the longest-gestating pregnancy in TV history that stretched the bounds of credulity, even in the life’s-too-perfect world of “Virgin River.”“I feel like I’ve been pregnant for years,” Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley) said to Mel pre-delivery in a wink wink inside reference to her natal travails.
We understand, Charmaine, and you can now lose the ever-evolving prosthetic pregnancy belly you’ve been schlepping around Virgin River until the arrival of this two-part holiday episode on Netflix — so saccharine-sweet it could instantaneously rot one’s teeth. (“Silent Night” played on the soundtrack as Charmaine held her babies — are you kidding me?)OK, so I was tipped off several months back that Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley) would finally give birth to her boys after she divulged that their father was not — as she led us to believe — the sainted Jack Sheridan (Martin Henderson) but Calvin, who ran afoul of the law and is a free man only because he sang like a bird vis-a-vis the lumberyard drug operation that also ensnared hapless Brady (Ben Hollingsworth).Calvin was granted witness protection, which begs the question: why, then, did he show up to Doc’s clinic in plain sight?Answers: such are the vagaries of “Virgin River” and Calvin isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed.The two-part holiday arc also answered other burning questions, particularly one left over from the Season 5 finale: who is Mel’s biological father?We learned in that finale that Mel’s mother had a years-long affair with a guy who lived in Virgin River (of course he did).
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