I’m proud to announce the delivery of Charmaine’s bouncing child boys on “Virgin River.”
You’re welcome.
So cigars throughout, however not for the unnamed twins’ father, sketchy Calvin (David Cubitt), tossed unceremoniously from Doc’s (Tim Matheson) clinic by Mel (Alexandra Breckeridge), who helped ship the infants after four-plus years — the longest-gestating being pregnant in TV historical past that stretched the bounds of credulity, even within the life’s-too-perfect world of “Virgin River.”
“I really feel like I’ve been pregnant for years,” Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley) mentioned to Mel pre-delivery in a wink wink inside reference to her natal travails.
We perceive, Charmaine, and now you can lose the ever-evolving prosthetic being pregnant stomach you’ve been schlepping round Virgin River till the arrival of this two-part vacation episode on Netflix — so saccharine-sweet it may instantaneously rot one’s tooth. (“Silent Evening” performed on the soundtrack as Charmaine held her infants — are you kidding me?)
OK, so I used to be tipped off a number of months again that Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley) would lastly give delivery to her boys after she divulged that their father was not — as she led us to imagine — the sainted Jack Sheridan (Martin Henderson) however Calvin, who ran afoul of the legislation and is a free man solely as a result of he sang like a fowl vis-a-vis the lumberyard drug operation that additionally ensnared hapless Brady (Ben Hollingsworth).
Calvin was granted witness safety, which begs the query: why, then, did he present as much as Doc’s clinic in plain sight?
Solutions: such are the vagaries of “Virgin River” and Calvin isn’t the sharpest instrument within the shed.
The 2-part vacation arc additionally answered different burning questions, notably one left over from the Season 5 finale: who’s Mel’s organic father?
We realized in that finale that Mel’s mom had a years-long affair with a man who lived in Virgin River (after all he did).
My guess was Doc, which wouldn’t have been too far-fetched given this present’s syrupy predilection.
I used to be dead-wrong: Mel’s long-lost dad turned out to be an on a regular basis dude named Everett Reid (John Allen Nelson) who used the sobriquet “Champ” in his letters to Mel’s mother (for profitable the 1976 Lumberjack Video games).
Mel and Jack tracked Champ/Everett all the way down to his pristine cabin within the woods and he was not happy to see his daughter — leaving Mel crushed … however all of us realizing that, after all, he’d have a change of coronary heart simply in time for the primary snowflakes to fall on Christmas Day. All collectively now: awwww!
In different “Virgin River” information: The romance between older Muriel and youthful Dr. Cameron Hayek (Mark Ghanimé) remains to be hot-and-heavy — did you see the look she threw him onstage through the annual Virgin River Christmas present? — although Muriel made it clear that she doesn’t need kids.
Nevertheless it’s fantastic; Cameron is OK with that (nicely, a minimum of for now), and even informed his recovering alcoholic ex-girlfriend, who confirmed up unexpectedly, to bug off.
Teen lovers Lizzie (Sarah Dugdale) and Denny (Kai Bradbury), Doc’s grandson, expect a baby. It’s a lady, and Lizzie’s me-first mom lastly purchased into the being pregnant after a tearful heart-to-heart together with her daughter.
And don’t neglect, Denny has Huntington’s illness … time just isn’t on his aspect.
Brady and his ex-Brie (Zibby Allen), got here thisclose to kissing below the mistletoe, regardless of the opposite saying how they’re performed with the connection. Hmmm. Brie appears pleased with Mike the cop (Marco Grazzini) and Brady with Lark (Elise Gatien) — however we realized that she’s as much as no good and is secretly plotting in opposition to her feckless boyfriend with Calvin’s former co-worker, Jimmy, who’s behind bars.
The drama!
Preacher (Colin Lawrence) professed his love for Kaia (Kandyse McClure) after a frigid, Christmas-day plunge in Virgin River; she didn’t reciprocate however that’s OK as a result of she’s staying on the town as Virgin River’s new hearth chief. (Insert heated romance trope right here.)
And, final however not least, Doc and his annoying spouse, Hope (Annette O’Toole), lastly gained the Virgin River Christmas tree ornament contest — simply as Doc requested Hope to remarry him earlier than he begins the scientific trial he hopes will save his eyesight. Oy.
Netflix has renewed “Virgin River” for a sixth season — and I, for one, can’t wait.
Convey it on.