The end of JaneTheVirgin was a glorious wash of tears and celebrations. kvanaren spoke with showrunner JennieUrman about Jane’s lovefest finale
One last porch cry for the Villanueva women. Photo: Lisa Rose/The CW The finale of Jane the Virgin is a glorious wash of tears and celebrations. It’s the result of the show’s complicated, messy, often surprising, melodramatic, emotional story, steered over five seasons of twists and shocks, and it’s a way to give everyone in the Villanueva family a happy ending.
I didn’t want there to be huge jeopardy in the finale in terms of, Is something gonna go wrong with the wedding, are they not gonna make it there? or big crime and all that. I really wanted it to be about the anxiety of ending something.
The things that were surprising to me were in the episode before. I wasn’t sure about a confrontation between Rose and Jane. I’ve always kept Jane separate from Rose, and I was talked into having that big penultimate showdown. The other big thing was Rafael’s parents.
There’s a gut feeling you have when you’re running a show and when you’ve been living with the characters for so long. Nothing was feeling right until this pitch. Also, within the structure of the show, there’s a lot of buildup. Sometimes, the most dramatic things in their lives now is this absence of drama, because they’re so used to these big crazy telenovela twists. He realizes he has everything he needs in front of him.
Meanwhile, the wedding itself almost feels like a concession to how impossible it is to put words to such an important moment, with Jane and Rafael being unable to say their own vows out loud. I have to imagine a lot of actors were actually crying in those scenes. Yes, it’s supposed to be a soundstage for This Is Mars. But, you know, we are revealing the bones of the show at the same time.Right behind where part of the house is, yeah.The last scene was the bus sequence of getting Jane dressed. We ended the pilot on the bus, and we ended our season finale on the bus, which felt nice.Oh my God. We would drop off people when their parts were done, and every time somebody left, they’d be wrapped and it was very emotional.
I expected it to be intense. I think it ended up being more intense than I expected. The strange through-line is, Michael’s such a great guy, why would you bring him back if he wasn’t going to end up with her? Two things that are interesting about that. One is I brought him back for the propulsive nature of the storytelling, and I wanted to look at how people and characters change. And you know, it’s a telenovela.
She’s not ever trying to hurt anyone. She’s trying to figure out what she wants amidst all these impossible situations. So she had a little bit of a rough moment, with regards to Rafael. But at the end of the day, that’s the journey that we wanted her to take to find her way back to Rafael and flip the power dynamics a little bit. Who’s rich and who’s poor? Who’s going to stay home and mind the shop while the other reaches for bigger dreams? All of that was part of the calculus.
Looking back at the whole series, are there choices that surprised you? Things you really hadn’t expected to be a part of this story? Then there are certain themes in the first season that we return to. Ending up in the bus in the finale. Having some sort of pregnancy in the finale. Really leaning into big cliffhangers at the end of each season. That’s all stuff that came in that first season when we created the math of the show.
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