![]() ![]() ![]() How does Mel find out Jack's ex is pregnant? From Hope. She has trouble calming her racing thoughts or keeping her mouth from spilling them. Hope keeps things to herself, and yet can't stop spreading news like wildfire. She doesn't communicate she simply acts, often impulsively. As an overthinking introvert, I'm with you, Hope. Hope is in her own head a lot of the time. They choose to, and choose each other again and again, even if their marriage is somewhat unconventional.Īnnette O'Toole as Hope McCrea and Tim Matheson as Doc Mullins in "Virgin River" (Courtesy Of Netflix)Part of Hope's problem - and likely, viewers' problems with her - is that she doesn't tell people what she's planning or thinking. But at the end of the day - or more specifically, at the end of an early season - Hope and Vernon stay together. Yes, Hope tried to set him up with a frenemy, in a weird case of anxiety about her and Vernon's rekindled romance. Yes, Vernon had an affair once, 20 years ago. When it matters, Hope is rock-solid, and Hope and Vernon provide an example not often present in fiction: that of an older, long-married couple working it out over time. Of all the things hot-tempered Hope gets annoyed about, the big, important stuff she takes in stride. Hope and Vernon are childless - they think, and when Hope learns her husband fathered a child years before, a child whose grandson shows up on their doorstep, she accepts him.Īs Hope and Vernon have a fire-tested, long-term marriage so too they will deal with long-term illness. "Virgin River" does a surprisingly good job of featuring older characters (despite a ton of pregnancies, we don't seem to have many children in this town - should we be worried?). Tim Matheson as Doc Mullins and Annette O'Toole as Hope in "Virgin River" (Courtesy Of Netflix)Hope and Vernon have a different kind of marriage from what we normally see on TV. Let's give it up for Vernon, possibly the most romantic character in a community of hopeless ( sometimes deludedly so) Romantics. Vernon still carries a torch for her, however. In the series' first season, Hope has been living separately from her husband for decades. He does, and Hope might be a good matchmaker.Įxcept Hope has romantic problems of her own. ![]() She meddles in bar owner Jack's relationship when she suspects he's having feelings for Mel. She meddles to get Mel to town - and to stay there when things are not what Mel expects – to assist Hope's husband Vernon (Tim Matheson) in his small town doctoring. Hope, played by the great Annette O'Toole, starts out the show as the mayor of Virgin River, steering a lovely, wooded riverfront town that has a bit of a drug problem (but never mind that you won't be able to remember it, anyway). "Virgin River" writer on small towns, twists and next season: "Cameron lives to fight another day"Īrticles have called Hope the worst character on "Virgin River." Several bulging Reddit threads have declared her the most annoying while one boldly appoints her the " worst character in television history." (Perhaps that Redditer has not met Danny from " For All Mankind.") But Hope is unapologetically herself and by doing so, provides a much-needed presence on TV: that of an older, uncompromising woman dealing with a life unexpectedly changed by illness. She's probably not going to like this article. She's not going to stop talking about you. She's not going to dye her gray hair for you. I'd like to propose an ode to a different kind of heroine: Hope, the cranky grand dame of " Virgin River." But perhaps it's the transformation that I as a viewer went through, moving from being annoyed by a character to sympathetic to her plight, to having great empathy for her, even hoping she appears in more scenes. Cameron stans, devotees of various couples like Mel and Jack, or Brie and Brady. And the Netflix show has attracted a following to rival the population of Los Angeles, where heroine Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) a nurse practitioner who escapes to the picturesque community after tragedy, hails from. The fictional Northern California town of Virgin River, despite being small, sure has its share of characters. ![]()
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