Posted on 10/11/2014 3:22:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The world of television is about to get a little stranger - and a whole lot more dramatic.
Jane The Virgin is gearing up for its series premiere, and its plot line has already set tongues wagging.
The CW show follows a religious girl who has never had sex before, but ends up pregnant after her emotionally unstable doctor accidentally inseminates her.
Unsurprisingly the series, which stars Gina Rodriguez and Jaime Camil, is already causing quite a stir.
Would it happen in real life? Probably not. Does that make it any less entertaining? Definitely not.
Jane The Virgin is loosely based on the Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen, which ran from March to October 2002, and discernibly winks at that by taking the over-the-top soap opera theme to another level.
In the pilot alone, viewers are taken on a wild ride while seeing, as the Latin Lover Narrator describes it, Janes world transform into her very own telenovela.
When Jane, played by fresh-faced star on the rise Gina Rodriguez, discovers she is expecting a child, she has a big decision to make.
The problem (or rather, one of the many problems) is that the former playboy father is a cancer survivor named Rafael, who just so happens to be the person Jane shared her first kiss with...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Gosh, I wonder why the entertainment industry would lampoon the Immaculate Conception and abstinence?
lampoon the Immaculate Conception
Outright mocked in Star Wars Ep 1. Mocked outright.
Heh.
It lets them slam the religious devotion of Hispanics as well, while remaining “playful”.
With all due respect, please look up the Immaculate Conception; you have the wrong idea.
Nevertheless, I agree with you that Hollywood never passes on an opportunity to mock Christianity.
50’s/60’s - the hero is the valiant, the brave, the strong
now - the hero is the lowest common denominator.
When a show starts with sex it usually means that it is planned to be one long climax.
Sorta like the problem of incurring a 4 hour you know.
After a while it ceases to be a good time.
You are better off switching the channel and watching reruns.
Maybe she's a lying slut. It could happen.
The Daily Wail has gone as liberal as the Tories. Surprising? Not after what David Cameron pulled.
No, Daily Wailers, I will not be watching this “refuse”.
Joe Friday: Connie, I’d like you to meet my maternal grandmother Mrs. Grace Mundy. Granny, this is the virgin Connie Swail.
Granny Mundy: You’re kidding.
Connie Swail: Hi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtKUyfkBA2w
Pep Streebeck: Hey partner. I tried to call you up till midnight. I didn’t know the Christian Science reading rooms stayed open so late.
Joe Friday: Not that it’s any of your business, but I spend the evening in the company of Connie Swail.
Pep Streebeck: Don’t you mean “the Virgin Connie Swail”?
[Friday looks at Streebeck as the Dragnet theme starts]
Pep Streebeck: Wait a minute!
-Dragnet (1987)
I am with you.
Of course they couldn’t name her something like Shaneequa or Linda, it had to be Jane, an older name that is sometimes combined with Mary. And an immaculate conception??!! Could they be any more obvious.
I group this with ET, a movie about a being who dies and comes back to life with the promise of coming back, which I took as mocking Christ.
Gwyneth Paltrow is the perfect face for the Hollywood cesspool.
Oh, you’re quite right, not the same thing as the Virgin Birth.
“Jerry Van Dyke’s mother is reincarnated in an antique automobile. “
And to think he could have been Gilligan.
Cop Rock was the strangest TV idea ever. This one is just kind of one note. Accidental pregnancy is old, accidental pregnancy not resulting from drunken sex not that much different.
Every now and then I look up the YT with that last 10 or so seconds; the rest of the movie was a loony Dan Ackroyd faux-occult disaster, not unlike Ghostbuster II.
Nothing good ever comes out of hollywood.
At least it wasn’t the result of a dwarf coupling,
anyway I thought the title was, “Jane the Vegan”
a humorous look at the vegetably obsessed, carnophobes.
Wait -the Julie Newmar one sounded like the greatest show ever....where do I find it?
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