The Means House Season 3 Finale Defined (Unique)theinsiderinsight

Warning: This story comprises spoilers from the season 3 finale of The Means House.

What. The. Pond?!

The season 3 finale of Hallmark Channel’s The Means House was not messing round when it got here to packing an emotional punch and organising much more thriller for the subsequent season (coming subsequent yr!).

“It was a river of tears, for positive,” co-showrunner Heather Conkie admits to PEOPLE.

Over the course of the episode, Del (Andie MacDowell) time-traveled for the primary time and witnessed her marriage ceremony to Colton within the Nineteen Seventies, Kat (Chyler Leigh) and Elliot (Evan Williams) selected one another in a complete new means, Okay.C. (Vaughan Murrae) revealed that Susanna (Watson Rose) left Lingermore to the Landrys, Jacob (Spencer Macpherson) disappeared once more, and Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) and grownup Colton (Jefferson Brown) had an trustworthy heart-to-heart that become one doozy of a tearjerker.

After which there was that whopper of a cliffhanger that noticed a mysterious couple leaping into the pond within the Nineteen Seventies and Sam (Rob Stewart) mirroring Elliot from the present’s pilot within the current day.

Right here, showrunners (and mother-daughter duo) Conkie and Alexandra Clarke graciously assist PEOPLE break down among the key moments of the finale and reply among the most urgent questions in regards to the season’s remaining moments.

PEOPLE: I do not suppose I’ve totally rehydrated since watching the scene between Alice and grownup Colton. Was filming it as emotional as watching it?

ALEXANDRA CLARKE: Actually, I do not suppose I may even speak about that day with out bursting into tears. The primary time everybody learn the script was the forged read-through. … We had about 10 containers of Kleenex amongst us, and I keep in mind seeing Sadie and Jefferson sort of have a look at one another, and I spotted that they knew what we had been all in for. After which to be there on the day, by the pond. Our director on this one, Grant Harvey, has seen us by way of this complete collection. He and I actually did wish to carve out the time for these scenes as a result of we knew it was going to be intense. And these guys got here to play.

Being there behind the monitor with Grant — I’ll begin crying proper now — it was unimaginable. It was unimaginable to see them acknowledge one another for who they actually had been as characters. You actually are so invested in these individuals by now. To listen to Colton acknowledge Alice as his granddaughter was unforgettable. 

Actually. And I am simply going to say it: That was maybe Sadie’s greatest work thus far.

CLARKE: It was unimaginable. We’re so pleased with them as a result of as you simply mentioned, I actually do imagine it was Sadie’s greatest efficiency. We have seen her develop as an actor over these final three seasons. And to see her do that within the second, nicely, I used to be so proud in addition to so emotional about it. It was, I feel for each Sadie and Jefferson, it was an unimaginable, unimaginable efficiency. Their greatest throughout the board, each of them.

HEATHER CONKIE: The primary time I watched the footage, it was like an explosion of emotion, however having to take a seat by way of the edit collectively and watching it again and again and choosing one of the best of one of the best performances — as a result of they had been all simply exemplary and actual and true — we had been only a mess. The editor was a multitude, everybody. And after we went from there to the combination with the music added, everybody was a multitude once more. I feel we stored the Kleenex enterprise operating.

Del time-traveled for the primary time! Why was seeing her marriage ceremony the proper first soar?

CLARKE: We determined that Del’s story this season was going to be a little bit of a private assault on her reminiscences. As a result of now rapidly Alice goes again to the ’70s and seeing them from one other perspective and seeing them from arguably Evelyn’s lens and coming again to the current and informing her grandmother about, “Properly, that is not the best way I noticed it, grandma. Really, it was this manner,” and feeling that sort of invasion. The battle that Alice and Del have in episode 5 of, “Keep out of my reminiscences” is precisely how Del felt by way of the whole season.

However then it wasn’t simply Alice attacking these reminiscences. It was all of these items they had been discovering about Colton and the secrets and techniques he stored and the truth that he was a time traveler and knew in regards to the pond. And he or she simply spirals a bit, asking herself, “Are my reminiscences actual the best way I remembered it, which is that this excellent, pure love story up till our son disappeared? Is that really what it was?” She begins questioning her personal decisions and Colton’s decisions. She thinks possibly she made him hand over a music profession, and possibly the explanation he stored these secrets and techniques in regards to the pond was as a result of he resented her not directly. Every part has been thrown into query for her about her love story with Colton and the way she remembers it.

So as a way to give her this large redemptive second, she had to return and see what’s arguably the beginning of a chapter of their love story, but in addition the fortunately ever after second of their teenage love story, which is that this marriage ceremony. To know that her reminiscences are hers, to know that she wasn’t incorrect, she should not have doubt their love. It was precisely as she remembered it.

Kat and Elliot had a bumpy season collectively however in the end selected one another for who they’re within the current, moderately than permitting historical past to outline them as a pair. Was that at all times the journey you meant for them this season?

CLARKE: The factor that was actually essential for Kat and Elliot this season was to acknowledge that they’ve burdened one another with previous expectations and views on the opposite. They wanted to scrub the slate in the event that they had been going to try to transfer ahead. From Elliot’s perspective, he needed to acknowledge that he is at all times put Kat on this excellent pedestal so when she does make errors — and everyone knows Kat could be very able to making errors as a result of she leads together with her coronary heart and never at all times together with her thoughts — Elliot, who overthinks all the things and over-analyzes earlier than he even acts, holds it towards her. And he needed to acknowledge that that is on him. That is not on her.

Conversely, Kat needed to acknowledge that she’s at all times seen him as her greatest buddy who’s at all times going to be there it doesn’t matter what mistake she makes. She wanted to acknowledge that she needed to cease taking him as a right. To clear the air in that means was actually essential for no matter step comes subsequent. They wanted to place the previous behind them, actually. Perhaps not essentially from a time journey perspective, however I really like that concept of we are able to go to the previous, however let’s not stay in our previous.

Let’s get into this bonkers cliffhanger. Elliot receives the word his mom wrote, after which we see a word slipped into child Elliot’s basket. To substantiate, are these notes one and the identical?

CLARKE: Sure, it’s the identical word. Whether or not or not it is the entire word is the query.

As a result of Colton’s mysterious brother is on the market someplace — extra on that in a sec — can we verify that the infant is certainly the kid of Vic Augustine and the lady who jumps within the pond?

CLARKE: Properly, Elliot is certainly not a Landry is what we are able to say. I feel one of the best half about this present is that nothing is simple. Every part is a solution begets a query. I am so intrigued to listen to individuals’s theories about what they suppose occurred in that remaining millisecond of the present.

CONKIE: It is related in a solution to the top of our earlier season with Colton watching the fireworks. So it is a very related sort of ending, which begs questions, which we love.

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I am positive you will not have the ability to totally reply this, however who the heck is Sam? May he be Colton’s brother?

CLARKE: I am hoping everyone seems to be asking that by the top of this season! And I hope individuals acknowledge that we went to the difficulty of posing him precisely as Elliot posed on the pond on the finish of our pilot episode. And he says the very same phrases. On the finish of our very first episode, it was Kat on the telephone with Elliot saying, “I do not know the place Alice is. What if she does not come house?” And Elliot saying, “Don’t be concerned, she’s going to.” And he or she says, “Properly, how are you aware that Elliot? How are you aware that?” And he says, “I simply do.” After which we reveal him on the pond. We had been very decided to have historical past repeat itself. We love these moments of the previous echoing within the current and the cyclical factor that we do the place the previous is rarely gone. Perhaps that in and of itself may inform individuals one thing about Sam.

You guys are breaking my mind.

CONKIE: The story room breaks everyone’s mind. So inform people who.

The Means House is on the market to stream on Hallmark+.