Jacks joins us this week to begin our journey into Hope Valley: 1874.

When Tom refuses to provide lumber for the boardinghouse, Rebecca gets creative.

March 26, 2026 | Hallmark Channel

• Bethany Joy Lenz as Rebecca Clarke
• Benjamin Ayres as Tom Moore

The episode starts off in a pretty shocking way - Rebecca is met by her husband, Jim, who is supposed to be dead! Turns out, it was all a dream. Womp womp. But then she thinks her daughter is missing. Turns out, double dream! INCEPTION!

The next day, Rebecca and Sarah get to work on the boarding house. It's actually going really well. But she needs lumber for sale. Unfortunately for her, the only one who has spare lumber is Tom who is still against the boarding house opening. She decides to give it a shot anyway and ask and it doesn't go well.

While she was at Tom's, she left Sarah with another mom, Peggy & her daughter, Jenny. Sarah is shocked to find out that not everyone can read.

Tom has to rush off though because he finds out that Doyal is encroaching on his property. He threatens him that if he doesn't skedaddle, he's gonna shoot him. But then his daughter comes out, so that complicates things, obviously.

Rebecca has an idea to sell pies, so she goes to talk to Hattie about it. While in the boarding house, she sees Olivia drawing and it's really good. She asks her if she'd come and draw some ideas she has for the boarding house. Hattie is not thrilled about this.

Doyal's had it with Tom's ish, so he goes to the new law in town, Alexander. He says he'll look into it.

While on his horse, he comes up beside Rebecca and Sarah and he asks them about Tom. They tell him that Tom isn't a bad guy.

He then goes to talk to Tom and he says unless he has documentation proving that this land is his, the prospectors can do whatever they want on his land.

One night, Rebecca goes out to the prospector area and finds a ton of her wood from the boarding house that they've been taking to burn. She begs them to stop doing that.

There's a bit of a love connection going on between Clayton (Tom's blacksmith guy) and Olivia, Hattie's daughter. But Olivia dreams of the big city. And when he sees her light up when Alexander brings up Toronto, he gets sad.

Rebecca talks to the trading guy about getting lumber brought in. He tells her it's gonna likely be over $500 which is more than she has. She's looking at her ring and her daughter says whatever you do, don't sell your ring.

Lars, Ned's dad, shows up with the wood from the prospectors. They wanted to return it to her. Tom is there when this happens and tells her it looks like she's making friends. He also insists that she not pay him for the carriage wheel. Instead, he wants her to teach Peggy how to read.

The episode ends with Alexander writing a field report about this place. He says nothing of note except one woman who is a bit suspicious. Why would someone leave with her daughter to come to open a boarding house? UH OH!

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We're back with some more Gilmore Girls! Join us in this journey on social media - @gilmorethemerrierpod.

Emily is shocked to see Lorelai's living conditions while raising Rory. She responds by creating a perfect bedroom for Rory in her own house, hoping to make amends.

April 26, 2001 | The WB

• Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
• Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore

We're at Friday night dinner and Rory and Emily agree to hang out on Saturday. Lorelai is busy doing literally anything else. Saturday morning is here and they go to Luke's for breakfast. Rachel is still there and shows Lorelai some pictures she took around town, including a picture of her and Luke at the Firelight Festival. But Lorelai is more taken aback by this abandoned house that she took a picture of. She immediately thinks it might be the perfect inn.

When Lorelai gets to work, she's shocked to find Rune is there. You remember Rune - Jackson's cousin. Sookie asks Lorelai for a favor - give Rune a job and let him stay at the inn so he can get out of Jackson's place. She reluctantly agrees.

Emily shows up in Stars Hollow and they go on their way. They're having a great time until Rory shows her the little shack that she grew up in and Emily storms out.

Lorelai goes to check out the inn in the pictures with Rachel. It's perfect.

So she starts hanging out with Rachel more. Luke tells Lorelai to not get attached. She always leaves. Lorelai is like I think she wants to stay this time. Luke is like you don't know what you're talking about.

That night, Lorelai and Rory see Luke and Rachel at the movies, so I guess he listened to her.

At Friday night dinner, Emily is excited to show Rory that she's remodeled a room to be all hers - full of boy band posters and Cosmo magazines. Lorelai is confused and after Rory walks out, Emily and her get into an argument about how Lorelai wanted to be anywhere but with them after Rory was born including a worn down shack.

They go to Luke's afterwards and Rachel tells Lorelai the big news - Luke has given her a drawer.

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It's Tuesday which means there's a new Hallmark movie to review!

Ruby, a world-renowned gemologist is hired by Prince Luca to restore the crown jewels and design his crown challenging tradition and complicating his relationship with his mother, the queen.

March 28, 2026 | Hallmark

Director: Bradley Walsh

Writers: W. Stewart, Ansley Gordon

Cast:

• Jen Lilley as Ruby
• Dan Jeannotte as Prince Luca

Ruby's done it! She found the jewel her client is looking for! But it makes sense. Because Ruby's good. She's getting great buzz for being quite the gemologist. The buzz has made it to the Kingdom of Gullian and they want her to come and restore their crown jewels. She has a week to restore a vault full of jewels. Ruby isn't sure she can do it but her mom is.

When she arrives in Gullian, her car has a flat and the driver isn't very helpful because this has never happened before. She decides she's just gonna walk it. She comes across a couple fellas out on a jog who point her towards the right direction. Little does she know that one of those joggers was Prince Luca!

So when she is introduced to Prince Luca at the palace, she's shocked. Prince Luca really wants to push things into the future but there's pushback there.

Things between Prince Luca and Ruby progress quickly. He asks her to design his crown and asks her to join him for the centennial celebration.

So they start hanging out more, really digging each other. But ultimately, she's fired for giving the royal family too much press. They are very much against any sort of press. Luca is very sad and his mom begins to realize that maybe she's goofed.

But Ruby realized she goofed too. There's still work to do. So she comes back and finishes his crown. He comes to see her and he's like yay you're back. His mom tells him they're ready to make some changes. And Ruby and Luca kiss.

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