Showrunner Sue Tenney and star Alexandra Breckinridge address that season 3 cliffhanger.
Warning: This article contains spoilers about season 3 ofVirgin River.
Virgin Riversure knows how to leave us hanging.
Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) and Jack (Martin Henderson) share a loving moment on ‘Virgin River’.NETFLIX
And the baby might not be his.
Breckenridge admits she was surprised the first time she read Mel’s confession to Jack about wanting a baby.
She wants that intimacy, she wants that honesty, and she is willing to dive in."
She’s going through this emotional roller-coaster, and she makes this decision out of that place.
It feels like now or never to her.
When she makes that decision, I don’t think it’s entirely thought out."
“Jack and Mel, their love and their commitment to each other, that doesn’t change.
How he feels about her does not change.
There’s circumstances that happen around themand the reactions and how they deal with those things.”
“I think she was going to wait and see if it stuck for her.
She’s had such a bad history of infertility.
Also, Hope’s in the hospital and everything is really emotionally charged.
She was going to wait.
Because she’s a very honest person.”
Breckenridge says that will be up to Jack.
Mel is, and has been, all in on this relationship.
“He was the last one to back out,” she notes.
“It’s a dance, it’s the drama dance, the TV dance.
But , ultimately, of course she wants to still be with him regardless of who the father is.
If it turns out that Mark is the father, how is Jack going to react?
That’s going to be hard.”
But another question remainswill Jack or Mel even want to know who the baby’s biological father is?
Or will they decide to forgo a paternity test and raise the child as their own regardless?
Breckenridge says if it were her, she’d want to know as soon as possible.
“Do you go down that road [of finding out]?”
“And if you do, why do you?
There’s a lot of complications.”
AndVirgin Riverhas as many complications as it does friendly neighbors.
Virgin Riverseason 3 is on Netflix now.
