Extra to the story! After a cliffhanger-filled season 3 finale, Virgin River has formally been given the inexperienced mild to disclose extra particulars of Mel and Jack’s story.
“Right here’s your first have a look at Virgin River season 4 coming to Netflix on July twentieth! 🎉,” the present’s official Instagram teased in Could 2022.
The collection — which debuted its third season in July 2021 — relies on Robyn Carr’s bestselling guide collection of the identical identify, which begins with nurse practitioner Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) relocating to the small city of Virgin River in northern California. Whereas balancing working with a grumpy city physician (Tim Matheson) and a budding romance with Jack (Martin Henderson), Mel offers with loads of drama — together with the mysterious circumstances of Jack’s taking pictures and the paternity of her child.
“We got here up with that actual doozy of a cliffhanger that can deliver her again to the city, but in addition deliver issues with it,” showrunner Sue Tenney completely advised Us Weekly in July 2021. “I need to do as many seasons as we are able to. If we get the precise reveal [of Jack’s shooting in season 4], it could element extra of how this all was intertwined. The webbing of that story goes all the way in which again to the primary season, so it’s a connective tissue that goes by 4 seasons.”
Elsewhere in season 3, Mel had simply completed telling Jack that she was anticipating a toddler earlier than the finale concluded. Whereas the bartender had but to react to her impending child information, he didn’t know that Mel underwent IVF with embryos she had beforehand saved along with her late husband, Mark (Daniel Gillies), throughout their temporary breakup. Like Jack, followers have been additionally left questioning concerning the paternity of the child and if the embryo was viable after her earlier fertility struggles.
“Along with her historical past, her fertility points and having a stillborn child at such a late stage in being pregnant, you don’t know if she’s going to have the ability to,” the This Is Us star beforehand advised Us in July 2021. “Within the books, she does, however loads of issues are completely different within the collection than within the books. However I want to watch her journey of turning into a mom.”
The Netflix drama additionally stars Zibby Allen (Brie), Marco Grazzini (Mike), Colin Lawrence (Preacher), Annette O’Toole (Hope) and Ben Hollingsworth (Dan).
“I advised Jack that I used to be pregnant when he was about to suggest on the finish of season 3. So clearly we’re going to look at Mel and Jack navigate the child that we don’t know who the daddy is,” Breckenridge teased throughout an interview with Glamour in April 2022. “In order that must be fulfilling. And so they by no means truly get engaged on the finish of season three. So we’ll see in the event that they find yourself getting engaged in season 4 or not.”
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