Warning: This story contains spoilers for season 4 of Virgin RiverMore small town drama ahead! The Netflix series Virgin River is returning for a fifth season.“[With] everything that’s been going on in the world, people more and more [are] looking for, not just that comfort, but also that feeling of hope and that feeling of community,” Jinny Howe, Netflix’s VP of Original Series, told USA Today in September 2021 when announcing the show’s renewal for a fourth and fifth season.Based on novels of the same name by Robyn Carr, Virgin River follows midwife and nurse practitioner Melinda “Mel” Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge), who relocates to a small Northern California town in hopes of leaving her painful past behind.
At the end of season 4, which was released on July 20, 2022, Mel gets engaged to local bar owner and former Marine Jack Sheridan (Martin Henderson).“It was really sweet,” Breckenridge told TVLine of the proposal scene. “Martin played it in such a kind, loving way.
He got all misty eyed, so I got misty eyed. I don’t know that he was expecting that. Sometimes you go into a scene seeing where it takes you.
Over 41 episodes into filming, this back-and-forth for the two of us playing these characters, it was a really nice moment that they got to.”The newly engaged characters are also expecting a baby together, a story line that is sure to play out in season 5.
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