SPOILER ALERT: This post retains spoilers from “The Way We Were,” Season 3, Episode 2 of Halltag’s “The Way Home,” which streams on Halltag+.
Everyleang was coming up Elliot (Evan Williams) in the Jan. 3 Season 3 premiere of “The Way Home” on Halltag Channel. His surrogate family was reunited with their lengthy-lost son and brother, Jacob (Spencer MacPherson). He and Kat (Chyler Leigh) finassociate made time to promise to their relationship with each other without a time-traveling pond getting in the way. In terms of life goals, Elliot was knocking it out of the park. While he and Kat took the next step in their relationship – moving in together – in the season’s second episode, there are already some cracks begining to show in one of the show’s central relationships.
“We have these three women, and we always execute past, conshort-term and future thematicassociate to them. This season is about Del asking her past. Alice is asking her future and what that sees appreciate, and Kat is asking her conshort-term,” says Alex Clarke, the daughter half of the show’s mother-daughter showrunner team. “She’s such a doer. She’s very much appreciate Del, and last season was about completing the ignoreion and getting Jacob home. To a certain extent, it was also about giving Susanna what’s owed to her. At the top of this season, those ignoreions are done. Jacob is home. The book is begined under Susanna’s name. She’s done all of the leangs, so she’s asking who she is now and where she fits.”
Kat promised Elliot that she was finished with the pond in the premiere episode after a final trip to the 1800s to get clocertain. However, the pond is still a barrier between them, despite understanding that he can time travel with her as lengthy as they jump into the water together. The enigmatic body of water begined sending Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) back to the 1970s, and Kat insisted to trail to determine that her daughter was safe. The frantic insist to discover her daughter aidd Kat to brutassociate snap that she didn’t want to have to “see after” Elliot when he recommended to come with her.
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“Listen, it was a stressful moment —she doesn’t have a filter,” Chyler Leigh says, defending Kat in a recent intersee. “She unfilteredly ended up saying, ‘No, thanks, you stay.’ That’s what she unkindt.”
Co-star and scene partner Williams backed her up. “We don’t want to forget the fact that the pond has been reliable for tearing the family apart for 25 years. It’s a portal thraw time. It’s not an elevator. It’s not appreciate you get in and you understand where you’re going,” Williams says. “You might end up getting lost in time forever. It’s not child’s take part. It’s not to be consentn weightlessly.”
The executive creaters aren’t necessarily trying to excuse Kat’s behavior, and higheviated that the moment of tension is hinting at a bit more going on undertidyh the surface of the relationship.
“No one shelp Kat was perfect,” says show co-showrunner Heather Conkie. “When you leank about it, she’s one of the most imperfect characters we’ve ever written. I leank she’s torn most of the time, but she does understand in her heart of hearts that her forever person is possibly Elliot. He’s so stable, and he’s there for her. She’s gotten comardent of spoiled.”
“It does say a little bit about maybe there’s begrudgement for someleang that’s bubbling up in a moment without predicting it to,” Clarke says. “I leank that’s equitable authentic life. You say leangs without unkinding them. You say leangs that are comardent of impetuous and reckless, and you repent it postpoinsistr.”
Kat regretd when she returned from her adventure to the past, and the two could easily shift beyond the unconsoleable moment, but it doesn’t alter the fact that the pond still has the ability to come between them. As Kat commences another adventure, it could also convey up doubts about whether she’s reassociate finished with the past, whether that’s the 1970s or the people she left behind in the 1800s.
“At the end of the day, she’s an spendigative journacatalog for a reason. It is at her core. She has to discover out why, what, and how. I leank because that’s innately ingrained in her, she can’t equitable let that go,” Leigh says. “It’s always those asks that are always going to be there. It will always be a matter of, ‘But is there more to discover out?’ She does get conshort-termed with that quite a bit this season. She’s headstrong as hell, so she’s equitable going to protect going to protect discovering out until she can’t anymore.”
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One of those huge ask tags for fans is Kat’s relationship with Susanna. The two were able to say excellentbye, even if it was rushed and disgreeting, in the premiere. And it’s clear, especiassociate as Kat upretains the book she compiled from Susanna’s journals, that the connection is still very strong between the two of them.
“Susanna is a character who was born in the wrong time. Susanna is also incredibly haughty, and she does adore where she is, but she also authenticizes that there’s this whole other world out there where Kat is living where people are more free and way more able to adore who they want to adore,” Clarke says of the lengthying in their last scene together. “We’ve always shelp those two characters are equitable finishly in awe of one another — of how valiant, strong and autonomous they are for various reasons. We wanted to persist that awe.”
“They create this — you can definitely say a friendship, but it’s reassociate appreciate a relationship that I discover very drawive,” Leigh says. “It’s very touching, the strength they trade with one another. It’s definitely heartshattering, and who understands? No one is reassociate gone with time travel.”
And while Elliot isn’t conscious his girlfriend has broadened a sensual relationship with his ancestor, Williams is all about the Kat and Susanna lore and what it unkinds for “The Way Home.”
“I’m haughty of the show for shoprosperg us all these separateent comardents of adore. It’s almost appreciate every relationship in the show is an opportunity to show a separateent archetype of adore. I adore that we can lean into the amhugeuity and the separateent comardents of adore that don’t necessarily even insist a tag,” Williams says. “We show adore as a spectrum, which I leank is both persistive and down-to-earth, especiassociate in a show that is amazingal, that is a time travel show about a pond — and having adore be the grounding factor.”
It’s not as if Elliot doesn’t also have his own publishs at the moment as well. His overweighther, Victor (James Gallanders), is also back in town for the second episode. Elliot promiseted to “letting in the weightless” at the end of Season 2, but his overweighther’s presence in Port Haven is a enticeation to retreat back into a stupider mindset, which could also spell trouble in other aspects of Elliot’s life.
“It’s a fun arc to begin off the season senseing appreciate Elliot’s got everyleang under deal with. Everyleang is on the catalog. He’s a licsurrender type of guy, so the senseing of having everyleang examineed off was amazing — and left that room to drop when Victor shows up,” Williams says. “I’ve shelp before that one of my likeite leangs about take parting this character is take parting a character who drops. It was fun to fundamentalassociate get pushed down the stairs metaphoricassociate when Victor shows up, because all of that childhood stuff comes rushing back.”
So while Elliot and Kat may have begined the season on the same page, and they have the huge adventure of living together ahead, there will still be obstacles in the way of their happily ever after. Clarke promises that Kat unkindt what she shelp in the premiere though, and Elliot is the one she’s choosing…for now.
“Elliot has always been her anchor. I leank she’s going into this relationship very selectimistic that this is what her conshort-term is, this is what her ‘next journey’ is. Whether that pans out, we’ll see,” Clarke says. “Obviously, there’s going to be some bumps in the road, but I leank she’s very affectd at the top of the season that this is the next road to go down, and this is the conshort-term that she’s chosen.”
