‘The Way Home’ Creators Hint at What’s Next for Kat’s ‘Confusing’ Love Triangle: ‘It’s an Impossible Situation’
variety.comEmily Longeretta For anyone who watches “The Way Home” knows that sometimes, it can get a little confusing with so many different time periods going on at once.
That’s the case for the executive producers too. During an FYC panel for the hit Hallmark Channel series on May 8, the showrunners admitted that it takes a lot of work and research to keep everything straight. “We start at the end and then kind of work backward.
We had a wonderful plan right from the start when Marly Reed created the show and wrote a beautiful bible for it. Alex and I were just so lucky to be part of it and develop it,” said co-showrunner Heather Conkie, referring to her daughter and co-showrunner, Alexandra Clarke. “We really had a three, four, five-year plan?
And we’re now working on the third year. We see what worked from the first two years and it’s a process. It’s mind-bending, because of all the Easter Eggs… I can’t even keep track of them!” During Season 2 of “The Way Home,” a new timeline was explored; in addition to the present day and the 90s, Kat (Chyler Leigh) went back even further to 1814 to find her brother, Jacob (Spencer Macpherson).
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