Homecoming will hold your interest despite some of its flaws

The Blooomberg/Horowitz/Esmail 10-part series Homecoming, on Amazon Prime is a mixed bag, w/ some strong points in its favor and some deep flaws as well. The story, briefly, involves a social worker/therapist, Julia Roberts, working in a DOD-financed program to help returning war vets overcome PTSD and transition into society. OK, but we see right away that this project is deeply flawed and completely sinister, in ways that we don't comprehend fully until the conclusion of the series. Her supervisor, running the program from afar - all by cell phone while he engages in various sybaritic activities - is played by a hilarious Bobby Cannevale, who brings a lot to the show. On the plus side, the creators to a fine job w/ the plot strands, doling out information in pieces and letting the picture in stages come into focus; this works bcz JR herself is unclear about the program and its true intent. The show is done half in the "present" - a few years after the program was shut down, and w/  JR working in a crappy job in a diner - and half in the he past, when JR was a well-groomed, devoted social worker involved in a good cause, with particular focus on one returning vet and their completely inappropriate flirtation (the use of different frame dimensions - portrait-frame for the present and wide-screen landscape for the past, was visually distracting and not even used consistently). JR once again shows she's a fine and resourceful actor, able to show a range of emotion. It's obvious why they cast her in the role - star power mega! and prestige for streaming and TV - but she is perhaps 20 years too old from the role (to everyone's credit, they do not make her "glam"). No spoilers here, but the ending had a nice twist that surprised at least me; that said, toward the end there's a lot of schmaltz and improbability re the relation between JR and her patient. I personally do not see how they can use this material for a second season; it would be nice if they quite while they're (mostly) ahead. I will also endorse the comments of a NYT TV critic who gave thumbs-up for a drama series using 30-minute episodes - a rarity, and a welcomed change for pace.