‘I think it was a mistake’: Virgin River season 7 star breaks down the finale’s shock U-turn you won’t see coming
Spoilers for Virgin River season 7 coming soon.
Well I still don’t think I understand Virgin River season 7 finale on Netflix.
This is all due to Doc’s war in Season 7 against Grace Valley Hospital, a medical center in the next town that wants to take over Doc’s clinic. Worse yet, they attempted to do so by suspending Doc’s medical license, investigating his life-saving procedure from Season 6 for medical misconduct.
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Although Doc got his license back (yes), episode 10 threw a spanner in the works. Doc and Grace Valley’s Dr. Hayes (Kaj-Erik Eriksen) work together to diagnose Marley’s baby for the sake of Mel and Jack, leading Doc to suggest a potential partnership between the two.
When Hope discovers that her entire campaign against Grace Valley has come to nothing, she turns around, kicking Doc out of the house in the process. But does Doc really think a partnership would work, or was he acting on emotion in the heat of the moment?
I attributed the finale’s shock turnaround to Matheson… and even he thinks the decision might be a “mistake” in the long run.
“He thinks of every means to try to do his best with his patients”
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“I agree with you,” Matheson tells me when I explain that I didn’t buy Doc’s certainty in a partnership. “It feels like Grace Valley is the bad guy. That’s why he moved from Seattle to Virgin River in the first place, to get away from the bureaucracy and the narrow-mindedness of people who run for-profit hospitals instead of taking care of patients.
“That’s why he wanted to come to a place like Virgin River, where he could interact face to face with people, listen to them, look at them and see how he could best help them. But when Mel came into the practice and it evolved and grew, I think with Doc, having some of the facilities and money that Grace Valley has might be better for its patients than just the clinic.
“I think maybe it’s a mistake,” he continues. “But I think it’s something he’s considering because of the way he’s grown through his relationship with Mel. Modernizing his clinic has been a good thing, and maybe taking another step like that isn’t a bad thing. You can always go back.”
The man makes a good point. We barely recognize who he’s become because of Mel, and that’s for the best. Doc has opened his heart and mind, and in true great-grandfather fashion, anything can seem possible.
But where does that leave his relationship with Hope, and can they reunite?
“I think it’s just a natural evolution of their relationship,” Matheson adds of the episode 10 fight. “We’ll see where it goes and how it lands. That’s the beauty of the drama — we’re the senior couple on the show, so it’s exciting to see that even an older couple has to deal with the ups and downs of any relationship.”
Hopefully there aren’t too many downsides to what’s already confirmed Virgin River season 8, because I need them to be together again, stat.
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