One of Netflix’s longest-running dramas is Virgin River, an adaptation of the Robyn Carr eponymous romance book series. Virgin River charts nurse and midwife Mel’s (Alexandra Breckenridge) arrival in town as she runs from a traumatic past, and tracks her journey as she gets acquainted with life in a small town. Over the course of the six-season run, she meets and falls in love with Jack (Martin Henderson), a barkeep and former Marine, and by the end of season 6, they’re happily married.
Thankfully, showrunner Patrick Sean Smith plans to keep it that way, though he teased a few other shake-ups for the characters. “I can’t imagine creating a scenario where you think Mel and Jack are going to break up,” Smith told Netflix. “It forces you to dig a little bit deeper into, well, what other issues can they have in their relationship?” Some of those obstacles might come in the form of new characters, at least one of whom is promised to be a fixture from Mel’s past who reappears in Virgin River.
