Take Three: Jane the Virgin

Jane the Virgin: Season 1, Episode 3 “Chapter Three” (B+)

The soapiness is only getting soapier on this show as the intrigue intensifies and gets even more complicated. What’s nice to see is that Alba, the most staunch and stoic personality out of everyone on the show, is actually a dynamic character capable of change, able to recognize that her granddaughter should be able to have sex with the man she’s about to marry and to deal effectively with her daughter’s actor baby daddy trying to approach Jane before her mother has a chance to break the news to her. As usual, Jane had plenty on her plate, most notably almost having sex for the first time with Michael, though the TV greeting from Rafael and the subsequent pulling of the fire alarm by a panicked Luisa put a considerable damper on that near achievement. Michael talked his way out of getting caught confronting Petra, but now he’s in over his head as he’s ready to turn her in to the police but realizes that he’s complicit because he removed her necklace from the crime scene. The biggest development is that Petra dropped a very revealing and unintentional clue while she was talking to Rafael that is sure to lead him to uncover the full truth about her affair with Zazo, and I’m curious to see how that will unfurl their relationship, which for the moment seems to be going well. The drama on this show is in full swing, and I can see this show – which recently got awarded a full season by the CW – being capable of lasting a long time.