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GOING HOME Season 2 Coming to Great American Pure Flix This January
By Movieguide® Contributor
The faith-based drama GOING HOME, which debuted last June, will return for a second season on Jan. 5 and run every Friday through Feb. 9.
The Affirm original series centers around a hospice nurse, Charley Copeland, “who sees her role as a calling from God to help shepherd people from this life to eternity,” the press release detailed on the upcoming series.
The series will see the return of Cozi Zuehlesdorff, Aviona Rodriguez Brown, Steve Lloyd, Christopher Wiehl, Elly Sims, Trent Sims and Cynthia Geary, who plays Charley.
“This is one of my favorite and most meaningful roles,” Geary said. “I can’t wait for GOING HOME fans to experience this new season filled with stories of compassion and forgiveness.”
The show also has guest appearances from Karen Allen (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK), Ellen Travolta (CHARLES IN CHARGE) and Gloria Reuben (LINCOLN).
Dan Merchant, the show’s creator and director, gave a glimpse of what audiences can expect from this season.
“We loved hearing how the show touched people’s hearts in our first season,” Merchant said. “In this new season, things get more personal for Charley and the other hospice nurses. We think the audience will be touched as Charley explores GriefShare with Alec to help manage the loss of his wife as well as a loss Charley doesn’t realize she’s still grieving. Janey grows into her own as an excellent nurse only to find things complicated by a new love interest, and Tamara manages serious health issues even as her strength and grace bolster Sunset House.”
GriefShare is a real-life Christian support group that helps those who have lost loved ones. Merchant became familiar with the ministry when he lost his father. The experience was part of the inspiration behind the series.
“The idea hatched in the midst of the pandemic. So clearly, mortality was on my mind, and I had a parent, my one remaining parent, going through cancer at the time so that mortality marker was also there. And my dad actually even passed away during the filming of the show,” Merchant told Jean Thomason on “Momentum Influencers.”
Geary praised how GOING HOME approaches dying and said that the show has helped change her feelings about death.
“I think, first and foremost, it’s beautifully written. It’s such a good show, and I think everyone can relate to it. I mean, the stories are universal in the sense that you know, we are all going to die, and we’re all going to lose loved ones,” Geary told GAPF in a behind-the-scenes interview.
She continued, “I think that I’ve learned a lot just reading and working on these scripts about my attitude about death and about not being afraid of it and seeing how important it is to resolve those issues. And to say what needs to be said. And I think that it can be a beautiful thing to see families come together and leave this world in a beautiful way, in a peaceful way.”
Part of Movieguide®’s review of GOING HOME’s pilot episode reads:
“Charley’s Way” is the opening episode to a drama streaming on Pure Flix about daily life in a hospice for terminally ill patients. It focuses on the facility’s head nurse, Charley Copeland. Charley arrives at Sunset House at the end of her jogging commute. Her workday commences with the nurses’ report, where the previous shift briefs the incoming shift, followed by a new patient arrival. The episode’s trajectory turns to the patient and their family, and the thoughts and feelings they have about the patient’s imminent death. Charley and the staff encourage them to have a healthy acceptance of “death as a part of life.”
“Charley’s Way” is a powerful episode with pinpoint accuracy about hospice experiences and captivating camera work. As such, it depicts the transformative experience an inpatient hospice can provide families and patients. “Charley’s Way” has a strong Christian, biblical worldview. Scripture is read, and prayer is front and center. The dying moment is the episode is tastefully depicted, but sensitive viewers might find such scenes hard to watch. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.
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