‘Virgin River’ carries on with the longest WTF? pregnancy in TV history
nypost.comVirgin River.” Whatever. I won’t spoil anything. You can watch the season-ender and suss it all out.The real shocker is that annoying Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley) is still carrying those twins after four seasons (and four years in real time).
It’s the longest live-action pregnancy in TV history yet no one in the pristine, picture-postcard world of “Virgin River” (or its writers) bats an eyelash.
WTF? I get that this is a fictional TV universe, but does time really stand that still in Virgin River, where it’s supposedly only nine months (or less) since the series premiered in 2019?
C’mon, people. Now it’s just getting silly vis-à-vis Charmaine — though I guess “silly” is relative in this Hallmark-greeting-card world, where criminality lurks beneath the surface but is buffed away by smiles, some gosh-darn-homey community spirit (“Let’s make a quilt!”) and a dash of one-dimensional drama embodied by central-casting actors.Wait … time for another beautiful sunset shot!Apologies to “Seinfeld,” but it’s not that there’s anything wrong with the polished veneer of “Virgin River,” set in a woody, remote (did I say “quaint?”) Northern California town (the series is actually shot in British Columbia, but close enough).
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