What Would’ve Happened If THE WAY HOME Got a Season 5?

Published: June 24, 2026

By India McCarty

THE WAY HOME has officially come to an end after four seasons, but that doesn’t mean the showrunners didn’t have some ideas about where a hypothetical Season 5 might have taken the characters.

“We always talk about it, of course we do, and especially our cast,” executive producer Alexandra Clarke told TV Insider of a fifth season. “I think there is plenty of room for more story, and yeah, we did have a Season 5 that we thought of initially as sort of part of the plan. So, yeah, I guess I keep wanting to say never say never, but look, I’m just so flattered that people have become so invested that that’s something they’re asking about.

Executive producer Heather Conkie added, “Yeah, it’s amazing. It tells us a lot about how people feel about the show. They take it very, very personally. I think this show has given a lot of people an insight into their own lives and I think that it’s a universal truth that they are facing because of the show and that five more minutes, who wouldn’t want that? We want five more minutes.”

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So, what would a fifth season of THE WAY HOME have looked like?

“I would have loved to have spent more time with the Jacob love story, see it grow a little more,” Conkie shared. “And I would have loved to have spent a little more time with the Max Alice love story, and, of course, the Elliot Kat story. And I would have loved to have seen the Del and Sam relationship move forward now that she knows she can and wants to. It would have been lovely.”

Clarke added that she wanted to see more of Griffin and Tessa, saying, “We see a little sampling of it in Episode 8, but it would have been very cool to basically see why Tessa became Tessa.”

“It’s so rich. It’s such a beautiful world, and there’s so many lovely eras,” she continued. “Yeah, it would have been great. But I think for the time that we had and the direction we wanted to take this year, I’m really proud of what we were able to show.”

Clarke and Conkie have previously spoken about the decision to end THE WAY HOME after four seasons.

“We always loved the idea of seeing the two women who started it all hold hands and take a leap together, only this time we’re just not allowed to go with them,” Conkie told PEOPLE. “That was what we always wanted for the end, that they’re going to keep going and having adventures and meeting new people and reuniting with the ones they’ve already met and have come to love. We just don’t get to go with them now.”

In an interview with Variety, Conkie shared what she hopes viewers take away from the final episode: “I hope they feel a closure. I hope it stays in their mind for a while. I think it was food for the soul. This whole series seemed to hit people in a very personal way. Each person who watches it takes away a different thing. I think it makes them look at their own lives, and wish they had those five more minutes. Who among us hasn’t thought that?”

While another season isn’t happening, it’s fun to dream about what could’ve been next for THE WAY HOME.

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