What is Virgin River about?
After seeing an ad for a midwife, a recently divorced big-city nurse moves to the redwood forests of California, where she meets an intriguing man.
Virgin River (2019)
A big-city nurse finds a new start and an intriguing man in a cozy, heartwarming redwood forest town.
Romantic. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Netflix.
Virgin River parents guide
The thing to know: moderate sex and nudity, more than a TV-14 usually carries. Beyond that, mild language and no real violence.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Created bySue Tenney
StarringAlexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Colin Lawrence, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Lauren Hammersley
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