‘Virgin River’ Showrunner Talks Christmas Special’s Biggest Twists, Teases New Time Jump, Doc’s Prognosis, More Mel & Jack And Wedding(s) In Season 6
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the Virgin River Christmas special (Episodes 511, 512) Netflix‘s Virgin River closed out its fifth season with a two-episode Christmas special set during the holidays, more than three months after the “Labor Day” Season 5 Part 1 finale.
As suggested by the aptly titled Episode 512, “Father Christmas,” the special’s main storyline follows the bombshell cliffhanger in the Part 1 finale, that Mel’s biological father is likely a man from Virgin River.
With only a couple of clues to his identity in the man’s love letters to Mel and Joey’s mom Sarah to go off of, Mel and Jack launched a search that eventually led them to Everett Reid, who lives in a cabin outside of Virgin River.
At first, he wanted nothing to do with Mel but by the end of the two-hour special, in a true holiday spirit, he came around and, in the finale’s biggest cliffhanger, started telling her “something important” but was cut off by a Christmas song and the end credits.
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