Homecoming (1991)

Posted by Mrs Giggles on October 25, 2022 in 2 Oogies, Idiot Box Reviews, Series: The Hitchhiker

Homecoming (1991) - The Hitchhiker Season 6Main cast: Ken Howard (Douglas Dubois), Laura Favali (Jeanne), Jean-Pierre Stewart (Derval), and Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker)
Director: Bruno Gantillon

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Homecoming is another episode that takes place in Paris, and ooh, the place has a white supremacy problem! Considering that the cast of this episode comprises lily white or white-passing actors, I can only wonder why there is a following for white supremacy in the first place!

American radio talk show host Douglas Dubois has gained a wide following among people that buy into his white supremacy rhetoric, and as usual, he has his own skeletons in his closet. These skeletons make a reemergence, naturally, in this episode, when a young man claiming to be his most loyal “soldier” refuses to be shook off so easily.

Wait, haven’t they already done an episode with a similar “bigot hate-monger gets just desserts” theme going on?

This is a more incoherent spiritual successor to that episode. There’s some revenge plot, secret society stuff, and other potentially intriguing elements here, but for the most part, this one is more like a show with the early and final parts removed. Then, they removed even more bits and pieces of whatever that remains.

As a result, this episode is a hot mess. Perhaps the people behind this thing believed that this episode was amazing, or maybe they just wanted to get something done so that they could all call it a day and go home. At any rate, we’re back in turd territory now, people.

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