[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Way Home Season 3 premiere, “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.”]
For 2 seasons, Del (Andie MacDowell) was stored at nighttime in regards to the time touring her daughter Kat (Chyler Leigh) and granddaughter Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) have been doing utilizing the pond on the household’s property. In The Method Residence Season 3 premiere, that modifications, as a result of her son Jacob (Spencer MacPherson), who fell into the pond as a baby and grew up within the 1800s, returns dwelling. The one strategy to clarify his reappearance is with the reality.
For MacDowell, it was about taking part in the “shock” of that second, after Del believed Jacob was lifeless, in addition to the confusion. “I look to see the best way he’s dressed,” she factors out. “It’s lots to absorb. It’s lots to digest. After which to really feel like a fierce mama bear to need to defend him, that may be a pure response for a mom who will get her youngster again, who’s disappeared to need to defend him to be his mom, however but he’s a person.”
To have Del be taught the reality as she does is “actually overwhelming” and “bittersweet,” provides Leigh. “There’s a line that I actually admire that Kat finally ends up saying to Del afterwards. It’s like, ‘Wow, I’m sorry we simply unleashed all of that on you directly, however there’s no easy means of claiming it.’ So that you simply bought to go, ‘Right here’s the paper, learn it, after which let’s talk about. And also you inform me your questions after.’”
She factors out that Elliot (Evan Williams) “turns into type of like a touchstone for Del as soon as she begins to know that we’re going again in time, we’re doing all this touring that she had no thought about. I feel Elliot’s type of a pleasant, grounded means of claiming to her, ‘It’s what it’s. What occurs will at all times occur.’ You see the moments of her going, how will you simply sit right here whereas all of that is taking place? After which Elliot type of will get to have that second of simply going, we simply bought to attend and see. So it’s an fascinating endurance that he has to show a reasonably impatient lady.”
However Del studying the reality is just the start of the wild revelations of the Season 3 premiere. Under, the solid and govt producers Alexandra Clarke and Heather Conkie break down the remainder of the main moments and tease what’s forward.
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Who pushed Alice into the pond?
On the finish of the premiere, proper after Alice discovers indicators that another person has been utilizing the pond, she’s pushed into it from behind! When she lands and who did that might be answered in subsequent episodes.
“I at all times get excited when there’s a brand new means to make use of the pond,” says Laflamme-Snow. “We noticed Thomas [Kris Holden-Ried] problem Kat out to the sting of the pond, and he or she was making an attempt to show her level and so she falls in. We’ve seen folks making an attempt to get away from sure conditions. However we’d by no means seen an unknown determine utilizing the pond in opposition to somebody like that. And so I had chills.”
There might be clues in upcoming episodes for the season-long thriller, and the reveal is “down the street,” says Clarke.
“There’s a spot the place you suppose it’s type of solved and what we like to do is peel the onion of that thriller a bit of bit extra all through the season,” she continues. “I bear in mind us being within the room speaking about this season, issues we’ve by no means seen with the pond, and all of us sat there, properly, we’ve by no means seen somebody get deliberately pushed. All of us simply checked out one another and went, properly, there’s your Episode 1 finish.”
However who was that individual? Laflamme-Snow thinks Alice thinks it’s Casey (Vaughan Murrae), since she thinks they’re a time traveler after seeing them together with her mom’s engagement ring.
Who’s sending Del threatening notes?
To elucidate Jacob’s reappearance, the household lies and says Jacob was discovered on a shore with no reminiscence of who he was or what occurred and brought in by a household residing off the grid, who solely advised him the reality on their deathbeds. However Del receives a notice studying, “Your lie is understood. Time will inform.” She retains it from the others.
“I don’t suppose she needs to upset anybody,” explains MacDowell. A part of it’s also worry in addition to “not eager to burst the bubble of getting issues considerably regular once more. She doesn’t need her son to be scared and to fret him that one thing may go fallacious. He already has a lot he has to take care of.”
As Clarke factors out, the household’s story about Jacob — which the writers envisioned as Kat saying, from her perspective as a journalist, that the very best traces stick near the reality — “has holes. What was vital to us was to ascertain that you could’t tie this up with a bow. There’s simply no means.”
And so there’s somebody who’s selecting aside that story. “Over the season, we’ve got a number of purple herrings [about], who is that this individual?” admits Conkie. “That’s one thing that may even be revealed a lot later.”
Clarke’s wanting ahead to seeing the theories from followers. “Completely there’s multiple suspect,” she notes.
How will Kat address understanding her father time-traveled?
The tip of Season 2 revealed that Colton (Jefferson Brown) used the pond, and now, within the current, Kat is selecting up on clues about this side of her father she knew nothing about, together with the lyrics of one in all his songs from the Nineteen Seventies — and Alice’s voice is on the report with him! Leigh says it’s “disheartening” for Kat to study it this fashion.
“It’s much like the scenario the place Del says, the truth that I didn’t know this was taking place, I ought to have been there for you. I ought to have recognized that you just guys have been going backwards and forwards and whatnot and making an attempt to avoid wasting Jacob and produce him again,” explains Leigh. “It’s comparable in that sense the place it’s like, God, if he had spoken about it, perhaps one thing else may have occurred or we may have modified the longer term. We may have modified circumstances.”
Nevertheless, she continues, “We do at all times come again to what occurs will at all times occur, however it positive provides quite a lot of nice twists and turns for the season. You get to see the layers peel off, and it’s only a matter of how can they arrive to phrases and are available to grips with him having recognized and having to lie about sure issues. It’s undoubtedly a problem. So it appears like there’s a little bit of a betrayal, however then additionally on the similar time, we’re simply making an attempt to dig deeper and perceive increasingly more as to how burdened he should have been by it as properly.”
Williams factors out that this is rather like different points of The Method Residence: “The answer, when it’s introduced, creates extra issues. And so even one thing that’s seemingly linear like Jacob coming dwelling, it looks as if, wow, it’ll resolve all the things, however that’s not how life works. And it’s actually not how time journey works. And so I don’t suppose audiences are going to be prepared for a few of the twists and turns.”
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How will Jacob modify to being dwelling?
To Kat’s shock, she learns (after touring through the pond again to 1814) that Jacob didn’t select to return dwelling; he needed to with a purpose to escape jail or worse. “Why not” add that wrinkle, laughs Conkie. It’s a part of displaying that “Jacob isn’t an open guide. In his life in 1814, the 1800s, he needed to have a number of wiles, needed to learn to survive in an enormous means. So it’s not shocking that he lies at occasions or covers up or makes up a narrative that sounds higher than the true one. It simply provides that further layer of oh my God, he didn’t need to come dwelling. He had no alternative.”
This additionally performs into displaying that simply grew to become Jacob got here dwelling doesn’t imply there’s a cheerful ending.
“That’s by no means the case. Any fortunately ever after that exists, there’s at all times the after and there’s a brand new story there and what’s that new story? One of many actual joys of this season for us was actually breaking down how Jacob thrives or exists or doesn’t thrive inside this contemporary world and in the end finds himself in,” says Clarke. “As a result of it’s not straightforward and it’s not simply capable of be tied up [in a bow]. That’s life. If you happen to truly have a look at the truth of him and his life, how may being thrust again right into a 2025 world be only a completely happy skip down the street?”
It’s turning one thing “outlandish” into one thing “very actual in how he copes and pondering he’s okay after which reliving some traumas primarily based off of a bit of set off that comes out of nowhere,” the EP shares. “That’s how folks address grief, with trauma, with the hand that has been dealt to them, is I feel folks initially type of gloss it over as, I’m high-quality, all the things’s high-quality. After which one thing will come out of nowhere and slap you throughout the face and also you notice you’re not completely high-quality, you haven’t handled it but, you’re compartmentalizing. That was one thing that basically intrigued us in regards to the Jacob story this 12 months and definitely intrigued Spencer as properly. He took it very severely.”
It’s additionally about how these round him take care of his return, which we’ll see going ahead. “It has a ricochet,” says Conkie.
What did you consider the Season 3 premiere? Who do you suppose pushed Alice into the pond? Who’s sending these letters? Tell us your theories within the feedback part under.
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