Sam Esmail appears in a cameo at a table behind Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney at the Shanghai restaurant.
The village that Cruz and Shrier drive to is the set for the bad place in the show "the good place".
During the scene where Cruz and Shrier are leaving the facility, the music playing in the background is from the soundtrack of the original version of the movie "The Andromeda Strain". Then, when Cruz is speaking to Heidi the next day about the incident, "Abraham's Theme" by Vangelis (from "Chariots of Fire") is playing in the background.
The first season of Gimlet Media's "Homecoming" podcast was a finalist for the 2016 Peabody Awards.
Each of "Homecoming's" 10 half-hour episodes were directed by Sam Esmail.