Home

Home has quietly become one of the more dependable comedies currently available in Australia on Amazon Prime Video and BINGE, and in the US on Netflix. The runtime earns every minute, with nothing here that feels like padding. 4,257 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Jim Parsons sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. Available now on Amazon Prime Video — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

There is a reason Home keeps coming up in conversation. Home gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime. Jim Parsons and Rihanna lead a cast with the timing to make it work. It hit screens in 2015. What keeps Home from feeling disposable is a cast that clearly understands the material better than the format usually demands. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Home is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. A contained runtime means every scene is doing real work. Jim Parsons's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.