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Season six of Virgin River was released on Friday, and in the episodes, viewers were given a look at the romance of Mel’s parents via flashback scenes. There has been talk of a possible prequel focusing on the pair’s love story, and now the man behind the Netflix drama is giving viewers an update on the status of that prequel.
Executive producer/showrunner Patrick Sean Smith says the project is still in development and would take place in the 1970s. He added, per Deadline:
“I personally see it a little bit like Queen Charlotte to Bridgerton. I think if there’s an opportunity to take what Virgin River as a book series was, which was each book was focusing on one couple and expanding the world outside of it, to put Sarah and Everett in the foreground of their own story, while populating, as Virgin River has, the world with supporting characters and other relationships — but all still running it through the romance lens — to me, is what defines a lot of what an expansion of the show and the franchise would be.
So it’s still keeping things romance-forward, character-based, solid story engines, the beauty of the area, but then putting that in a time period that can inform some of the issues of the time, and that can still speak and feel relevant to issues of today, which I think is what Virgin River itself has done beautifully in its balance of not being so boxy, but also having something to say that still matters.”
Jessica Rothe and Callum Kerr play Mel’s mother, Sarah, and father, singer-songwriter Everett, in the flashbacks seen in season six.
Virgin River has already been renewed for a seventh season.
What do you think? Do you want to see more of the love story between Mel’s parents in a new Netflix series?
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