I’m always willing to try new things that I don’t know much about. (Just to be clear, this doesn’t apply to food. I eat when I’m hungry and want something that will satisfy that, not some random thing that may taste terrible and make me regret my life and still be hungry.) With that in mind, I dug in to the six episode Thai series Don’t Come Home.

My gut reaction. Wow. This was good.

I tend to over spoiler at times, especially if I think something is bad. But with this I don’t want to spoil too much because I wholly suggest you watch it. It fits nicely into my category of “What the hell am I watching.” And that isn’t a bad thing. I love a show that keeps my mind engaged. Don’t Come Home does that quite well.

This starts out as a drama with distinct horror overtones. A woman (Varee) and her daughter (Mindi) are fleeing from the city and heading for Varee’s childhood home out in the countryside. A spooky old home without question. Especially as rainy weather has a tendency to kill the power.

When the power goes out, Min tends to see a creepy, tall, red eyed figure lurking around the house watching her. For a 5 year old, that is enough to make her not want to stay in the house. To be honest, it would make me not want to stay there too!

Backing up a bit, as they travelled to the house, Varee coyly would get Min to play hide and seek in the car so nobody saw her. A strategy that came back to haunt her later in the series.

Often in the first episode Varee and Min would play hide and seek. This led to some creepy moments as Varee would see a little girl who was about the same size and age of Min but wearing a halloween mask from the 70’s.

So we’ve got the daughter seeing a big scary monster and the mom seeing a creepy disappearing girl. Again, time to go in my mind! But then one night the mom has gone to the kitchen for a little alcohol therapy. During that, Min starts screaming for her. When Varee rushes to her room, she sees a terrified Min on the bed floating in the air. The door slams shut locking Varee out. When she finally gets in the room, Min is gone.

Talking to the police in the morning things get awkward. Because nobody had seen the daughter. And the police begin to question whether Min exists. Or if Varee had maybe killed her.

The mystery of what happened to Min gets developed deeper as the show goes on, but I don’t want to talk about things past episode two. Much.

Things do get more interesting when we go back to Varee as a young girl living in the house. Her mom is fully wrapped in her job and doesn’t have time for Varee. Which is causing disharmony in the marriage. Leading to a moment of holy crap. Again, this is getting to the point where I don’t want to spoil the story. But I was fully engaged with this relatively quaint, mostly two person, horror story. And then they took it up a notch.

If you are a fan of the sort of Netflix series style shows like Lovecraft Country, Russian Doll, or Archive 81… shows that give you a starting story and then introduce uncertainty. Make you question what you thought you knew. Then this show will absolutely engage your brain.

I’m giving this a 9 star rating. And I absolutely hope it gets a DVD release at some point. Because stupid streaming crap sometimes doesn’t get a DVD but then gets “archived” off the service for a bit. Just let me buy it. Please! I want to watch it again sometime. Maybe soon. Maybe later.