Virgin River launched its sixth season on Friday, and within the episodes, followers got a have a look at the romance of Mel’s dad and mom in flashbacks. There was discuss of a potential prequel specializing in the pair’s love story, and now the person behind the Netflix drama is giving followers an replace on the standing of that prequel.
With season six now airing, he’s engaged on that prequel. He teased the next, per Deadline:
“I personally see it just a little bit like Queen Charlotte to Bridgerton. I believe if there’s a possibility to take what Virgin River as a ebook sequence was, which was every ebook was specializing in one couple and increasing the world outdoors of it, to place Sarah and Everett within the foreground of their very own story, whereas populating, as Virgin River has, the world with supporting characters and different relationships — however all nonetheless working it by means of the romance lens — to me, is what defines quite a lot of what an enlargement of the present and the franchise could be.
So it’s nonetheless retaining issues romance-forward, character-based, stable story engines, the great thing about the world, however then placing that in a time interval that may inform a number of the problems with the time, and that may nonetheless communicate and really feel related to problems with right now, which I believe is what Virgin River itself has completed superbly in its stability of not being so boxy, but additionally having one thing to say that also issues.”
Jessica Rothe and Callum Kerr play Mel’s mom, Sarah, and father, Everett, within the flashbacks seen in season six. Further particulars for the prequel might be introduced later. Virgin River has been renewed for a seventh season.
What do you assume? Do you wish to see extra of the love story between Mel’s dad and mom on Netflix?