![]() ![]() “But one that’s throwing you into experiencing ‘Virgin River’ for the holidays and getting to see what that looks like and what that feels like - and luring you there with a cliffhanger.” “It was as close to the end of like a Marvel movie as you could get with just sort of an Easter egg of a scene,” Smith said. ![]() But the closing moments of the season dropped a new bombshell: Mel’s sister Joey (Jenny Cooper) called to say she found a hidden stack of postcards that seemed to suggest their mom had an affair with a man in Virgin River and that mystery man may well be Mel’s father. For the show where time moves slowly but the drama doesn’t - one character, Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley), has been pregnant for multiple seasons - Smith felt the storytelling device was well-earned after a season that included a devastating wildfire, a sting operation to catch a major drug supplier, and Mel’s miscarriage.Īnd then there’s Brady (Ben Hollingsworth), who is unknowingly being conned by his new girlfriend. Smith and the show’s writers opted to introduce a time-jump - going from Labor Day to Christmastime - for the first time and continue to pull at the storyline threads of Season 5. The new episodes are not a standalone installment that borrow from Carr’s holiday books. “But also it just feels like a natural extension of the show, given its feel-good sensibility and all those things you want for the holidays that the show manages to do year-round.” “It was a thought that had come up that they had been floating for a couple of seasons, but hadn’t really come to fruition,” said executive producer and showrunner Patrick Sean Smith. The idea to bring the season’s greetings to the fictional small town of Virgin River had been swirling for some time, partly energized by the fact that Carr wrote a number of holiday installments in the book series. And holiday-themed TV episodes are a time-honored tradition - though, this year they are in shorter supply because of the dual labor strike that shut down Hollywood for months. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |