“Stirring Homefront”
by Matt Roush, USA Today, Mar. 11, 1992
Three and a half stars out of four
The test of any superior serial is how it handles major tragedy. This top-notch ’40s-era melodrama delivers the goods.
As radios blare sweeping post-war world change, River Run, Ohio, is shellshocked by local trauma: the shooting of Sarah, an innocent caught in a labor-management conflict.
Homefront’s plot really moves, and is moving, as the characters cling to each other in fear and remorse, while forsythia promise to bloom like calla lilies. What a great show.