![]() Thirty-some flipped houses later, he’s semi-retired and living part time in Cincinnati. Some clients bought the homes furnished, some didn’t either way Harbour’s eye for design made for quick sales. While living in LA, Harbour also started flipping houses and staging them with vintage furniture. He later went on to design sets for Heroes, Fencewalker, Criminal Minds, and Hart of Dixie. Soon, The X-Files came calling during four years designing sets for “Scully” and “Mulder” (whose adventures carried them through deserts, FBI buildings, forests, and small town America), Harbour and the rest of the show’s art department won an Emmy and an IATSE Award for their work. He moved from New York to Los Angeles in the 1990s and broke into the business by doing set design work for television and film. A grad of both Turpin High School and UC’s DAAP program, Harbour worked as an architect before realizing his heart was actually in film. Expect not to see blood spray on screen, but prepare to see it in your mind.This Wyoming Mid-Century Modern has distinct west-coast flair thanks to the handiwork of Hollywood set designer and Cincinnati native Robert Harbour. The violence really comes from what is implied. While the violence is there, and quite bloody and shocking at times, it is not significantly worse, in terms of what is shown, than episodes like Quagmire. Finally, I feel I should comment on the violence and the TV-MA rating, as many others have. Might I add I watched it at night in a basement, alone? I suggest doing so if you really want to feel the episode. Didn't quite do it, but if you are easily, or I guess averagely scared, you will not sleep. Need I say more? And the atmosphere: I have never been really scared by a film or TV show in my life. The use of music: violent beating deaths to the song "Wonderful Wonderful". The camera shows you the perspective of the man and his wife and little else. It manages to show the violence just enough to scare the heck out of you without going overboard. Next, the cinematography: the cinematography in this scene is gorgeous and shocking. The villains though, even with out any significant spoken lines, are brilliantly cast, seeming to be, as I said normal, in their every action, except for the fact that they are not. Let me start with the acting: the performance on the part of their target is simply magnificent, and in his little screen time he portrays first a man with everything seemingly under control, then a man on the brink of sheer terror. A brief description of the scene without revealing any plot points: The villains (normal people really, despite some physical deformities) are going to kill a man and his wife. Many other reviews reference the ingenious and very cinematic "Wonderful Wonderful" scene, so I think I will start from there, as that scene really contains some of the best elements of the episode, indeed the entire show. I plan to write this review without revealing any of the plot. Oh dear, how do you describe Home? Part of the great shock and power of the episode that I had was going in knowing only that the episode was classic, scary, and rated TV-MA.
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