Talkie Tuesday: Good Witch Tale of Two Hearts

"True love always finds a way."

Hello everyone!

Finally, the wait is over, and I can honestly say this was probably one of my most anticipated Hallmark productions yet - mostly because I fell in love with Cassie ten years or so ago when she first moved to Middleton and made everybody think she rode in on a broomstick. 

I kid you not.

Anyway, Good Witch as a series is better suited for audiences than the long movies that only air once a year or so (but they're still pretty awesome to watch!), and I can't WAIT for the actual season.

This was just a taste of things to come and an interesting preview, not to mention, hello, who can do Halloween better than a witch?

Or, a couple of witches, actually, or a trio, depending, since you have Cassie, Grace AND Abigail on the job.

A Tale of Two Hearts is full of Halloween magic, some mystery, and happily ever after for some.

I'll be honest right off the bat.

I was hoping for a wedding.

Heck, I can't be the only Goodie who wants this freaking wedding!

Sam and Cassie have been dancing around on their tippy-toes from the moment Sam and his son Nick moved to Middleton back in season one of the show, and I think we can all admit that we've enjoyed their road from neighbours to friends to couple, especially seeing as Cassie was a widow when she met Sam and Sam was only recently divorced.

Now, heading into season five, everyone and their mother is harping about this wedding.

But unfortunately, the Powers That Be have apparently decided to make us wait even longer.

Sigh.

Let's recap the actual two-hour season preview, shall we?

It's Halloween in Middleton (again), and our story begins with a Merriwick (one of Cassie's ancestors) who is promised to a rich man from Blairsville, the neighbouring town to Middleton, but she's in love with a humble miner who finds this awesome heart-shaped ruby and gifts it to her.

Sadly, their love affair is found out and he's shipped off to war, she's put under house arrest, they exchange a whole bunch of letters and then one night she simply poofs into thin air, leaving the Heart of Middleton behind (if this reminds you of another heart, a la Heart of the Ocean, I think that was the entire point everyone was trying to make). Neither of the lovers is ever seen again.

Our scene then cuts to Cassie who is telling this story to her daughter Grace while they both admire the Heart, which is apparently a family heirloom and just sitting in an old wooden box at Grey House.

But as a new museum curator arrives to put up a display for the museum's 200th anniversary, Cassie is lending it to said museum to be the centre for the display. She's also right in the middle of wedding preparations when her fiancé, one Dr. Sam Radford, walks through the door with bad news.

Their venue is flooded.

This means the wedding is kind of off, as it was supposed to take place right after this masquerade gala event at the museum, and it wouldn't be fair for their guests to just go to City Hall.

Also Cassie wants to walk down that aisle towards Sam, damnit!

Anyway.

While Sam and Cassie deal with this latest blow the universe just gave them, the whole of Middleton is preparing for its annual Halloween Harvest Festival, during which they compete with Blairsville in a rivalry that dates right back to that love story from the beginning.

Martha Tinsdale, former Mayor who hit a snafu at the end of last season when it was revealed the town's boundaries had shifted and her house is actually in BLAIRSVILLE so she can't be Mayor anymore, is trying to help wherever she can, because that's just who she is, but Abigail, Cassie's cousin and current Mayor who stepped in after the debacle, is having none of it.

Reader, please note, Abigail tends to be like this on a general basis. She's an acquired taste.

Anyway, while Stephanie, owner of the bistro and Cassie's wedding caterer is trying to make wedding feasts into Halloween feasts, Martha exclaimes BYE FELICIA and defects to Blairsville to lead their team against Middleton. This is a bit of a problem because her pumpkin pie recipe hasn't lost Middleton the festival in twenty years - and she takes it with her.

Oops.

The Merriwick women enlist the Radford men to sign up for some of the competitions because otherwise Middleton will DEFINITELY lose, and it actually helps because Sam wins the pumpkin carving competition and Nick wins the scary scarecrow competition (those are things, yes, Middleton takes it's festival and Halloween SERIOUSLY).

Meanwhile, Middleton has a bigger problem: the Heart has been stolen.

WHAT.

I know, I know, but I did say there's a mystery, right? And it has nothing to do with the star-crossed lovers from the beginning (if you want to know, said star-crossed lovers ended up together because she ran out of Grey House through a secret tunnel that leads from said house to the museum), but with the museum curator.

See, she came to Middleton specifically for the power allegedly attributed to the Heart, aka that it helps lovers come together.

Why, you ask?

She met this guy in Paris, they kissed in the rain, but because he's a guy he wrote his number on a napkin and said napkin dissolved in said rain. Big oops. Also, said guy went on to try a relationship with one demanding woman who was so opposite of him it was painful to watch, and their relationship definitely fell apart while in Middleton.

But, Cassie was on the job, probably knowing exactly who took the jewel (viewers were told this secret pretty fast and then it was only a matter of time) and kept up a stream of helpful commentary as well as a nifty lights-out trick when the woman returned it.

She also helped the two lovers get together and travel to Paris.

So, while Middleton rejoyces their win against Blairsville, Abigal apologises to Martha, Grace realises this is her last Hallween in Middleton, Sam takes Cassie up to the roof of the museum where he gives her a letter he wrote her, and, during his voice-over of said letter he and Cassie slow dance together as the scene fades away.

The end!

Ugh, couldn't it have been the wedding??

I mean, I loved the episode, I tend to love every Good Witch episode because it's Hallmark, but COME ON. We need that wedding already!

Fingers crossed this happens soon after season five hits our screens.

xx

*images and video not mine