The Way Home, Season Three: Magic and Music

I binged the third season of The Way Home the past few days on Peacock -- it started airing on the Hallmark Channel a couple of months ago, week by week, and I enjoy the series far too much watch it doled out like that.

Here's what I really liked about this third season [yeah, spoilers ahead]:

• The music was fabulous.  The scene with Kat and Eliot singing Sister Hazel's "All for You" in the first season was one of the highlights of that season, and the third season had lots of music highlights.  But they weren't so much the songs as the top-notch performances.  Young Cole (played by Jordan Doww) has a great voice, whatever he sings, and when he's joined by time-traveling Alice ( Sadie Laflamme-Snow) the resulting harmony is pure magic.
• There was a lot more time-traveling to various years in the past, and it'll be no surprise that I really enjoyed that, because time travel (and the related alternate history genre) are my favorite kinds of stories to read, watch on a screen, write, and sing about.  (But here I'll also say that the pool as the time travel vehicle is feeling a bit too magical for my taste, just as the stones are for Outlander.)
• Kat's other love in past. Thomas Coyle (Kris Holden-Reid) has real charm, and I hope we see more of him next season.
• It was really good to find out so much more about Del's back story, including a lot of focus of young Del (Julia Tomasone) falling in love with young Colton, who pretty quickly is head-over-heels in love with Del.

Here's what I didn't care for, all that much.  Not too many things, because the narrative was pretty tightly woven.  But the villains were a little too much comic-bookish, especially that guy in the past, Cyrus Gordon, who seems ready to kill at the drop of a hat.  Not mention that he's so unpleasant and unpleasant-looking, that it's difficult to imagine why anyone would ever marry him for whatever reason, especially his beautiful wife.

But this third season has real heart, and, notwithstanding what I said about Thomas in the past, I'm really glad Kat and Elliot finally seem to getting together on a more permanent basis.  The series in general always had a certain sweet and beautiful charm -- refreshing in this age of cynicism -- and that seems to be increasing with every new season.  I'll see you back here when the fourth season is up someplace where I stream it to my heart's content.

See also: The Way Home, Season One: Somewhere Between Outlander and The Time Traveler's Wife

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