‘Virgin River’ Season 7 Could Bring This Huge Moment for Mel and Jack
A major moment could be in store for Mel and Jack in Virgin River Season 7.
Season 6 of the Netflix series ended with Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) and Jack (Martin Henderson) saying “I do.” But what came after might have been even sweeter for the couple, who have struggled with infertility. Marley (Rachel Drance), a young pregnant woman who was one of Mel’s patients, revealed that the couple who planned to adopt her baby had backed out. Now, she wants to have Mel and Jack adopt her child.
Mel and Jack are starting ‘a new chapter’ in ‘Virgin River’ Season 7
The stunning adoption opportunity comes after Mel’s heartbreaking miscarriage in Virgin River Season 5, as well as her difficulties in conceiving and carrying a child with her late first husband. In the trailer for season 7, Mel can barely contain her excitement as she shares the news with Jack.
“She wants us to be the parents of her baby,” Mel tearfully tells her husband.
“This is the end of one chapter and the beginning of another,” she says later in the clip.
But Mel and Jack’s experience with adoption might not be entirely smooth.
“I’m gonna need a little time,” the birth mother tells the couple.
“What are we supposed to do? We’re just supposed to sit here and wait?” Jacks asks Mel.
“Well, what else can we do?” she replies. “It’s not our baby. Not yet.”
Adoption is ‘complex,’ says ‘Virgin River’ showrunner
Are Mel and Jack heading toward another heartbreak? That’s what she fears. “I wasn’t ready for how painful it would be to feel hope again,” Mel admits.
“We obviously saw the tragedy with the miscarriage in season 5, and Mel ultimately deciding that with all the past trauma that she’s experienced around not being able to conceive or losing babies, she’s done,” Henderson told Tudum. “It hurts her too much. I think it was really interesting to see the couple have to go through something so dark together and then find a way through that actually made them closer and stronger. Out of that is born this idea that they can still have their dream, [but] it just might look a little different.”
Virgin River’s adoption storyline also aims to show the real-life complexity of the process, showrunner Patrick Sean Smith, who adopted a child with his husband, told Tudum.
“Looking at alternative forms of becoming parents is important,” he said. “I feel like I’ve always only seen adoption as this very simple transaction of ‘she wants a baby, and you don’t want your baby.’ But it’s much more complex than that. So I want to see a really special journey between Mel and Jack as they come to discover the baby that was meant for only them.”
Virgin River Season 7 premieres March 12 on Netflix.
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