The Way Home Season 4 Has an Official Premiere Date
We’ve got a date, Port Haven fans. Hallmark Channel has officially announced that the fourth and final season of The Way Home will premiere Sunday, April 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, with episodes streaming the next day on Hallmark+. People Magazine broke the news exclusively, and as always, friend of the podcast Breanne L. Heldman had the scoop first.
We’ve been tracking every update since Season 4 was confirmed as the final season, and now it’s real. Mark your calendars. April 19 is officially a holiday.
What’s Coming in Season 4?
The Landry women are heading somewhere new, and we mean that literally. The time-traveling pond is pulling the family all the way back to 1925, giving us the Roaring Twenties, Port Haven style.
The official logline reads:
“New journeys and revelations await the Landry family across generations. At the beginning of season 4, Alice is about to graduate high school, Kat and Elliot dream of the next steps for their relationship, while Del realizes she will soon be an empty-nester again. But Del, Kat, Alice and Elliot should know by now that no matter how hard they try to focus on the future, the past is never gone. As more mysteries are unearthed, the Port Haven of the past and the Landry family of generations before might just contain the answers they seek.”
Executive producers Heather Conkie and Alexandra Clarke told People that the season is all about “new beginnings and uncertain futures,” adding that “lingering questions about the past still haunt them” even as Alice approaches high school graduation. They also teased that Alice makes “a shocking new discovery” that sends the family back to the pond and into a whole new era.
As for what the 1920s will look like? Per the EPs in People: it’s “a world of decadent deco glitz and dark dangerous shadows, where flappers and bootleggers run rampant.” We’ll also see a very special Landry family member is waiting there to propel the story forward.
The EPs also made a promise to fans in the exclusive People piece: this final season is “filled with suspense, laughter, heart and heartbreak. Questions may be answered but at unexpected and life-changing costs.” Read that however you need to, then go stock up on tissues.
Say it with us now: We’re not ready!
Who’s Back and Who’s New
The full present-day Landry clan is returning: Andie MacDowell, Chyler Leigh, Evan Williams, Sadie Laflamme-Snow, and Spencer Macpherson. And yes, Julia Tomasone, Jordan Doww, and Devin Cecchetto are back as younger Del, Colton, and Evelyn from the 1970s storyline.
But the new faces are really exciting, especially for fans who’ve been watching Hallmark for a while.
Bianca Melchior (Wicked, Schmigadoon!) is joining as young Fern Landry. We have feelings about this. Fern arrived in Season 3 with cryptic energy and a trail of clues, and getting her origin story in the 1920s? We are buckled in.
Gabriel Hogan is stepping into the role of Grayson Goodwin. Hallmark fans will know him well as Norman from the Hannah Swensen Mysteries, where he played one of the most reliable and beloved supporting characters in the franchise. Seeing him land in Port Haven, especially in the Goodwin family tree, given everything we learned about Casey and Evelyn in Season 3, is going to be very, very interesting.
And then there’s Dan Jeannotte as Port Haven’s new Temperance Inspector, Cliff Kane. If you’re a Hallmark loyalist, you know Dan from Good Witch, where he played Brandon Russell. But we’d be willing to bet a lot of our fellow fans also know him from his days on The Bold Type, where he played Ryan Decker — a.k.a. Pinstripe, the very Mr. Big-coded love interest who made Jane Sloan’s life delightfully complicated for several seasons. The man knows how to play someone with a complicated relationship to the rules, which makes him a perfect fit for a Prohibition-era Port Haven.
Where We Left Off
If you need a refresher before April 19, or if you just finished binging Season 3 on Netflix and your brain is still spinning, we’ve got you covered. Our complete Season 3 guide walks through every episode, every twist, and every mailbag theory that hit different in hindsight.
The short version: the Season 3 finale confirmed that Elliot was the baby in the basket, Colton knew who Kat was when he died, Del traveled through the pond for the first time (and saw her own wedding), and Sam Bishop ended the season standing at the pond in a way that answered nothing and raised everything. Jacob is gone. K.C. is still K.C. We have questions.
Did You See That?
A Picture is Worth 1000 Words – You’ll notice that the key art for this season looks an awful lot like previous seasons, but with some clues hidden within the imaging. Both Kat and Alice’s reflections show them looking like they’re from another era, although Del’s is a mirror image. Read into that what you will!
Noticeably Absent – Although it’s no surprise, we’re still heartbroken to see Jefferson Brown missing from the returning cast for season 4. The writers gave him an incredible send off in season 3, but we’re hoping he returns in an occasional guest appearance.
How to Watch
Season 4 premieres Sunday, April 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PTon Hallmark Channel, with episodes available the next day on Hallmark+. If you need to catch up on Seasons 1–3 first, they’re all streaming on Netflix right now. All three seasons are also on Hallmark+.
And if you want to show your Port Haven pride while you wait or rewatch we’ve got The Way Home-inspired merch that’s basically required viewing-season attire.
We’ll be back with episode recaps and listener mailbags as soon as Season 4 kicks off. Until then, see you at the pond.
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