He confesses his love for Mel but before he and his part can fully disentangle themselves from Charmaine, she falls pregnant. But! He – or at least a part of him, not his heart – is involved with Charmaine. Romantical possibilities (!) are offered by barman Jack (Martin Henderson), a former marine haunted by the things he has seen and done in Iraq, but upon whom the healing powers of the town are gradually working. And she wasn’t about to let the sleepy-knit, close townspeople of Virgin River suffer from one man’s stubbornness (overlaying a secretly lovehearted and warm nature), no sirree, Bob! Hope is played by Annette O’Toole, who after a decade spent keeping everything shipshape as Martha Kent in 10 seasons of Smallville is your go-to woman for such a role, and it looks like she is enjoying herself hugely. His ex-wife, the gossipy but loving and warmhearted Mayor Hope McCrea, hired her without his knowledge, you see, because she knew he needed help even though he couldn’t admit it. She even eventually wins over the irascible doctor (Tim Matheson) of the sleepy, close-knit town of Virgin River, who at first resented her arrival. She is burdened by a Secret Sorrow.ĭespite this, her lovely hair and loving nature, plus her ability to look after the babies people birth, abandon and stumble upon with such astonishing frequency that the name Virgin River starts to take on a faintly mocking air by episode six, soon she becomes a beloved part of the community.

Mel Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge), a warm-hearted and unthreateningly beautiful nurse practitioner and midwife, leaves her job in LA for one in the sleepy, close-knit town of Virgin River. I mainlined most of the first series during the Priti Patel bullying saga, and used the remainder to distract myself from Boris Johnson’s rendering of collated international scientific fact and expert recommendation as “’Tis the season to be jolly careful”.

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