Hopefuls are impatiently waiting for the news of Season 3 of When Hope Calls. The Great American Family series is a spinoff of Hallmark’s When Calls the Heart. In the second season, Nora and Michael made a romantic connection. However, the couple could be doomed by timing.
Trouble Brewing
Nora (Cindy Busby) and Michael (Christopher Russell) have a slow-burn romance. It’s not steamy and passionate like most relationships on soap operas. They haven’t made their relationship official yet.
In Season 2, they caressed hands, which gave fans some hope. (Excuse the pun.) Busby spoke to Swooon about their relationship dynamic and why it could be doomed from the start.
“Well, I think there’s going to be some trouble. I think there would be some trouble between the two. If the ending of the season is any indication of where their feelings are starting to be questioned,” Busby said.
Great American Family hasn’t renewed the show for Season 3. Still, Busby suggested there will be something that will keep Nora and Michael apart. “Is it your job, or is it your love? Can you have both? Especially under these circumstances, and especially that Mountie Michael is in town temporarily, potentially.”
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The actress suggested that his stint in Brookfield might not last forever. “Is he going to leave? And what does this mean for Nora?”
Busby hinted that there will “be more challenges ahead” for both of them. However, she believes their relationship will happen when it’s meant to. Busby thinks their romance is “something really worth waiting for.”
Jane Austen Romance
Busby has enjoyed watching their interaction. She loves that their courtship has taken on a Jane Austen-inspired romance, in which they exchange looks and touch hands.
“That lingering look or that look that you didn’t think he’d see, I think it’s so sexy,” Busby said. “It’s almost sexier than seeing that in-your-face stuff. There’s something about that that is so intimate and romantic.” Busby admitted that seeing Michael and Nora’s scenes “gets me swooning and heart fluttering.”
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She prefers their relationship to grow this way. Busby grew up watching teen dramas like Dawson’s Creek, where couples would succumb to lust and crash and burn. But When Hope Calls is a family-friendly show that’s set in the 1920s.
“There’s social standards, and they are very different about how a woman behaves in public and a man behaves in public and all that kind of stuff,” Busby. Still, she’s confident they got the romance formula right. “I think we really navigated it in a very just way. It’s fun to play that kind of back-and-forth banter, but a period piece kind of banter.”
