The Way Home Season 3, Episode 7, “Tell Me Something Good” Spoilers Ahead
The Way Home’s “Tell Me Something Good” accelerates almost all our plotlines. We’re finally starting to unravel Casey’s identity, Sam’s history, and Jacob’s emotions. Unfortunately, the ’70s again take a backseat to the 1800s. What started out as a lighter, cozier season is getting dark again fast.
Coming to Terms With Tragedy
Bringing back the 1800s proved worthwhile in The Way Home Season 3, Episode 7, “Tell Me Something Good.” It felt absolutely right that his 1800s family and friends convinced Jacob to return to the present. Susanna secretly summons him to Lingermore, where (as we expected) she’s in the attic. Thomas barges in, thinking he’s going to play hero. It takes the combined efforts of conversations with Elijah, Susanna, and Thomas to finally convince Jacob to go home. After all, Cyrus’s truce won’t last forever, and as all three of them point out — Kat is bearing enormous guilt, too.
Back in the present day, Del is struggling with Kat’s revelation. She can barely look at Kat, and Alice feels guilty for letting Kat take the whole blame. Ultimately, Alice confesses her role to Del. After watching Kat sing at the café (more on that in a moment), Del reconciles with her. They’re both crying, and we’re all crying. Later, Kat promises to go get Jacob back — and Del decides to come too! But we don’t get time-traveling Del (yet) because Jacob walks in the door.
Alice finds Jacob at the pond later and asks why he’s okay with her but still blames Kat. Spencer MacPherson is getting such great material to work with — all of Jacob’s layers of mistrust and trauma. He’s still struggling to figure out where (and when) he belongs. Alice offers to bring Jacob to the one person she trusts when she can’t talk to Kat: Elliot.
Not only is it a nice reminder of Alice and El’s bond, but it gives us a very sweet scene. In the past, Jacob got advice from Thomas; in the present, it’s Elliot he’s leaning on. Elliot shares his own experience with losing his mom. He even tells Jacob about his “five more minutes” with Colton. Kat almost walks in, but when she hears them talking about Colton, she instead smiles and leaves them alone.
I just really, really love how open this show’s male characters are with their emotions. All our leading men are in touch with their feelings — and not just with their love interests or immediate family, but with each other, too. It’s a very cool, anti-toxic-masculinity universe, and I’m here for it.
Confirming Theories and Creating New Ones
Show of hands: did anyone not think Casey was a time traveler? Okay, good. But if there were any lingering doubts, The Way Home Season 3, Episode 7, “Tell Me Something Good,” put them to rest. Casey shows back up again and admits they’re not Lewis’s kid. Now, they now claim to be his second cousin. They explain the previous year as a really rough year for them and their summer working with the Landrys as a meaningful escape.
A secondary plotline, though, indicates Casey is still lying. When Alice goes to Lingermore to work on a lab with Max, she finds a chess piece, an empty coffee cup, and a burner phone in the attic. Max brushes it off with a comment about his dad thinking they had squatters. He also gets testy when Alice brings up Evelyn (and Colton). But later, he turns in their lab and praises Alice’s contributions to Elliot, who mentions that Max was close to Evelyn.
There’s also the Sam of it all. Sam tells Del that he worked with Casey on some pro-bono legal consulting. But he obviously can’t give more details because of attorney-client privilege. It also leads to the biggest fight yet between Sam and Del. He points out that there’s obviously more to Jacob’s disappearance (which Del hilariously cites as “mother-son privilege”). And then he goes for the low blow. He tells Del that just because she couldn’t always trust Colton, it doesn’t mean she shouldn’t trust him. Ouch. And uncalled-for.
Alice remains suspicious and with good reason. When she finds Casey on the Landry property, Casey is super shady. Alice asks them about the ring they wear. When she prods about which family’s heirloom it is, Casey takes off. Alice chases them through the forest… and watches them jump into the pond.
Round the Romantic Merry-Go-Round
You know, I had really high hopes in the first phase of the season. Hallmark shows tend to drag out romantic storylines until they squeeze out every bit of drama, and no one is happy. With Kat and Elliot being mature adults about their relationship, I thought we might finally break the mold.
Alas, the lure of the soap opera is too much in The Way Home Season 3, Episode 7, “Tell Me Something Good,” and our beloved characters are the worse for it. I appreciate that Elliot told Kat almost right away about the kiss with Emma and that he didn’t try to make excuses or make it sound “better.” I appreciate that Kat recognized they need space to figure things out while all the Jacob stuff is happening, too. And I appreciate that Thomas (at least initially) says, “Enough” after failing to pond-jump.
But then. Kat lands in the 1800s and vents to Thomas about Elliot kissing Emma. Thomas just kind of yanks her in and kisses her, telling her that now she’s kissed someone else, too. Are we in high school? I said last week that it felt like the show was trying to “even the score.” But I didn’t think we were going to be so literal about it! It’s so silly and so soapy that I struggle to take it (or the characters) seriously. The rest of the show is so emotionally grounded and mature that it feels a disservice to throw this in there.
Time Cast a Spell on You
I have mixed feelings about the big Kat/Elliot scene of The Way Home Season 3, Episode 7, “Tell Me Something Good.” Nick, aka the world’s biggest Kalliot shipper, enlists Alice to plan a karaoke night to help smooth things over. Things get a little over-dramatic, though, when Nick and Alice fail to coordinate on the music.
To his credit, Nick remembers that Alice requested ’70s music, not ’90s. Unfortunately, Nick is still Nick, and he picked out a song that sounded like a nice song about nature… Fleetwood Mac’s “Silver Springs.” Yeah, that song. The one from the clip everyone knows. The “You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman who loved you” song. And, as the star-crossed duo sings about great love and lost love and breakups and forever feelings, we flashback to a montage of their relationship so far. We revisit the moment on the stairs at Lingermore, their weepy hug after Kat found Jacob, their fierce kiss outside Elliot’s house, and their fireside “I want you to choose me.”
It’s a good reminder of just how deep the bonds (and love, and hurt) between them run. It’s complicated, and it is messy. Chyler Leigh and Evan Williams do a phenomenal job capturing all the little twists of emotion. Honestly, it helps make up for the kind-of-melodramatic concept.
And as a sidebar, I genuinely love the way music is woven so naturally into this show. It’s not a “musical” show, but it’s a show where music matters deeply to the characters. It captures the way that music can be a way of connecting with each other and making powerful memories. And it understands, in a very ’90s way, how important a soundtrack is to creating a story universe.
An Unexpected (Almost) Proposal
Even the ’70s aren’t a respite from love-triangle hell in The Way Home Season 3, Episode 7, “Tell Me Something Good.” But at least this one feels more realistic (given that, you know, they’re actually teenagers). Colton is devastated that Del has to leave the next day. He seems to acknowledge, during a car ride with Alice, that the message he left for Evie in the Alice books meant something… but also that things have “changed” so much since he wrote that note.
And oh boy, have they. He turns up to sing one last song for Del on her last day in Port Haven. But their goodbye ends abruptly when Evelyn drives up to give Del a ride. Colton snaps at Evelyn (ouch), but Del tells him to let her go. And, with one more kiss, he does. As he goes to leave, though, a small box falls out of his jacket — and, yeah, it’s that kind of box. Alice puts two and two together, and he half-heartedly denies it. She assures him things will be fine.
It’s not the last we see of teen Colton, though. In the present, Jacob goes to play Colton’s old demo, and a photo of ’70s Del and Colton falls out. Jacob is shocked — because he recognizes young Cole’s face as the boy who told his family to plant the crops that helped them survive 1816!
What I’m Pondering
- I’ve definitely been watching this show too long, because my mind is spinning with theories about Nick’s unseen girlfriend Claire. In reality, I’m sure casting just wants to keep options open. But approximately 1% of my brain thinks there’s more to it.
- Speaking of Nick, I love that his reaction to Kat heading out to pond-jump is, “Can I watch?” This man just might be the most well-adjusted character on TV.
- Some things never change. When the pond won’t let Kat jump to Jacob, and she’s devastated, she runs straight to Elliot, who lets her cry and holds her tight.
- Sam has been lying about visiting his grandkids. He’s actually been working on a case, trying to stop a white-collar criminal from getting out on appeal. And he lost the case. Not sure yet how this will tie in, but I’m sure it will.
- Rita thinks Sam might be connected to Del’s threatening letters. “If there’s one thing I learned from 12 seasons of Murder, She Wrote, it’s always the person you least expect!” Never change, Rita.
- If Teen Colton traveled to the 1800s and met Adult Jacob without either of them realizing who they were, does that mean Adult Colton most likely named his son after… his son? My head hurts.
- Thomas tries to jump through the pond, but it rejects him. Looks like Elliot’s theory holds for now: no jumping forward, and no jumping at all without the help of a Landry. And Thomas still has his own family to found at some point.
- I love the running theme of time-traveling Kat and Alice bonding with younger versions of Colton while out driving.
- The upside to the karaoke night: a reminder that Chyler Leigh and Evan Williams are both very musically talented!
- Jacob takes an interest in Elliot’s mystery clock, noting that he and Colton used to make projects of these kinds of things.
- “When was the last time the four of us hung out?” “January 2000. The night Alice dumped you.”
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