Series · Netflix · 2019
Virgin River
A place that still needs a nurse. The romance is the advertisement. The work is better.
Melinda Monroe comes to Virgin River to disappear into a job and finds that a small place will not let a competent woman stay a stranger. That is a good story when the camera stays on the birth, the veteran, the girl who needs a doctor. It thins out when every adult must also be somebody's unfinished romance.
Fine for a grown evening if you are willing to forgive the twists. Not a family hour. Keep the episodes where someone is healed by work. Leave the ones that are only a revelation in a doorway.
The eight
Industry
7/10
She delivers babies and keeps a clinic that would close without her.
Household
7/10
People are trying to make a house after loss. The affairs are the tax.
Piety
4/10
Care is the reverence. Church is scenery if it appears at all.
Courage
6/10
She stays in a town that did not ask politely.
Republic
7/10
The unit is a main street: a bar, a clinic, a mayor, a doctor who is tired.
Temperance
5/10
Melodrama is the portion size. It is more than a tired person needs.
Truth
6/10
Secrets drive the plot, and the show is usually on the side of telling them.
Stewardship
7/10
A clinic and a child are what the town is trying not to lose.
Live historicallyThank a person in your town who does a job the town would notice if it stopped.