Dropping on The Hallmark Channel and Hallmark+ from August 2, 2025, Windfall Falls is a brand new three-part movie sequence following Cora (Katie Stevens) and Liam (Lachlan Quarmby), two cops paired as much as attempt to resolve a theft case. As theft turns into far more sinister, Cora doesn’t know Liam isn’t a cop in any respect, however a lover from a previous life despatched ahead in time to attempt to get her to fall in love along with her “future” in co-worker Finn (Evan Roderick).
Sound acquainted? Effectively, the time-travel aspect ought to at the very least. Whereas the core romance may very well be plucked straight from any one in all Hallmark’s corridor of fames, there’s one other sequence on the platform that may immediately transport you to a different historic timeline: The Approach Dwelling. Starring Andie MacDowell and Chyler Leigh, the present tells the story of the Landry household, who discover they will journey again in time to completely different factors of their shared historical past by leaping within the pond on the finish of their backyard (as you do). Season 4 is predicted to air in early 2026, and boy do now we have some questions that want answering.
Ponderers (who’re the fanbase of the present, clearly), will know a key characteristic of The Approach Dwelling time journey includes rising from a physique of water drenched, having to go and cope with no matter historic disasters await you whereas fully drenched. Blink and also you’ll miss it, however there’s a really comparable circumstance in a single installment of Windfall Falls, and the forged admits that the coincidental Easter egg was probably the most “difficult” scene of the bunch.
Windfall Falls’ most ‘difficult’ scene is an unintended The Approach Dwelling Easter egg, and I’m residing for it
Spoilers for Windfall Falls forward.
“There is a scene that had an involvement with a lake in and we had been capturing in Vancouver, and it was February, so you’ll be able to think about how freezing the water was, and there have been some stunts to go together with it,” Stevens tells me concerning the scene. “So, that was actually, actually difficult. Though we had the moist swimsuit and issues beneath our costume, it was nonetheless freezing. In order that was most likely probably the most troublesome, only for that. The scene is definitely one in all my favourite scenes in the entire sequence, however it was undoubtedly not as glamorous to movie.”
You’ll discover the scene in query on the finish of half 2 of Windfall Falls, as Cora tries to get away from Marcus as soon as she realises he’s actually working with the incorrect aspect. Marcus offers chase and pulls a gun on Cora, resulting in a waterside struggle that ends with Cora falling into the lake. Fortunately, Finn and Liam arrive simply in time, with Liam heroically diving in to avoid wasting Cora as she loses consciousness.
If this was an episode of The Approach Dwelling, Cora would have surfaced from the water again in her Irish 1800s timeline, conscious that she is time-traveling between two factors in historical past. As an alternative, Windfall Falls chooses to overlap each timelines in a montage, with Cora satisfied she is dreaming when she thinks of herself prior to now. The act of travelling by time is likely to be snappier within the new miniseries, however I can’t assist however draw apparent parallels from how fantasy is mixed with actuality.
There’s one other similarity between Windfall Falls and The Approach Dwelling
This isn’t the one Easter egg from The Approach Dwelling that I’ve seen in Windfall Falls, although. The opening scene appears virtually similar to the woodland the place the Landry pond is ready, with 1800s Cora and Liam even venturing briefly into the water as Kat and Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) may in The Approach Dwelling. Nevertheless, this one is merely a coincidence, with all of Windfall Falls’ Irish scenes being filmed in… nicely, Eire.
“We filmed the primary movie, after which we went to Eire, shot the entire Irish footage for all three movies collectively, after which went and did motion pictures two and three,” Stevens provides. “So, Eire virtually felt like its personal film.I believe the good thing about how we shot is that our characters are attempting to form of determine one another out, and Cora is having these goals, however cannot actually make sense of them but. In actual life, we acquired to look again on our time in Eire, so we all know now what our characters are considering of the issues that they are remembering, and we truly shot these issues so that they had been actual recollections for us.
“We shot in Dublin and Kilruddery Fortress, which is the place Cora’s home is. After which we shot on the fortress the place the Beckhams acquired married, which was actually cool.”
