12 Nov 2017, p.13]
83
Uncle BarkyEd BarkNov 7, 2017
Season 1 Review: This tautly emotional and up-close look at a mettle-testing day in Iraq seems certain to become its most resonant and valuable production to date. Read full review
70
VarietyMaureen RyanNov 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: Characterization is not the strong suit of The Long Road Home, but the actors do their level best, and directors Phil Abraham and Mikael Salomon excel at depicting the camaraderie of the soldiers as well as the chaos that envelops them at several key moments. But The Long Road Home could have trimmed its overlong running time by cutting out all the home-front storylines. Read full review
67
IndieWireSteve GreeneNov 7, 2017
Season 1 Review: A mostly conventional approach to a story framed around heroism and faith, it’s a show that does the most justice to its real-life inspiration when it resists its own impulses to manufacture drama where plenty already exists. Read full review
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