The Way Home Season 3, Episode 6 Review: ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’

I am going to say what we all are thinking: we need longer seasons of The Way Home. So much happens in each episode that it feels like you can’t blink because you will be missing something and it will be important. Everything is moving so fast in The Way Home Season 3, Episode 6 and I would like some more moments where we get to see what is happening versus being told that it is happening.

I would like moments where we get more time with characters to understand them and why they are there.

Maybe I am the only one who feels this way and I will accept that. I think we all know that it isn’t going to change my mind with the way I see things. Television is subjective.

One thing that makes The Way Home so great is that it brings so many emotions out of its viewers. What some love, some hate. What some hate, some love. It’s a show that takes its viewers seriously, but also that its viewers take seriously.

The Way Home is different than anything that Hallmark makes, but it is the cast that makes the show what it is (alongside the writing, of course).

EMMA GO AWAY, BUT NICK STAY

Make no mistake, I don’t trust Emma or Elliott. I know that a lot of people think I am too critical of Elliott and that I can understand. I don’t think Elliott knows what he wants.

Watching this show, I think he knows what made him happy as a teenager.

Elliott and Kat may be meant to be together. They continue to fight so hard to be together. The question is, should there be a need to fight that hard for love?

Emma says that she came over because she thought that she had upset people at Del’s party. I think that she’s being honest with that, but I also think that she wants answers from Elliott and doesn’t know what to do because she doesn’t have those.

Nick showing up, because Emma was there, tells me the kind of friend that he is. But he also shows up because he knows that Elliott is always making the worst choices.

Elliott is doing everything that he can to try and justify his choices to himself. Does Elliott understand his choices and the road that he has? Does Elliott realize that he already is loved?

When Emma has questions for him – if it was real for him and kisses him – Elliott doesn’t back away. He seems to accept the comfort that Emma is willing to offer him.

I don’t think that Elliott knows what is real or how he feels. Trying to outrun his fate makes no sense, but he’s never really known what his fate is. I think that Elliott has hated that, but I also think that it’s been a safety thing for him. He’s felt like things can always change. He’s felt like he can love Kat enough that she’s going to be his.

But I tend to wonder if it’s been about being a part of the Landry family that he wants most of all.

Emma being there is doing a million things to his emotions and sending his feelings all over the place. I hope that Elliott finds some sort of peace because right now all he’s got is this quest to figure out who he is.

And I think this is just another example of his indecision. I hope that Elliott can find some conviction in his choices. Maybe even really finally make a choice.

CASEY, MAX, AND FATE

I will die on this hill: Casey is Max and Alice’s daughter. Even when we learn who they are, I will believe that they are Max and Alice’s daughter.

Max Goodwin is a mystery and we don’t know much about him yet. We could be getting a bunch of red herrings when it comes to Max and Alice.

Every clue is leading us right to that – to fate bringing those two together. I really believe that Casey is Max and Alice’s child. Every moment is bringing Max and Alice together, even if they don’t see it yet. No shade to Noah. He’s Mr. Right Now, not forever.

I think that Max wants to just find footing in this new town and it just so turns out that his only friend is Alice’s boyfriend. Alice is like us, watching all of the clues unfold and she doesn’t like them. She doesn’t even know if they are real, but there is a chance that they are. That is enough to motivate her to try and fight it.

It doesn’t help that Elliott had matched her with Max as her lab partner. Alice may want to outrun fate, but she can’t outrun her teacher and the school forcing her and Max to work together.

MAKING UP WITH GRANDMA

Del is one of the most stubborn people in the world (well the world of The Way Home). She doesn’t like to look at other people’s point of view. She protects her own heart, but a lot of the time she doesn’t have regard for the way that she speaks and how it hurts others.

Fighting with Alice isn’t what she wants to do. I think that her relationship with Alice feels like her redemption. She may not have the best relationship with Kat, but with Alice, she has a chance to be better. To do better.

I do believe that Del is a good person, but I also believe that her secrets will be what strangles her soul. She tried to apologize to Alice but still stood by what she said in the argument.

I can’t even imagine how hard it is for Alice, having to jump through time, but that means that she’s also going to become a part of the memory. It also makes sense that she wouldn’t be a part of Del’s recollection of the time. However, her telling Del what she saw can skew her memories.

Seeing things from a different point of view isn’t easy, but it is necessary. I think that for Del, information on Colton and Evelyn is too hard. It’s too hard, partially because it’s the summer that she fell in love and partially because it makes her seem like someone she didn’t feel that she was.

For Alice though – these are her memories too and asking to not speak about them is like taking a part of her away.

It feels as though Del is struggling because of secrets, but also because there is a lot that Del has lost. She felt like she didn’t know a lot about her life and that nothing was as it should have been. But what was it supposed to be?

The two make up. However, it feels like they’re both being silenced. By choice. I just still feel that there is a breaking point and if Alice can’t talk about 1974, something in her will break.

And she needs her Grandma. She needs Del.

SUSANNAH IS IN TROUBLE

Kat wants to be a savior to others and I am really not sure why she wants that to be who she is. She doesn’t seem to have an identity that isn’t about saving others or making others happy. I worry about that.

With her and Jacob back, Jacob wants to dive headfirst into getting revenge. Elijah wants to rush him and Kat home – out of everyone’s sight – so that he can make sure that they are safe.

Susannah isn’t about to tell anyone why she married Cyrus, but she does show up at the Landry farm to tell Kat and Jacob to leave. There is something that has changed with Susannah, but I am not sure what it is. When it comes to Kat, it seems as if it’s just too painful for her.

I am not going to lie, I ship Kat and Susannah. The love that they share is more than either will admit. I think Susannah pushes Kat away because it’s easier than the pain of having her close and knowing that they can’t be together.

Kat isn’t willing to run away – she runs towards the danger. That danger leads her right to Susannah and Cyrus’ wedding reception to try to save Susannah. Thomas has the same thought.

Why either of them would make an appearance at a place where they are not welcome, I do not understand. Susannah is grown and it becomes obvious quickly why she married Cyrus.

The town thinks that Susannah is a witch and that is why they have no sun. Cyrus is there to keep her safe and won’t let anything happen to Susannah. He will however serve Kat up with no thought.

Kat remembers the lullaby and knows that she’s meant to be here for a reason. She says that she is the witch and Thomas backs her up when he says that Kat brought him back from the dead. Cyrus is going to have them hung – along with Jacob – and not think twice about it.

THE HANGING LULLABY

Cyrus tries to make a deal with Kat, but she tells him that she can’t control the sun. She’s sealed their fate. And that hurts both her and Susannah. Cyrus doesn’t care – his only thought is protecting Susannah.

Hanging Thomas, Jacob, and the White Witch is something he can live with. That song gives Kat the power to save them.

She leans into being a witch, telling them that if they hang them, she’ll take the moon also. She manages to secure safety for her, Jacob, and Thomas with the help of Susannah hyping the crowd to say to let them go. It almost makes me wish that I would have paid more attention in science class and would understand what was happening with the light of the moon.

Kat was so lucky that her timing matched up with the darkness covering the moon. She played her hand well and secured Jacob and Thomas their freedom from Cyrus and his men.

I don’t think that Cyrus has any redemption because of this. I do think that Susannah and Kat have found their way past the fact that they aren’t in the same time. Say what you want but their friendship/relationship is just beginning.

When Kat leaves, Susannah pulls out the painting. It’s finished. Painted.

And even what this painting means anymore.

JACOB CAN’T EVEN LOOK AT HER NOW

I didn’t think that I would ever be mad at Jacob, because I have always had a soft spot for him. I think that he’s been through so very much and he needs some time to get through things. But, The Way Home Season 3, Episode 6 – Jacob Landry – you are selfish.

He is legitimately only thinking of himself and his own pain. I do get that he’s gone through a lot and that he needs a lot of therapy. But when he and Kat are supposed to return to 2025 I lost all respect for him. That respect might return, but for now, nothing.

Kat has always fought hard for her brother. She’s had patience for everything that he has done and the way that he has acted. Kat took his half-sentences and didn’t press him, but supported him.

When Jacob says he can’t leave and that he can’t lose another father – I feel for him. There should be no reason that he can’t go back and forth in time. What kills me is that when Kat says that she is responsible for Colton’s death, he doesn’t even ask her to explain. He doesn’t ask for information.

He assumes the worst.

After how hard his sister fought for him and saved his life – well, Jacob Landry, you are selfish. You are very much in the wrong.

SAVED BY KAT AND THEN DEL

When Jacob pushes Kat into the pond, I may have screamed some profanity at the screen. I don’t care, it was justified. Jacob was out of line.

I expected Kat to head back to 2025, not 1965. That was a surprise. It was a bigger surprise to me that she was the one who saved Evelyn and Colton. Kat is the one that Evelyn was talking about on the recording from the town meeting in 1965.

The White Witch saved us, Evelyn tells Colton.

Young Colton and Evelyn are the best of friends. The two of them lost each other along the way and that’s the saddest part. There’s a sense that they were meant to be, ever since they were kids.

And Del was the wrench in their fate.

It was crazy that Kat was the one to save them, especially right after she’d just let Jacob know that she blamed herself for Colton’s death. It’s telling her Mom the things that she knows about her Dad that I think will be the problem.

I think that Del will be just like Jacob and not know what to say to Kat. And that scares me.

OTHER THOUGHTS

• I love that we know that Del drew on Colton’s guitar and that it was the fish and she felt like a fish out of water
• Elliott was shaking so badly on his wedding day! Sure sign he shouldn’t be getting married
• I am glad Nick is moving back to Port Haven, but what will it change
• Is Alice going to be okay with Nick moving back?
• Sam and Casey knowing each other? This feels weird. Really weird
• What was Del going to the pond for?
• Thomas, you’re a sexy beast and an okay dancer
• Colton and Evelyn had a connection for a long time. I am not sure that could have ever changed without something drastic, so what happened?
• I wish we could have seen more of 1816 in The Way Home Season 3, Episode 6. What happened when they were caught?
• Love that Thomas had an in with the guards
• Don’t like that the guard double-crossed him.

The Way Home airs on Fridays on Hallmark.