4 reasons why I don’t love Virgin River

Is it just me? Or is Netflix’s Virgin River, really really bad*?

At first I enjoyed this take on the usual fish-out-of-water story, as the reasons for Mel’s trauma and her journey to build a new life in a small rural town unfolded. But then I hit a point, and started to really have niggling doubts about what I was watching.

I think it was when Mel’s compulsion to have a baby, despite Jack’s obvious stress over expecting twins with his ex, his PSTD and his untreated drinking problem, and her accompanying behavior toward him, which seemed…