Virgin River is nearly again for season 7 after ending on a significant cliffhanger for Charmaine.
In the course of the season 6 finale, which aired in December 2024, Lauren Hammersley‘s divisive character appeared to go lacking when her dwelling was discovered ransacked. Charmaine and her twin infants had been gone, which precipitated concern amongst followers about whether or not they had been taken — or if one thing extra sinister befell.
Hammersley, 45, hinted she nonetheless didn’t have any solutions about what’s to come back after sharing a textual content change with Virgin River showrunner Patrick Sean Smith by way of Instagram in February 2025.
“Am I useless?” she wrote within the display screen grabs. “It’s OK if I’m useless I simply have to know if I ought to begin placing resumes out at Wendy’s or one thing.”
Between a solid exit, love triangle issues and a number of other open-ended story traces, Virgin River has quite a lot of questions that want answering in season 7 — however is each solid member returning for extra episodes? Virgin River, which premiered in 2019, is predicated on Robyn Carr’s e book sequence and follows the lives of residents dwelling (…)
Hammersley additionally supplied a artistic method for her character to exit, including, “So … IF Charmaine dies this yr, may you please drown her within the river? I believe that might be EPIC.”
Based mostly on the e book sequence written by Robyn Carr, Virgin River facilities across the lives of residents dwelling in a small city in Northern California, together with Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) and her love curiosity, Jack (Martin Henderson). The sequence additionally stars Colin Lawrence, Annette O’Toole, Tim Matheson, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Sarah Dugdale, Zibby Allen, Marco Grazzini, Mark Ghanimé and Kai Bradbury.
Lauren Hammersley as Charmaine Roberts of VIRGIN RIVER.
Courtesy of NetflixEarlier than returning on Thursday, March 12, the present left a number of characters in limbo. Mel and Jack lastly received married — however they had been thrown for a loop when a teen lady requested them to undertake her child.
There was additionally a love triangle involving exes Brie (Allen) and Brady (Hollingsworth), who slept collectively. Brie broke the infidelity information to her boyfriend Mike (Grazzini) — just for him to suggest to her.
Smith, in the meantime, didn’t have a lot to say when requested about the place the present was going — or about Charmaine’s future.
“Charmaine has discovered herself in the midst of a multitude, which is a spot the place she tends to reside and it pulls our character into it,” he solely informed Us Weekly in December 2024. “Not simply Jack and Mel, however there are another characters that discover themselves pulled into it as effectively.”
Netflix’s longest-running scripted sequence Virgin River has gone by means of some stunning solid adjustments — so who is anticipated to seem in season 7? Based mostly on Robyn Carr’s e book sequence, Virgin River follows the lives of residents dwelling in a small city in Northern California, together with Mel and Jack. The hit sequence, which premiered in 2019, (…)
Smith additionally weighed in on the probabilities of extra flashbacks after season 6 launched Everett’s (John Allen Nelson) love story with Mel’s mother, Sarah, who died when she was 11 years outdated.
“(It could) broaden Sarah and Everett’s story extra whereas additionally increasing and studying extra in regards to the historical past of Virgin River,” Smith informed Us. “One reference that was made within the pilot that had by no means actually been explored earlier than was Hope says that the McCrae Cabin is a spot that individuals inside 50 miles know all about, which suggests there she has a kind of household legacy to this space that we haven’t actually gotten to scratch the floor of.”
Smith mentioned that the Sarah and Everett flashbacks are just the start of “increasing the Virgin River-verse.”
“Once we dedicated to the thought of introducing Everett, it felt like a terrific alternative as someone who we all know has resided within the space however has form of eliminated and remoted himself from the group to have this historical past and have this relationship to this city and to this space,” Smith defined, including that it “felt like a chance that we may introduce a brand new couple, which the present has executed pretty constantly over the course of the seasons, and never inherit one other couple that now we have to maintain servicing within the current.”
Virgin River is at the moment streaming on Netflix. Season 7 premieres Thursday, March 12.