![]() When the drug trade is finally busted, police officer Mike (Marco Grazzini) is shot, and taken to the hospital, where Jack’s sister Brie (Zibby Allen) stays by his bedside. ![]() How about Brie, Brady, and Mike? (L to R) Zibby Allen as Brie, Marco Grazzini as Mike in episode 506 of Virgin River Courtesy of Netflix For the first time in a long while (take that with a grain of salt in VR world), she is looking forward to, and optimistic about their future. This is a huge moment of growth for Mel, who was very resistant to the idea of trying to have a family with Jack again after her miscarriage. After Ava (Libby Osler) reveals that she’s selling her family’s land, where their beloved farm once stood, Mel tells Jack that she wants to purchase it, so they can live there with their children one day. Though Jack’s money is now tied up in an FBI investigation over what happened on his site, when we last see the couple, they’ve decided to make a huge financial investment. Mel had a miscarriage during the wildfires of season 5, and it turns out that Jack’s biggest investor was running a drug trade out of their construction site. Things started to turn around for the couple: Mel got pregnant, Jack started building what promised to be a lucrative glamping business, and they got engaged. Jack’s house was burned to the ground, and he was later shot and nearly killed. In Virgin River, she meets the local bar owner and former Marine Jack, who becomes her lifeline (remember, he confesses that he’s falling in love with her after knowing her for a month).Īnd they’ve been through it together. She refers to herself as somewhat of an orphan-her mother died when she was 11, and her father a decade ago-and has no other family besides her older sister Joey. She arrived in town (remember in VR time, around a year ago) grieving the recent loss of her husband and the stillbirth of their daughter. ![]() Where do Mel and Jack stand now? (L to R) Martin Henderson as Jack Sheridan, Alexandra Breckenridge as Mel Monroe in episode 503 of Virgin River Courtesy of NetflixĪll characters on Virgin River seem to be a little cursed, but no one more so than the town’s midwife and nurse practitioner Mel. So, here’s a refresher on what went down the last time we saw Mel Monroe and all her friends, and what’s going on in their lives ahead of the new episodes. ![]() (And if you can’t wait until then, Netflix just released the first nine minutes of the new installment here).īecause so much happens on Virgin River-and in so little time-it can be hard to keep up. They’ll be packed with all the twists and turns that the series is known for, along with some quaint holiday fare. Now, two new episodes will drop on Netflix on November 30, and pick up where things left off. The final episode of the first part of the fifth season followed the characters around on Labor Day, and, in its last moments, flashed forward to winter, with Christmas just around the corner. Beyond Mel’s contract, it’s easy to know that not that much time has passed in what is essentially the West Coast version of Stars Hollow since one character, Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley), the ex-girlfriend of Mel’s fiancée Jack (Martin Henderson), has been pregnant with twins since the end of the first season.īut Virgin River is finally speeding things up-a little. And yet, Mel’s first-year work anniversary has not even officially passed.ĭespite there being five seasons of Virgin River since it debuted in 2019, with a total of 52 episodes, the actual timeline of the series is shockingly slow. Over the course of five seasons, Mel and her fellow residents of the cozy wooded community see plenty of drama: characters have survived stabbings, shootings, car crashes, and drug rings houses have been intentionally burnt down, and others destroyed in a ravenous wildfire. In the first episode of Virgin River, Alexandra Breckenridge’s Mel Monroe, a nurse practitioner from Los Angeles, arrives in the fictional North California enclave after signing a year-long contract to work at the town’s family medical clinic with Doc Mullins (Tim Matheson).
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