Warning: The next article accommodates spoilers from Virgin River Season 4, now streaming on Netflix.
We have to discuss Cameron.
One of many new faces launched in Virgin River‘s fourth season, Dr. Hayek (Mark Ghanimé) makes an on the spot impression on the townsfolk, particularly the women of the stitching circle. And may you blame them? It’s not each day {that a} good-looking new physician strikes to the middle-of-nowhere locale, so it comes as no shock when Muriel tells Jack, “It’s about time you bought some competitors round right here, mister.”
No Virgin River fan price their salt really believes that Cameron might come between Mel and her man — particularly if you do not forget that she may be pregnant along with his little one — however that doesn’t cease Cameron from attempting.
“[Mel and Cameron] get alongside effectively in some methods as a result of they arrive from the identical medical world,” Alexandra Breckenridge tells TVLine. “However I used to be shocked within the [season premiere] at how daring he was. In a kind of first scenes, he says, ‘You referred to as me engaging.’ Mel is like, “Wow, that’s not what I meant.’ He didn’t know she had a boyfriend on the time, however it was fairly ahead. Mel actually took it in stride and was comparatively variety about it. The previous Mel would have chewed him alive for it.”
The one-sided flirtation continues all through the season, with a number of characters — everybody from Doc to Brady, of all individuals — questioning Cameron’s intentions. To his credit score, Cameron by no means makes any undesirable advances in the direction of Mel, however he does cross a line in Episode 11. With out giving an excessive amount of away, let’s simply say that he provides some unsolicited recommendation about Mel’s relationship with Jack that she doesn’t admire.
“For the period of time they’ve identified one another, he actually oversteps when he offers his opinion about Jack,” Breckenridge says. “It clearly comes from a spot the place he’s developed a crush on Mel. She is aware of it, however she doesn’t actually need to admit it. We’ll see the place that takes them in Season 5.”
Talking of Season 5, filming is at present underway — and it’s going to check Mel’s endurance in methods she by no means anticipated.
“She is aware of that the clinic goes to wish a brand new physician [when Doc retires], and she or he desires to make all of that work,” Breckenridge says of Mel’s working relationship with Cameron transferring ahead. “I can’t think about Mel having the ability to maintain again her true emotions about that and being so variety to him. She’s simply being variety as a result of she desires him to remain on the clinic.”
What are your ideas on Cameron? Did he actually overstep, or was he proper to supply recommendation primarily based on his personal failed relationship? Are you hoping he and Mel can work issues out on the clinic? Drop ’em in a remark beneath.
