There was just something so fun about the Virgin River holiday episodes after recent happenings on the Netflix

romantic drama, and that’s a sentiment star Martin Henderson shares.

“I thought they were my favorite, actually. It was so fun to do, especially after I think this Season 5 was relatively heavy

with what the characters all went through with the fire and the workshop,” he told TV Insider. “There was just so much. I think previous seasons were probably more feel good throughout the whole, whereas this had some much more contentious stuff going on and to sort of then be released back into the really fun, joyful Christmas stuff at the end felt really good.”

But it wouldn’t be Virgin River without some drama. Below, Henderson ponders what’s next when it comes to some of those big moments, as well as shares what he knows about Season 6 and his thoughts on Jack’s ideal wedding.

How might Jack react to finding out Calvin (David Cubitt) is the father of Charmaine’s (Lauren Hammersley) twins and that Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) is keeping that secret for Charmaine?

Martin Henderson: Yeah, I don’t know. It’s funny because I have my idea of how I think Jack would react, but then ultimately, the writers will write whatever they think will happen, and it’s not always the same. So we’ll wait and see what they decide.

I actually thought Jack would’ve been less forgiving with Charmaine at the beginning of Season 5 when he was trying to wrap his head around that betrayal and said, “I don’t want anything to do with the woman.” And then Mel suggests, “Well, in order to move on for yourself, you got to forgive her,” and blah, blah. Then they have this sort of apology at the end, and that’s it. I was like, oh, I don’t think Jack would’ve come to that decision quite as easily or quickly. So I don’t know. Sometimes you get surprised by what I believe the character’s feelings are and then how the writers articulate that.

But it is an interesting point because Mel and Jack said they would never keep anything from each other, and then here she is, keeping this giant [thing] from him. So who knows? The writers might conveniently forget that little pact or just have it not come up in the conversation. But I think that could be a really fun thing to explore with the characters. Now they’re at this stage where they’re engaged to get married, they’re making this commitment, and they’re setting the ground rules for their relationship, and they’re talking about what the boundaries are and what aspects of trust that they have to both have in order to feel safe. And you could argue that this is a little betrayal of that pact, and it’s one of those complicated things because yes, she’s made a promise to Jack, but now she’s made a promise to Charmaine, and she can’t do both at the same time. time. So where do her loyalties lie? We’ll wait and see.

What does the ideal wedding look like for Jack at this point?

One of the things I like about Jack is he’s a very humble kind of guy. I like that he’s not a showy man. There’s something very grounded about him. He’s very at home in Virgin River. He chose to make that his home. He doesn’t drive a flashy car. There’s just something quite grounded about him. So I hope the wedding will reflect that. But at the end of the day, I think if Mel insists on something a little more glamorous, then I can’t imagine he would deny her that.

What can you say about Season 6?

Yeah, there’s some good ones, but I don’t want to give it away. We jump forward a little bit, I believe, although now that the strike and everything has changed our shooting, we’re going to be shooting in winter, and so that might affect some of the creative decisions about the timeline, about where the show will sit. But I’m pretty sure we’re jumping a little bit forward, so I think it’ll be quite fun for the audience to leap forward a little bit with the characters, because the last five seasons essentially took place over about nine months, give or take. It would be fun to just leap the characters a little bit further forward, and it’ll be fun to see where we find Mel and Jack, let’s just say that.