The Way Home Season 2 Episode 1 Review: The Space Between

Our time-traveling journey begins anew with The Way Home Season 2 Episode 1 (remember to click on that hyperlink for a full recap).

The premiere, although, was truly devoid of stated touring, offering extra of a jumping-off level for the following section to start.

It’s clear the pond isn’t finished with this household, and regardless of how laborious they work to remain away, solely nature itself can stop them from taking a dip.

“The Space Between” reminds us of the way it all works.

First of all, climate is an element, as Kat and Alice quickly discovered. You can’t leap into the pond with out figuring out should you’ll be trapped underneath the ice perpetually.

There are risks concerned with time journey, even by a neighborhood household pond.

At this level within the story, not less than, the pond acts as a linear portal by time. To leap within the pond means you’ll resurface in the identical location at a unique time.

Whether that continues to be true because the sequence continues is anyone’s guess. Nobody is aware of the way it works, so I’m not ruling out popping up on one other property belonging to the household.

We noticed how the pond labored to separate Kat Landry and Alice. It has a thoughts of its personal, and till the writers set up its boundaries, all choices are on the desk.

Factoring in climate is simply a part of the equation.

If Alice weren’t close by to take part in and share the expertise with Kat, the present would change dramatically.

So, Brady Dhawan must get used to the truth that his daughter is not going to spend a lot time with him — not less than not in the course of the summer season months. It may be time to reconfigure the household calendar so Alice spends holidays with expensive previous dad.

We’ve already seen that Brady is greater than keen to journey to Canada to go to so their relationship can stay intact, and she or he can be free to spend all good climate days in Port Haven.

It might take the complete sequence run to find out how and why the pond is related to the Landry household.

But no doubt, it’s related, and it holds and divulges secrets and techniques at will.

The pond returned Alice’s bracelet to her. That’s both an act of kindness or thanks, or it means she’s acquired extra enterprise with the pond no matter what Kat says about it.

After what Alice skilled and the way impactful it was on Kat’s life that she did, it will be merciless for Alice to be sidelined so quickly within the story.

Alice isn’t a distraction, Brady. She’s the glue.

Kat

While they gave up journey for the winter months, Kat’s discovery after Evelyn Goodwin’s donation of historic artifacts to The Herald certain caught her consideration.

Uh, I assumed we have been simply speaking about a few containers. This is like the tip of an Indiana Jones film.

Kat

Jacob all the time appreciated artwork, and Kat’s thoughts was reeling with the concept she may reunite along with her brother, who might paint the portrait “My Katherine” in 1814.

If we use the Outlander time journey guidelines as our information, we all know that hearts will be torn in two, with nice loves traversing time and area.

While “My Katherine” may have been painted from a sibling’s perspective, there’s additionally a risk that within the period of time Kat finally spends in 1814, she falls in love with somebody throughout that point.

After all, issues with Elliot, whereas definitely on the upswing after his return and their likelihood to speak, should not settled.

He’s nonetheless sore about Kat’s half in her father’s loss of life — a loss he takes as personally as if Colton was his personal father.

Don’t waste any time child as a result of it’s by no means assured.

Colton [to Elliot]

It’s so attention-grabbing that he feels a lot part of their household whereas nonetheless harboring romantic love for Kat, however the coronary heart is a loopy factor, and we don’t all the time get to decide on who we love or why.

They have quite a bit to debate and uncover about one another earlier than they’re on stable floor. And if she continues touring to the previous, and she or he should if she’s to have her portrait painted in 1814, it may drive them additional aside.

Elliot Augustine’s emotions are intertwined along with his reminiscences. He can’t shake the truth that he was urged to share his emotions with Kat earlier than issues with Brady acquired too critical and that by not doing so, he misplaced her for many years.

Will he be so cussed about time journey to lose her once more?

Alice: I noticed that look between you and Elliot. Are you two collectively?
Kat: No. But we have been. After 1,000,000 years of friendship, I, we thought possibly we could possibly be extra, then, possibly we could possibly be perpetually.

Until they know of Jacob’s destiny — hell, possibly till all of them meet once more — Kat will proceed her journey by the pond. I can’t consider anyone alive who would do it any otherwise.

If a pond popped up in my yard proper now (nicely, minus the darn climate), I’d enable it to swallow me up and take me on a grand journey.

Knowing that your brother is on the market could be greater than you can bear, particularly should you had the possibility to get him again.

That’s additionally why it’s so unusual for me when Del refuses to hearken to Kat when she excitedly tells her that she believes she is aware of what occurred to Jacob.

Maybe it’s as a result of Del Landry spent a lot time alone along with her ideas, simply misplaced a lot, her daughter included, that she’s not keen to dive again into her reminiscences the identical method Kat is to hers.

Secrets are all the time revealed, although, and it’s laborious to consider the second when she discovers that Kat has been chasing after her brother by time itself, and Del was unaware.

As they work so laborious to restore their relationship, will that threaten to interrupt all of it down once more?

Not for some time, not less than, as with a neighbor promoting his property and leaving Del with unleaded acreage, she’s acquired quite a bit on her plate.

There can be a mysterious horse showing in her discipline, which a part of me desires to imagine is touring by the pond (like their canine!), and the opposite half desires it to be one thing extra substantial for Del to carry onto.

Do you suppose it’s a message of some sort for Del, or is it a extra grounded method for her to reconnect along with her land and get a brand new lease on life?

But, let’s circle again to the opening scene, which suggests Jacob understands the pond and is aware of he can return, even when an grownup tells him that now isn’t that point.

It’s laborious to think about just a little boy figuring out he may discover his method residence by a magical pond, solely to be held again for causes unknown.

Is there a higher purpose for his disappearance? Is there one thing the pond wants the Landry household to know earlier than they are often reunited? Why wouldn’t it tear aside a household so brutally?

Someday, there’s going to be just one identify left, and it is going to be Jake, after which we’ll know the place he wound up.

Kat

On lesser reveals, I’d surprise if that’s a solution we’d ever obtain, however on The Way Home, it looks like the creators know precisely the place the pond is taking us and why.

That’s so refreshing, and taking this journey with the Landry household is the higher for it.

Seven months handed within the premiere, and as quickly because the pond was secure once more, Kat escaped the current for the previous. Her present? A bullet wound.

We know she’s not going to die, nevertheless it may clarify why she’s going to be prior to now lengthy sufficient to have a portrait painted.

Will she go lacking as her brother as soon as did, leaving Alice alone, making an attempt to elucidate to a grieving household what occurred?

We’ll simply have to look at The Way Home Season 2 to find what secrets and techniques the pond is hiding, ready for us to uncover.

I hope you’re prepared for an additional participating and thrilling season and that you simply’ll share your ideas on this stunning present because the story progresses.

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