![]() ![]() ![]() The grumpy local who comes to her rescue mocks her small car and shames her for offering cash for the ride and only reveals he's her reluctant new boss Doc Mullins (Tim Matheson) after she's accidentally insulted him. Nurse practitioner and midwife Mel Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge) is on her way from Los Angeles to a year-long stint with a rural physician when she's run off the road by an 18 wheeler. The series opens with familiar enough shots of two-lane blacktop winding through biggish trees (sorry, British Columbia). Those who've read her work will have to let me know how she captures our region on the page, but the streaming episodes (filmed in Vancouver) are flat and flavorless. Her Virgin River novels represent a chunk of her 50-book oeuvre and are set in a fictional town of the same name somewhere in our very real Humboldt County. Then I plunged myself into the far less exciting Netflix adaptation of a series by one of its prominent members, Robyn Carr. Down the RWA rabbit hole I learned the genre has undergone some major shifts in terms of who's telling the stories and what kinds of protagonists they're putting forth, and it made me consider what we expect from the filmed genre. Last week I treated myself to a deep dive into the roiling drama of the Romance Writers of America, a professional organization undergoing a page-turner of an upheaval stemming from one member's critique of another member's blithely racist novel. ![]()
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