‘The Way Home’ Season 2: Andie MacDowell and Sadie Laflamme-Snow

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(L to R) Andie MacDowell and Sadie Laflamme-Snow star in ‘The Way Home’ season 2.

Premiering on the Hallmark Channel January 21st is the second season of the popular series ‘The Way Home,’ which stars Chyler Leigh (‘Supergirl’), Sadie Laflamme-Snow (‘Cascade’), and Andie MacDowell (‘Hudson Hawk,’ ‘Groundhog Day’).

Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Andie MacDowell and Sadie Laflamme-Snow about their work on ‘The Way Home’ season 2, where season one left off for their characters, the consequences of time-travel, and what fans can expect from the new season.

(L to R) Sadie Laflamme-Snow and Andie MacDowell at the premiere of ‘The Way Home’ season 2. Photo: Hallmark Channel.

Moviefone: To begin with, Sadie, can you talk about where season one left off for Alice and where we’ll find her at the beginning of season two?

Sadie Laflamme-Snow: So, at the beginning of season one, Kat receives a letter from Del, her mother, saying, “Why don’t you come home?” So, she picks up and moves her teenage daughter Alice to Port Haven. That letter is what brings them together and starts unfolding this saga of trying to figure out what happened to Jacob, Del’s son who disappeared as a child. So, the whole time Del keeps saying, “I never sent that letter,” and they keep brushing it off. Then at the end, Alice is trying to get back to the past and to her friends and she arrives in the months leading up to when she first arrived in Port Haven. So, she realizes that her purpose there was to take the letter that Del has thrown in the trash thinking, “I’m not going to reach out to my daughter. I can’t do it. It’s too painful.” I take the letter from the trash and bring it to the mailbox. That letter is what sets us up for the start of season one. So, at the end of season one, we realized there’s still some hope left for finding Jacob. Kat has an idea of where he might be. Season two picks up right from where we left off. Not a moment passes. We see the fallout of Kat making that statement of, “I know where Jacob is,” and we just jump right off from there and it picks up with that momentum that we had at the end of season one.

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Andie MacDowell at the premiere of ‘The Way Home’ season 2. Photo: Hallmark Channel.

MF: Andie, can you talk about what Del went through emotionally in season one and what fans can expect from her in season two?

Andie MacDowell: For me, I feel like Del has put on a suit of armor because she doesn’t have anyone. She’s lost everyone. She lost her husband, she lost her son, she lost her daughter, and she never got to meet her granddaughter. So, I think that strength comes from severe loneliness. I think underneath it all, she’s a very lonely soul. When we end the season, she can’t even open her heart to this man, though I don’t think he was the right man for her anyway. So that’s where you end up with her at the end of season one. In season two, I was hoping there was going to be something a bit lighter for her, but I loved what they gave me. I was really surprised with what they gave me. I have some strong, powerful moments as a 65-year-old woman that I think are interesting to see for other women my age. They’ll be intrigued, I think, to see the opportunities that they gave me.

Sadie Laflamme-Snow at the premiere of ‘The Way Home’ season 2. Photo: Hallmark Channel.

MF: Finally, Sadie can you talk about the time-travel component to the show, and will the series get a bit darker in season two?

SLS: There’s a part of the pond that we haven’t discovered yet in season one. We kick off season two with the pond showing Kat and Alice whose boss, I guess. They realize that on top of the consequences of going back and integrating yourself in times that have already happened and what that means for your family, and especially with them, the way they tried to intervene with Colton’s death and how they realized that they ended up causing it. There are also just things about the pond, the way that it works, where it can send you and what it’s capable of that are unexpected and unfamiliar. So, there is, I guess you could say a dark side, but at the same time it adds an interesting layer of adventure. I think you realize that these women are strong, courageous and determined to get the answers that they need, even though there’s a certain amount of risk involved. So, it makes it super exciting, and I think it’s just nice to take the pond in an even more profound place.

(L to R) Sadie Laflamme-Snow and Andie MacDowell at the premiere of ‘The Way Home’ season 2. Photo: Hallmark Channel.

What is the plot of ‘The Way Home’ Season 2?

In the first season, the multigenerational family drama introduced viewers to Kat Landry (Chyler Leigh), her teen daughter Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) and Kat’s mother Del (Andie MacDowell), three generations of women who are strong, willful and independent. After being estranged for nearly two decades following the unsolved disappearance of Kat’s eight-year-old brother Jacob (Remy Smith) and untimely death of family patriarch Colton Landry (Jefferson Brown) that prompted Kat to move away from her Canadian farm town of Port Haven, Kat moves back with Alice when she finds herself at a crossroads in life. Shortly after arriving, Alice unwittingly discovers the ability to travel between the past and present via a pond on the family’s land. Soon, Kat and Alice become determined to unearth the truth about these past tragedies and attempt to change the course of events. Elliot (Evan Williams), Kat’s childhood friend who always held a torch for her, is there in the present to help guide both in their journey, as well as in the past for Alice as his teen self (David Webster).

Season two starts where the shocking season one finale left off and had viewers on the edge of their seats – with Kat exclaiming to Del that she knows what happened to Jacob. As Kat continues her quest to find Jacob and bring him home, she and Alice uncover unexpected revelations about their origins that bring answers to some questions while new ones are raised.