The Way Home 2×02 Review: Hanging By A Moment

Elliot my friend, you can officially go straight to hell.

Yes, I know that’s not the place to start this review, but here we are and that’s where I am starting because I just finished the episode and I am so mad. I am so mad at you Elliot. I am so mad that you are doing everything you can just to be the coldest person that you can be.

And that’s not even in the realm of acceptable behavior. Not everything in your head needs to make its way out of your lips. Like keep some sh** to yourself.

But I need to take some steps back and let myself calm down.

It’s insane to me how The Way Home keeps getting better and better. Every episode is just captivating and you realize that you there are so many easter eggs in the episodes that you marvel at the genius.

You marvel at the secrets.

You marvel at the openness.

There isn’t a part of me that doesn’t think that there is no one to be trusted in Port Haven. I wonder if we truly can trust any of the characters – Kat and Alice included. Like I want to, but I also think that with all of the secrets that everyone is keeping, who knows.

BUT, that being said, I said last week that Del is definitely hiding something. She knows something. She knows more about Jacob than she wants to admit and that makes me so angry at her.

Ya, Elliot and Del are just infuriating and right now I will say this – I don’t like them and I am hoping that somehow that changes. Because I want to love Elliot again. I want to even find a way to like Del.

ELLIOT AND ALICE

We know that at the end of the season premiere, that Alice was separated from Kat. She ends up back in time and face to face with a young Elliot. He’s really not thrilled to see her.

Guess that is Elliot throughout time.

Why would I say that? Well because Alice quickly heads back into the pond and back to her time. Present day Elliot isn’t thrilled to see her. He’s actually quite angry and frustrated when she tries to tell him about Kat and her getting separated. She wants to know what to do, but Elliot says nothing. His interest is only peaked when Alice mentions Jacob.

Elliot sits on a high horse thinking that he should be told about everything, but he doesn’t tell everyone everything. So why is he above all?

Alice has every right to be angry with Elliot. I do believe that Elliot is hiding something and the more time that goes on I think that his secrets are deeper than anyone knows. But I do have to wonder why it is that the only person who doesn’t seem to be angry at Elliot is Del.

Why is she okay with everything? Is it because Elliot’s been there for her?

When Alice heads back to the pond and dives in, she ends back in the year 2000. Young Elliot is really pissed and tells her to leave and that he never wants to see her again. The look on her face was too much – I was angry for her.

Alice didn’t ask for what was happening to her and well, who knows how to navigate time travel, really? I do get that Elliot is angry and everyone is entitled to their feelings, but treating people as if they are below you is not the way to be. That’s exactly what Elliot did, he treated her as if she shoulda known.

She’s just a kid.

Just like he is.

But the two do find a way to make up and Alice does manage to return to her time.

1814

Whomever it is that shot (at the end of the last episode) Kat, well, he’s the douchebag of 1814. It’s like he enjoys inflicting pain. He’s got small d**k energy, because he seems to love to try and put women down at every turn. He tries to exert some sort of dominance by intimidation. Not really sure why it is that he saves Kat and brings her back to wherever it is so that she gets care.

Kat is stuck in a basement – in and out of a daze. Her wound has gone septic and she’s got a fever. We just know that she keeps calling out for Alice and that someone is taking care of her. It turns out that person taking care of her was Susannah Augustine.

And she reminds me of someone – Del. Same attitude.

Susannah takes no shit. She doesn’t stop and seems very protective of space and time, but I am not sure why. But hear me out, she’s Elliot’s family member. Now I don’t trust Elliot this season (I did the first season), but what if Elliot can time travel? What if he’s also a part of 1814 and maybe he doesn’t know. But there is something his family is up to.

But I also think that Del could be Susannah. Yes, I said that. I mean it too.

Kat manages to escape and just when the men of the town are about to drag her to prison, Susannah comes in and saves her – tossing her on the back of the horse and taking her to the pond. She wants to know more about Kat – where she’s from, who is Alice. Kat’s a horrible liar and definitely should have paid more attention in history class. Then again, who knows how I would act if I was under the pressure of time travel.

It turns out that Kat had also been calling out for Jacob in her fever. Susannah wants to know why she was and what happened there. TBH, I wasn’t expecting them to give away Jacob being there so soon – except we know that Jacob Landry is at the farm with his family.

And I am not sure that we’re dealing with her brother. It seems too convenient that they gave the information too soon and Jacob could be a family name. So while I do want to believe that Kat has found Jacob, I have to admit that I am not counting my chickens before they are hatched.

I’ve watched enough time travel shows in my life. Hell, I watched enough Pretty Little Liars to know that nothing is what it seems (and yes, that’s not time travel, but you get my point).

COMMUNAL FARM

We learned in the last episode, that the man that has been leasing Del’s land can no longer do it. He’s sold his farm and the person taking it over doesn’t want to do it. Del doesn’t know what to do. She doesn’t know how to make the farm survive, especially since no one knows that the extent of how in the hole the farm is.

She asks for Elliot’s help to go to the town council for a farm idea. It would be teaching future farmers how to farm the land and any excess from what they sell, would go to charities.

You think that it would be a no brainer, but it turns out that it is. The council refuses and Del is concerned on what to do. She’s out on the land and she sees Colton, who tells her that she knows what she needs to do. She needs to tell Kat the truth.

Now here’s another reason I think that Del is Susannah. Ok, I know that animals can time travel, but when Del looks up and sees Susannah’s horse, there was a familiarity between the two. I think that like Finn went searching for Jacob, this horse went searching for Susannah.

I don’t know. It would make sense.

But then I wonder what relative that Susannah could be – because like this is all getting complicated. Yet then again, is Elliot really an Augustine? What if he was brought to the present to keep him from something in the past? FML, I am spiraling.

BACK TO THE PRESENT

Kat and Alice make it back at the same time. One thing that I have to admit about this show is that I am loving the growth of the mother/daughter relationships here. I love that Kat and Alice share everything now a days.

And I love that the two are willing to do whatever it takes to support each other, including keeping each others secrets. They enable each other and they make each other see that they have to keep going back to the pond.

Kat has to go back.

It’s reiterated that she has to go back when they go to the lady who passed aways house to buy the painting of Kat. She definitely went back to 1814, but the question is what happened. What got to that painting being commissioned? Who was Kat with?

I know that there is something more in that house. Something more that we don’t know about yet, but things that will unlock the mysteries.

What I don’t like is that as Kat and Alice are bonding, Kat gets angry because she didn’t know that Elliot was hiding from her that Alice did go back. She confronts Elliot for the lies and though they both say some really shitty things, what I didn’t like was that Elliot tells her that he blames her for Colton’s death, basically. He tells her that she can’t change things.

Like Elliot – who do you think that you are? I have never went from loving a character to hating them so quickly.

And I hate that for me.

Kat though, she’s more motivated to change the past to have a different future. I just wonder if she knows that changing the past, well… that could change everything. It doesn’t matter what happens though, Elliot, Kat isn’t going to give up and Alice is going to support her.

Alice is going to support her so much, that she cancels going to her fathers. It also has to do with the fact that she finds out that Del might lose the farm. She’s not going to have her Grandma be alone. She’s not going to leave her, knowing that Kat is going to be gone a lot.

The dedication that they have to each other is something that I couldn’t have seen a year ago.

But I am here for it.

OTHER THOUGHTS

• Kat buying the gun that she was shot with is straight up weird.
• Kat returning to 1814, and thinking she sees Jacob right away. I am wondering if it is.
• Alice and Elliot’s argument in front of the mansion – you can’t miss it. You have to look at Elliot’s face – he’s up to something. And he went to that house for a reason.
• I want to know what clues are in the books that Del bought, cause I know there is something.
• I really really really am so mad at Elliot.
• What voices was Elliot hearing? He’s been at that house before? There is something there.
• I feel like Elliot is terrified Kat is going to figure out what he’s done.
• What is in that notebook Elliot keeps? I am not sure but I feel like it’s SOMETHING BIG

The Way Home airs Sunday nights on Hallmark.