Written by the podcast's creators Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg and directed by Esmail, Homecoming is a psychological thriller that centers on a caseworker at a secret government facility (Julia Roberts) and a soldier eager to rejoin civilian life.
The show centers on Jake, an unassuming divorced English teacher who stumbles upon a time portal that leads to 9/9/1960 and goes on a quest to try and prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963. But his mission is threatened by Lee Harvey Oswald, his falling in love and the past itself ... which doesn't want to be changed.
Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae (Robert Duvall) and Captain Woodrow F. Call (Tommy Lee Jones), two famous former Texas Rangers, run a livery in the small dusty Texas border town of Lonesome Dove.