Mel and Jack will say ‘I do’ to fortunately ever after in Season 6.
Not even a rainstorm can dim the glow of Mel Monroe and Jack Sheridan’s love story.
On a moist, wet day in June, throughout one of many last days of filming Season 6, the Virgin River crew assembles off the grid outdoors Lion’s Bay village in Vancouver, Canada. A winding path leads as much as a waterfall tucked away within the lush forest.
A pinch of daylight makes an attempt to peek by in between the storms, however the clouds preserve profitable out. In entrance of the waterfall, a lovely meadow is taking form with delicate springtime flowers. This peaceable meadow is a touchstone to Virgin River’s previous as a result of it’s the place Mel’s (Alexandra Breckenridge) organic father, Everett (John Allen Nelson), introduced her mom, Sarah, a long time earlier. Mel has introduced Jack (Martin Henderson) to this secret place to choose flowers for his or her upcoming marriage ceremony.
When Breckenridge and Henderson step onto the set to movie this scene, the solar lastly peeks out, symbolic of Mel and Jack’s journey to date — gentle and love all the time shines by ultimately.
Marriage ceremony of the (Vacation) Season
In Virgin River’s highly-anticipated sixth season, out December 19, Mel and Jack will lastly tie the knot. This isn’t going to be your run-of-the-mill TV marriage ceremony. The nuptials are the city’s model of a royal marriage ceremony.
“That’s the large occasion of the season and the occasion of the 12 months, if you’ll, for the city,” Henderson says, “There’s all this vitality behind it. After all, Hope needs it to be enormous and bombastic, and Mel and Jack need it to be particular and consultant of what they need. There’s some battle there.”
Echoing Henderson, Breckenridge admits that Mel is “imagining a sure model of her marriage ceremony that possibly a few of the different individuals within the city should not going together with. They’re form of seeing it as somewhat bit greater than she is, so she has to cope with that in numerous areas. I believe, ultimately, she feels prefer it’s not solely about her. It’s about her, nevertheless it’s not. I believe she actually needs to make everyone else completely satisfied.”
If Mel had it her approach, she’d most likely marry Jack in a spot just like the meadow. “I believe Mel want to have one thing small and intimate with simply her household and pals,” Breckenridge says.
And whereas the Virgin River timeline isn’t the identical as actuality, the townspeople and followers alike have been ready a very long time for Mel and Jack to wed. Nevertheless, that’s not going to cease an abundance of drama within the lead-up to Mel strolling down the aisle.
Dangerous Blood
Everett confirmed up on Mel’s doorstep trying to forge a relationship together with her within the Season 5 vacation episode, “Father Christmas.” Everett’s simply now getting into Mel’s life, however he’s no stranger to Virgin River. In actual fact, Doc (Tim Matheson) has severe unhealthy blood with Everett, which solely will get extra sophisticated as Everett grows nearer to Mel.
In Breckenridge’s eyes, Mel loves Doc “like a father, and that’s not going away for her. She’s simply attempting to navigate learn how to match Everett in as nicely, however the problem for Mel with Doc and Everett is that Doc hates Everett.”
Doc’s dislike of Everett stems from an incident years in the past when Everett “betrayed” Doc, Matheson adamantly factors out. “He’s accomplished nothing to indicate any regret or restoration from that. He’s hiding out within the hills, which I believe there are fairly a couple of individuals like that up within the Virgin River,” the actor provides. As Mel’s connection together with her father deepens, Doc has to “develop up a bit and recover from the truth that you may’t dangle onto outdated emotions like that without end.”
Mel is “over the moon” to get nearer to Everett, however that’s simpler stated than accomplished. “It’s somewhat bit difficult to navigate as a result of he’s an introvert in a really intense approach,” Breckenridge reveals. As a supportive husband-to-be, Henderson says Jack “turns into fairly pragmatic” about Doc and Everett burying the hatchet. “He feels rightly that it’s crucial that Mel has each of her dads on the marriage ceremony,” the actor provides.
This new father-daughter relationship can be a gateway for Mel to study extra about her late mom. Sarah died when Mel was very younger, so she has spent nearly all of her life with out her mother.”That is a tremendous window into actually attending to know her mom differently, and it’s extraordinarily necessary and intensely particular for her, particularly going into her marriage ceremony,” Breckenridge notes.
Blast Into the Previous
As Mel learns extra about her father and his relationship together with her mom, the present introduces us to a brand new love story: the one between younger Everett and Sarah. Virgin River travels again to the Nineteen Seventies, when bell-bottom denims and Don McLean’s “American Pie” had been all the fad.
When showrunner Patrick Sean Smith began constructing out Everett’s character, he knew a flashback storyline was key to introducing “one other romance that’s confined somewhat bit, versus bringing in a brand new couple within the current day.” The youthful variations of Everett and Sarah are performed by Callum Kerr and Jessica Rothe, who Smith says are “pitch good” for the pivotal roles.
Whereas the older model of Everett is jaded and closed off, his youthful self is the overall reverse. “He is filled with pleasure and marvel, and he needs to journey and see issues and doesn’t wish to be tied down and desires to have the ability to stand up and go every time he needs,” Kerr explains.
However one likelihood encounter adjustments all the things for Everett: the second he meets Sarah. Whereas Everett is in his On the Street period, Sarah’s on a mission. “She needs to make a distinction. She needs to shake issues up and alter the world,” Rothe says.
Season 6 cracks open the ebook to Everett and Sarah’s love story. Smith teases that there are many similarities to Mel and Jack — with “some Easter eggs for followers alongside the best way” — however their relationship isn’t a carbon copy.
“All of us have that person who was our old flame that we by no means stopped fascinated by, that you just simply are drawn again to time and time once more,” Rothe says. “I believe everybody can relate to that feeling of once you discover your individual, and generally destiny is beneficiant with that. I like that Sarah’s sensible, however she’s additionally an optimist. She knew she and Everett had been going to search out one another once more, and she or he has religion on the planet in these methods.”
New & Unsure Futures
The sixth season will embrace many new chapters for our city favorites. Lizzie (Sarah Dugdale) and Denny (Kai Bradbury) expect their first little one, which implies Doc and Hope (Annette O’Toole) are about to change into great-grandparents. “After a really tough final 20 years, issues with Doc are in a superb place,” O’Toole says.
Previous seasons targeted totally on Doc and Hope’s well being, and Smith needed Season 6 to be a interval of resurgence for the pair. “I believe individuals their age can have well being points, and so they even have instances of vitality and being wholesome,” the showrunner says. “I believe it hasn’t painted them in a completely completely different gentle, nevertheless it definitely has taken that one darkish cloud off the desk that has been over them for some time.”
In the meantime, Preacher (Colin Lawrence) and Kaia’s (Kandyse McClure) relationship might be examined as Preacher faces the fallout of Wes’ demise. Keep in mind, Paige (Lexa Doig) by chance killed Wes, and Preacher helped bury the physique to guard her. With the invention of Wes’ physique on the finish of final season, Preacher’s total future is in danger.
“Preacher has all the time been one to guard and struggle for others and put the nicely being of others forward of himself, so now he’s depending on the justice system,” Lawrence explains. “He’s depending on pals, for everybody, to come back collectively and to have his again and actually present the assist that he’s going to wish by what will be a extremely, actually difficult time for him.”
McClure stresses Kaia might be a “steady and loving power” for the city chef even once they’re pressured to have “troublesome conversations.” Preacher’s authorized state of affairs is “irritating” for Kaia as a result of it’s one factor she will’t repair. For somebody who is continually saving others, Kaia is now pressured to sit down again and watch as somebody she deeply cares about fights for his or her life.
Star-Crossed Lovers
In terms of Brie (Zibby Allen) and Brady (Benjamin Hollingsworth), these former lovers are in relationships with different individuals, however that invisible string between them remains to be tugging at their hearts. Are Brie and Brady proper for one another? That’s a query they’re each attempting to determine in Season 6.
“Each Brie and Brady are attempting to maneuver on down their respective paths with their new important others,” Smith teases. “I believe for Brady, he sincerely cares for Lark [Elise Gatien], and also you see how a lot he can look after an individual, and the strain of simply realizing that she’s additionally utilizing him on the identical time is simply arrange for the explosion that comes when he does discover out what she’s as much as.”
Allen says Mike (Marco Grazzini) “actually represents stability and reliability, and so they’re each on some aspect of regulation enforcement. There’s one thing that’s actually acquainted and knowable about him, and Brie wants that.” Nevertheless, she would be the first to acknowledge Brie and Brady’s “explosive emotions,” and Hollingsworth performs into that “pressure” in Season 6. “Everytime you see Brady and Brie in a scene collectively, Brady’s stealing seems. He’s continually conscious when she’s within the room,” he says.
Brie and Brady are the present’s final will-they-won’t-they pair. We love the plain warmth between them once they’re collectively, however the craving once they’re aside is simply as satisfying. “I consider that Brady’s one and real love is Brie,” Hollingsworth emphatically says. Allen agrees: “I believe that everyone knows that Brie and Brady quietly wrestle to give up one another.”
As everybody on the town joins collectively at Mel and Jack’s marriage ceremony, you may anticipate a hotbed of drama, however nothing will have the ability to distract from this celebration of real love. After going through miscommunication, near-death experiences, and a tragic loss head-on, Mel and Jack are greater than able to take the wedding plunge.
Virgin River, Season 6 Premiere, Thursday, December 19, Netflix