The Hallmark Channel isn’t just a go-to for cute romantic movies and family-friendly fare. It is also a reliable place to discover great TV shows. The Way Home, a surprisingly addictive show that’s a family drama combined with a time travel mystery (and also filled with tons of great original music!), returns with a fourth season this spring. If you are new to the show, you can subscribe Hallmark Plus to binge on past seasons, but there’s also a way to get every episode of The Way Home without paying for a new, niche service. Starting February 1, every episode of the series will be available to stream on Netflix.

The Way Home, which premiered in 2023, has an impressive cast: Andie MacDowell plays the matriarch Del Landry, who lives with her adult daughter, Katherine (Chyler Leigh of Grey’s Anatomy), and granddaughter Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) in their family home located near a forest adjacent to a pond. Why did I describe parts of the landscape around their house? Because the pond is also a portal to other time periods and holds the key to many family mysteries, including the disappearance of Del’s long-lost son Jacob. After they move in with Del, Katherine and Alice both start messing around with the portal, despite having met each other before and becoming friends. But when they start trying to change their family history, things get complicated.

The Way Home stands out because it doesn’t feel like a Hallmark production. It’s more in line with shows like Virgin River on Netflix or Sweet Magnolias. In fact, The Way Home was originally made for Netflix. It became a Hallmark series when the Netflix executive The director became Hallmark’s head of programming and brought the show to the network.

The series feels like a departure from Hallmark, especially since most Hallmark releases don’t dabble in science fiction or time travel, or feature such twisty, complex plots. The show is clever and intelligent, combining multiple timelines and allowing new mysteries to unfold each season, but still accessible and suitable for most ages.

Seasons 1 and 2 have been on Netflix since October, and with the arrival of season 3, you can now catch the entire series in one place. Want to watch the series for free? You can get all three seasons in Hooplawhich is available in many libraries, but the downside is that you only have seven days to look at it. (With 30 hour episodes, even we can’t get full that fast.) Then once you’ve polished off the first three episodes, you’ll be ready when the fourth (and final) season arrives on the Hallmark Channel this spring.