This episode made me cry. Yes, I said it. I cried. I cried because there were so many parts of this episode that hit me right in the feels and so many that just made perfect sense.
It was the evolution of the story and the characters – you feel a lot of things. For instance last week I was emotionally spent over Elliot. And this week, I am just not so sure.
You know how they say that you never talk shit about someones significant other, because it will come back to haunt you? Well, I am now applying that to talking shit about Elliot, because it will come back to haunt me. Maybe it has. Maybe it hasn’t. TBH, the way I feel about that part of this episode is up in the air.
See, for me, what Elliot said to Kat at the end of last weeks episode is an unforgivable thing. She didn’t deserve the pressure of her Dad’s death on her, the guilt over her brother on her, and not even to mention the pressure that she feels over time travel with her.
Kat isn’t even my favorite character but the fact that she wants nothing more than to bring her brother home and to be the best parent to Alice, I do get. Yet, even then, I think sometimes that she puts the idea of bringing Jacob home before her daughter, but you know, here we are and who am I to question anyones parenting? Even if it’s a fictional character? Well I am going to call it like I see them.
Look, Kat has every reason to be looking for her brother. Jacob needs to come home. But I do have a feeling that we’re not going to get there anytime soon. I feel like we’re going to have to suffer through the highs and the lows to get to that one.
And I personally, wouldn’t want it any other way.
The thing about The Way Home is that it’s destroying me in the best way possible. It’s taking me on a journey where I can’t look away. There are no breaks. I am looking at everything on the screen to see if there are any easter eggs. Second after second this show gets better and better.
Lets talk all about this episode – the good, the bad, the ugly, and well… the Elliot of it all.
THE LANDRY OF IT ALL
While I do love Kat, I am just not sure why I find the way that she acts when she meets Elijah Landry, kinda weird. Now, would I know anything about how one would act when time traveling? No. Meeting a relative from the past? No, wouldn’t know how to act. But Kat just seems to be choking on every word that she utters and I am just like GET IT OUT.
When she arrives and runs after Jacob, it’s not the Jacob she’s looking for, but it does lead her to some answers.
Elijah Landry is the nicest man that I have ever seen. He’s immediately trusting of Kat and invites her to his home. When she’s acting very suspicious and very weird. Yet, it doesn’t stop him from having her in, feeding her, talking to her. He tells her about his sons, William and Jacob.
She tells him who she is and he doesn’t think twice about trusting and believing in her. He tells her that she’s family – if she’s Jacobs sister, she is family.
Umm, if you only understood just how much she truly is family dear Elijah.
The moments between Kat and Elijah are great, but lately it’s the scenes with Susannah and Kat that are the best.
When finding out that Susanna is Jacobs betrothed, I admit, didn’t see that one coming. Susanna feels like she’s a girls girl in the sense she’ll protect other women, but she is not a girls girl when it comes to Kat. Just the mere sight of Kat makes her uneasy.
Susanna, played by Watson Rose, is both scary and a character that you know that you can love. When she challenges why Kat is there and where she disappeared to last time. Though Kat is willing to take on a lot of people and challenge a lot of things – she’s not going to take on the knife that Susanna pulls out.
But then again, she kinda did. She challenged it in the best way possible by jumping into the pond and basically dropping the mic. It was kinda priceless to see the look on Susanna’s face.
WE’RE GOING TO LOSE THE FARM
Alice is a good kid. She’s really a good kid and I get that she stayed in Port Haven to help her Grandma. The issue? She doesn’t really communicate with Del and that’s the issue. All of the Landry women seem to have issues communicating. It seems as though in order to try and protect each other, they end up doing things that would hurt each other.
Alice is a kid, but she’s lived a life bigger than any of us ever will. I think that to a certain point, she thinks that she is protecting her Grandma and while that is a beautiful thing, your Grandma wouldn’t want that.
So it’s no surprise to me that Alice explodes at the market (while kinda being a brat) and screaming that they are going to loose the farm. The look of shock on Del’s face was a lot, but she handled it with such grace.
Sometimes I think that Alice is so lucky that she gets a different Del than her Mom did. She gets the Del that isn’t in so much pain that she can relate. Though, sometimes I do think that Del is in a lot of pain and has pushed it down. Maybe that’s because I think that Del knows that Jacob time traveled. But that’s a whole different thing.
Alice and Del are able to find forgiveness really quick, even though Del is annoyed. Del is annoyed because she didn’t ask, but also because the whole town is asking things now.
I wish that we all had a community that was that giving and there for each other. Because the truth is – we need things like that in our lives. We need to know that people are there for us. It’s just something that is so lost now a days.
But all that being said, I love the progression of Alice and Del’s relationship. Seeing them learn to love each other for who they are – that’s a beautiful relationship.
LOOKING FOR FORGIVENESS
Elliot, I want to like you. I do. I know that you feel bad for the things that you’ve said, but me – well, I am one of those people that doesn’t forget things like that. However, that being said, I can understand why it is that Kat is so quick to forgive. You’ve been friends forever, there is nothing but a deep love for each other.
I get it.
But Elliot has a habit throughout his life of secrets and I don’t for a second think that he’s not keeping a big one right now. I am not sure what it is, but I am sure that it is there.
I don’t understand what it is that Elliot is trying to keep from everyone, but part of me thinks that it has something to do with time travel and I think that in the future something changes and he’s capable of travel.
Isn’t it such a good show when a show makes you thinks of all the possibilities and you can’t figure it out?
Kat and Alice both need Elliot and one thing I will say in his favor is that he’s also going through something. He’s been friends with both of them and he’s having to go through the prospect of loosing them both each time that they jump in. All of this has to be so confusing for him.
Still doesn’t forgive what he said.
THE HORSE I AM STILL CONVINCED TIME TRAVELED
When Del and Alice get a flat tire, the man who stopped to help them, I kinda felt like this like for him, but also this suspicion. Like who are you? You’re older man suaveness isn’t working on Del and neither is your cheesy pickup lines. I know that there could be simple reasons why this man is around, but also, with this show who knows.
I feel like this is a possibility for Del to fall in love again, but I also think that is one thing that Del doesn’t want in her life. Everything that she does is for the memory of her husband and she feels like if she doesn’t honor him that we she’s letting him down. The two had a love that some would only ever pray for.
Though I will tell you, a part of me still believes that Del is Susannah. Or she’s a descendant of hers. But there is something not right here.
And part of that is based off the fact of that horse that keeps appearing. That horse that no one knows where it came from but it only seems to ever want to be around Del. Animals are instinctive and I think that the horse only gets close to Del because Del is home to the horse.
Turns out that the new next door neighbor is the man who helped Del and Alice, but he’s also the horses owner.
I find this suspicious.
Maybe it’s that I so desperately want to figure out what is happening here. The Way Home is this magical show that just makes you want to figure out the magic. That’s so desperately rare these days.
I intend to hold onto this show with both hands while it lasts.
The Way Home airs Sunday nights on Hallmark.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- Who is Kasey and why don’t I trust her? Well, I don’t trust anyone on this show, but that’s a whole other thing.
- Kasey Goodwin is only in town for the summer and goes in to beg Kat for a job at the paper. She wants to intern and be part of print media before it’s dead. Way to get a job?
- Why is Alice so mean to Kasey?
- Alice is really not a great waitress. But points for trying?
- Seriously, what is up with Kasey? I kinda feel like she wants to be an intern because of the painting of Kat that was in her grandma’s house.
- Elliot keeps letting clues fall out of his mouth, but doesn’t like cleaning up his messes.
- Alice’s willingness to call Elliot out all the time – here for it
- Douchebag who graduated – go away. You’re too old for Alice
- I really want lasagna now after this episode.
- What is Elliot up to? Like I really think his Dad wasn’t away on a boat when he was young. There is something else.
- Elliot’s warning to Alice about going back – I don’t understand what could be so bad.
