“The Long Road Home” -- The Top 25 Programs of 2017, No. 10

The biographical drama Genius, featuring award-worthy performances by Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Flynn, both portraying Albert Einstein at different ages, was the National Geographic scripted limited series that got all the attention this year.  But The Long Road Home, a harrowing and heartbreaking eight-episode drama about one of the many tragic events that have claimed so many lives during the endless Iraq War, deservers just as much acclaim.  It is an amazing production that places the viewer right in the center of the action (better described as the center of the horror).  Our own Jacqueline Cutler was right in the center of this mammoth production during filming (at Fort Hood in Texas) and filed this exclusive MediaVillage report.