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I couldn't stop rolling my eyes. She announces that they even have lattes in Kuala Lumpur and that she was there with Doctors without Borders. Seriously? It's a huge metropolitan city with skyscrapers and modern hospitals. Of course they have lattes. She says she worked 5 years as a Nurse Practitioner in a level 1 trauma ER, yet later, she's a Nurse Midwife. That makes zero sense. The crusty old doc suggests putting honey on the back y bottle nipple. A 72 year old physician is not from the dark ages. He would know the risk of infant botulism in a 3 week old is very real. He leaves the fact that a pregnant patient has protein in her urine out of her chart. Why? I'm struggling to get through the second episode. The characters are two-dimensional cliches and the storyline is as predictable as a Hallmark special.

This show was great! Haven't slept that great in awhile. Hard to find a show that's so boring it luls you right to sleep. Happily though I've been on episode 4 for weeks because within seconds BAM! I'm out.

How on earth did this show get a 7.7 rating? I'm pretty sure it's only on Netflix because Hallmark channel passed on it for being too sappy.

One cliche after another. One stereotype after another. So much foreshadowing you'd have to be brain dead to not guess what's going to happen. Even worse than anything from hallmark.

Okay, so...seasons 1 and 2 were light and fluffy guilty pleasures. In season 3 the muck started to get a bit thick but it could still be waded through. Season 4? Oh.my.god. We are up to our eyebrows in slop. The script: implausibilities heaped upon improbabilities, as if it was cobbled together by the Really Bored and Brainless Housewives of Omaha, after they had their third glass of Costco box chardonnay. This version of "Virgin River" is where Krispy Kreme donuts go when they want to fall into a vomit-inducing sugar coma. Be prepared to keep asking yourself the most obvious and pertinent question: "Are you #*@%ing kidding me?"

I have never left a review here, but this show is so cringey bad, I had to create an account here just to warn people. I'm not sure how Virgin River has such a high rating, the acting is atrocious and cheesy, the characters are so cardboard, and the situations in the show are so unrealistic and laughable.

Let's start with the dialogue, people don't talk like this in real life!

It's so cheesy, I literally roll my eyes during pretty much every scene.

The character Hope, as others have pointed out has to be the most obnoxious character ever created, there is absolutely nothing likable about her. I think she's supposed to come off as "quirky" or something but she's just horrible and annoying, and one of the worst actresses I've ever seen. They would be better off killing off her character.

The main character Mel is not so bad but her vocal fry is so grating! Every time she delivers a line it's like she can't be bothered to use her actual voice, and tries to sound like a Kardashian.

The Preacher guy? Don't even get me started, how does he have time to run a restaurant full time, cooking all gourmet, organic meals farm to table, take care of some lady's kid, form relationships, kill off bad guys? Its just too much, give me a break! Nobody is like this in real life.

Let's get into the time frame of the show, how much time is supposed to have elapsed between the first season and the fifth? Because that Charmaine chick has been pregnant the whole time and longer than any other human being on the planet has ever been pregnant, She needs to be studied in a lab or something, The other lady who had a baby in the first season and then died, her baby hasn't aged at all! And yet all of this drama and stuff has supposed to have happened in the meantime so seriously how much time has gone by?

So many other things I could go on about, like the woman taking over the Paige lady's cupcake truck. Um how exactly did that work? You can't just take over someone else's business like that ! Not to mention they make it seem like it's so easy to run, when they had no experience prior.

Ugh I could go on forever but I'll stop because I'm getting annoyed just thinking about all the idiocy.

This show is good, OTHER THAN Hope. Her character is insufferable. She's whiny and her acting is so terrible. I have to rate this show a 1 just alone due to her acting. I cringe every time she's on screen and have to fast forward through her scenes.

Also can someone please give that lady some chapstick?

Amateur acting, subpar screenplay, awful directing...I can't even imagine why the actors agreed to cast in this $h¥£show... Predictable, stale, fake, pretty much sums up the show... It reminded me of another awful show "Revenge"...it reminded me of that...same theme and genre. Both terrible...only survived till mid of first season and the agony of getting through another episode was too much to bear.

If you really have nothing to do but to watch this show, go take a walk, or draw yourself a bath, eat a piece of cake, or go camping...it will be a better use of your time than watching this show. I feel writing a review was a betrayal of my time which I will never get back.

Wow I am surprised the reviews are this high.

This show is slow, depressing, actually morbid.

Every episode is filled with depressing story after story. The characters are weak and sappy.

This show could take the happiest moment in a persons life and make them run to their doctor the next day and beg for the strongest dose of an antidepressant.

I can't help but think if I was living with these people I would do everything to get the heck out of there.

This miserable show is right up there with a million little things on the depressing scale .

I see some people binged on this show, beyond me how they are able to do that.

Yesterday my husband and I gave it a try again. We ended up reaching for the control after watching one episode of season 4. It is so CONTRIVED! And it has the most annoying characters I've ever scene on TV. I think they should hold a contest to select the most annoying one. I would have voted for Hope, but this season she has a lot of competition. They all caught the Hope virus.

The whiny affect and bad acting of the female lead is like fingernails on a chalk board.

Bad acting, story and music. Would have been perfect for a soap opera. Netflix blew it on this unless they have algorhythm that says series like this are a hit with a big enough per centage of the population to make a few every year. Scenery was nice though.

So messy, no real storyline and no close off of season 2. Don't watch it.

No character development, no interesting unique issues or point of view. You can miss 20 min of the show and still nothing important happens. The best case is you'll forget about it once you turn it off. Regret wasting my time. The only one thing that was good is amazing lanscapes.

Couldn't get through the first episode.

Predictable, trope-laden, wooden, mindless junk.

Perfect fodder for the viewer hooked on Hallmark schlock, however.

This is just a poorly acted ridiculously scripted soap opera.

I was so looking forward to season 3 as first 2 seasons were pretty good with good acting and likeable characters.

However season 3 deteriorated into farce.

The cliffhanger episode 10 was a joke. The actors did their best with a story line that appeared the writers were on steroids and ice at the same time and didn't want to come back for a 4th .

Misery after death after misery. After tragedy .Seriously what happened to fun. In a Covid world who needs this pile of unhapiness Seriously it was such a shame the waterfall stole the show ,actors should have striked against the writers.

This show is terrible. As the episodes/seasons progress it gets worse. Mel/Jack are so disgustingly morose. And oh my god, get over the deaths! Every episode, "when my xxx died" and "I know this isn't the time to talk about this but..." or "can we finish the conversation from earlier" all of which are convos about their relationship and how nothing works, etc. Seriously, one of the worst shows on Netflix. There is zero smiling and zero happiness between theses two. The sister lawyer is comical. She may as well be reading her lines off an index card. The Brady, criminal, etc. Issues are stupid and drone on and on with no point. The teen girl calling her boyfriend "dummy" is terrible. Who thought that was a good idea? Not cute and horrible acting. Hope- probably one of the worst characters. Unnatural over-acting. Mel's facial expressions remind me of Robert Pattinson as Edward in the movie Twilight. His attempts at looking like the tortured vampire made him looked constipated. Me looks the same. Absolutely awful.

Just unrealistic. Predictable to the max. Had to stop at the second episode.