The Long Road Home

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Season 1
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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Critic Reviews

  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Nov 6, 2017
    100
    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.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Nov 2, 2017
    100
    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.
  3. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Nov 2, 2017
    100
    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]
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  5. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Nov 7, 2017
    83
    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.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    Nov 6, 2017
    70
    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.
  7. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Steve Greene
    Nov 7, 2017
    67
    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.

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#36 Best TV Season of 2017
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#75 Most Shared TV Season of 2017

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User Score
4.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 30
  3. Negative: 15 out of 30
  1. night4
    Nov 9, 2017
    4
    Very pretentious and weirdly religious. The only actors that are great and I *want* to see (like Noel Fisher) barely have any screen time atVery pretentious and weirdly religious. The only actors that are great and I *want* to see (like Noel Fisher) barely have any screen time at all.

    More action would have helped. There isn't very much and it feels very "small", as if they had a terribly limited budget.    … Full Review »
  2. ronaldohero
    Nov 11, 2017
    10
    Amazing Movie which deserves alot of attention. well made and great casting. One of the best war miniseries ever. I recomend you watch it asAmazing Movie which deserves alot of attention. well made and great casting. One of the best war miniseries ever. I recomend you watch it as soon as possible!… Full Review »
  3. BioTofu
    Apr 22, 2022
    3
    Overusing off focus shots and some of these scenes are way too long with nothing for the eyes to really focus on. Also a problem withOverusing off focus shots and some of these scenes are way too long with nothing for the eyes to really focus on. Also a problem with unnecessary bobbing of the camera, very noticeable.… Full Review »
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