3/21/2024 0 Comments Jane the virgin cast river fields![]() The secondary story of Jane and Rafael continues to be the story of Mateo, whose behavioral therapy is not working. Possibly in the form of a couples counseling session. There’s no reason it had to happen in this episode, but if these two kids are going to convince me they can really make it this time, I’m going to need to see them show their work. But I’ve been burned by them so many times! Rafael has gone from love interest to villain to love interest to friend to lost bad boy to stand-up father to jilted lover, with several swings through snotty rich guy and polite acquaintance in between, and I guess I’m looking for a bit of a longer runway where Jane and Raf talk about all of the steps they’ve been through together. Jane and Raf dance around it a bit when they’re trapped in the hippie vegan apartment Jane’s thinking about renting, and there’s that lovely moment where they sit together to think about Mateo’s treatment plan and end up with their foreheads resting against each other. I wanted one of those classic Jane conversations, where everyone sits quietly outside and hashes out all of their feelings before leaping into the big celebratory bonanza. ![]() But here, I confess, I wish there had been a tiny bit more buildup before the big musical blowout. They have to be because you don’t do a full-cast back-lot musical number if this relationship is going to blow up again tomorrow. I’m happy that Jane and Rafael are presumably going to be together now. She exists solely so that she can be kicked to the curb, and I’d feel bad about it except that she was making snarky GIFs about Jane in her Insta Stories! Go make snarky GIFs about someone else, Julie! Never has a character been more doomed from the start. It needs to communicate that this is a big, deep sigh of “finally!” Finally these two have figured it out! If ever there was a time for a grand musical statement, this is it.īut by the way, poor Julie. The show needed a big gesture to celebrate their reunion, and it needed some scene that would communicate how dramatic this is, that this should feel like a culmination. When Rafael nixes things with Julie, it’s because he’s realized that the person he wants is Jane. She corrected that, happily, but she’s continued to yearn for him, and she’s tried to be patient. ![]() Even when he told her no, she’s wanted to be with him to the point of doing some seriously unfortunate, thoughtless things. She loves him, something she’s always maintained even in the moments when she was wildly confused about Michael. ![]() Jane has been driven apart from Rafael since the first episode. The musical number also makes a lot of sense for Jane at this moment in its last season. It’s nice that it tied in so well with Mateo’s role in the school play, and on a more meta level, it absolutely cracks me up that this huge, all-cast giant musical number can get away with some hilariously rudimentary choreography because - guess what! - it’s actually the same musical number as the one performed by a whole class of first-graders! When the premise calls for dance numbers no more complex than a series of jazz hands and a few grapevines, you can get away with some adorably goofy shots of all these adults just poking their hands at the air and calling it good. I love all the self-aware bits about secondary versus main characters, I love that River Fields is dancing in it, and I love that the musical number demonstrates that Laird was obviously cast primarily because he could throw in a deep bass note when called upon. Let’s start at the end: The final song-and-dance number is delightful. Rafael and Jane are back together! They are back together and I have many, many feelings about it.
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