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Where that episode was about the close-knit nature of a nuclear family home being taken to grim extremes, this episode is all about broken families and those with no home at all. Where that episode was set in rural small-town America, isolated and inward-looking, this is set in the urban anonymity of Philadelphia. In some ways, Morgan’s Home Again is the inverse of his and Wong’s original Home. It’s something of a Marmite episode many loved it for its shocking content, classic horror vibe, and exploration of the nature of the nuclear family and the idea of ‘home’, while others found the violence and the stomach-turning revelations of the plot to be a step too far, resulting in an episode that was downright unpleasant to watch. Home was the first episode to be given a viewer discretion warning for graphic content and it wasn’t repeated by the network for years. It was written by James Wong, who wrote and directed Founder’s Mutation, and Glen Morgan, who wrote and directed this episode. Expect not to see blood spray on screen, but prepare to see it in your mind.Twenty years ago, The X-Files did an episode called Home. The violence really comes from what is implied. While the violence is there, and quite bloody and shocking at times, it is not significantly worse, in terms of what is shown, than episodes like Quagmire. Finally, I feel I should comment on the violence and the TV-MA rating, as many others have. Might I add I watched it at night in a basement, alone? I suggest doing so if you really want to feel the episode. Didn't quite do it, but if you are easily, or I guess averagely scared, you will not sleep.
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Need I say more? And the atmosphere: I have never been really scared by a film or TV show in my life. The use of music: violent beating deaths to the song "Wonderful Wonderful". The camera shows you the perspective of the man and his wife and little else. It manages to show the violence just enough to scare the heck out of you without going overboard. Next, the cinematography: the cinematography in this scene is gorgeous and shocking.
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The villains though, even with out any significant spoken lines, are brilliantly cast, seeming to be, as I said normal, in their every action, except for the fact that they are not. Let me start with the acting: the performance on the part of their target is simply magnificent, and in his little screen time he portrays first a man with everything seemingly under control, then a man on the brink of sheer terror. A brief description of the scene without revealing any plot points: The villains (normal people really, despite some physical deformities) are going to kill a man and his wife. Many other reviews reference the ingenious and very cinematic "Wonderful Wonderful" scene, so I think I will start from there, as that scene really contains some of the best elements of the episode, indeed the entire show.
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I plan to write this review without revealing any of the plot. Oh dear, how do you describe Home? Part of the great shock and power of the episode that I had was going in knowing only that the episode was classic, scary, and rated TV-MA.