Blog Rating: 9.25 out of 10
Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow) a young woman from a wealthy family in the city moves to a small mining town -Coal Valley- to practice for the first time as a teacher.
For her part, Abigail Stanton (Lori Loughlin), the widow of the foreman who died along with a dozen other workers in an explosion at the coal mine where they worked, will become her best friend and advisor in the hardest moments.
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| Lory Loughlin as Abigail Stanton |
Together with the other women of Coal Valley who have just been widowed, they will have to overcome many difficulties in this town that has lost many mining husbands and children.
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| Pascale Hutton (as Rosemary) & Kavan Smith (as Leland Coulter) |
Elizabeth enchants just about everyone in the community except Mounted Trooper Jack Thornton (Daniel Lissing), who believes Thatcher's rich dad has used his influence to favor his daughter. Over time this relationship will change and enchant the entire town.
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| Carter Ryan Evancic as Cody Stanton |
Living in a 19th century coal city, Elizabeth will have to learn to live in a rural town without the comfort of the big city.
"When Calls the Heart" is a sentimental drama, with some cliches but very entertaining and light. It's a break from so much grim and all-too-real show. It's like a continuation of "The Little House on the Prairie" or "Anne with an E".
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| Andrea Brooks (as Faith Carter) and Paul Greene (as Dr Carson Shepherd) |
Most of the characters are very human and caring. Whenever there is a problem, it is faced by the community until a solution is found.
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| Bill Avery, Abigail Stanton, Elizabeth Thatcher & Jack Thornton |
The series is inspired by Janette Oke's best-selling book collection on the Canadian West, and reunites her with executive producer and director, Michael Landon Jr.
"When Calls the Heart" is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Janette Oke (born 1935). Oke, now 85, is the mother of evangelical romance novels.
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| Janette Oke accompanied by the cast of the series |
Her first novel, "Love Comes Softly", sold an average of 500,000 copies per year for 20 years after its publication in 1979.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United States
Filmed in: Vancouver, Langley and British Columbia (Canada)
