![]() It’s perfectly timed to bring levity to a moment that otherwise could have become too cliché. Then in a complete break from reality, the palm trees start singing the episode’s refrain, “There’s one thing that we all know/ everything needs love to grow.” I couldn’t stop laughing through my smiles. And finally – finally – after episodes of Jane’s heart glowing alone, this time, when Raf gently places her back down on the ground and out of his arms, his heart glows right along with her. Rafael picks Jane up and her leg pops out behind her. This is the big telenovela romance that Jane Villanueva has dreamed off since she was a little girl. It’s classic romance framing, and then the music swells. The two are warmly lit in the Miami sunset, the bay behind them in a distance and a tree with white flowers above them. Photo: Kevin Estrada/The CW - © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. ![]() ![]() Jane’s heart breaks a little, glowing in the show’s well-worn yellow and pink love colors, as she sends her best friend out of her life and into Julie’s instead. Julie checks almost all the boxes, so he gives her another chance. Whoops! Apparently she uses emojis too much in her text messages – which sounds like a legitimate reason to break up with someone if you ask me – but Jane encourages Rafael to make his own “Must List” instead. Then, after Jane reassures Julie that she and Raf are just family to each other and Mateo’s co-parents, nothing more, Jane finds out that Rafael actually isn’t very into Julie at all. First, Julie worries about Rafael’s ongoing relationship with Jane. ![]() Rafael has a new girlfriend, Julie, and things have gotten off to an awkward start. Together they visit the perfect studio – or rather it will be perfect, one day, once they get the hippie patchouli smell out of every surface – and they get locked in! Iconic rom-com plot twist! He asks her to make a “Must List” (hardwood floors, in-unit laundry) and then Jane, ever the overachiever, makes a complementary “Deal Breaker List” on her own (cockroaches weren’t on it, but obviously should have been). All Rights Reserved.įor now, Jane is looking for a new apartment and Rafael has stepped up as her realtor. They are Jane the Virgin’s most sweeping romance, one that was tested and stunted, but at every turn planted roots and grew deeper, never broken. If everything needs love to grow, then there’s no better example than Jane and Rafael. Rafael, who became Jane’s best friend in the years after Michael died. Rafael, who stepped aside when Jane decided to marry her first love, Michael, instead. Rafael, whom Jane had a far away crush on when she was just a waitress at the Marbella. And at the intersection of the two, you find Jane and Rafael. At its heart, even though so much of Jane the Virgin is about family, it’s also about romance. ![]() There’s the love between Alba, Xiomara, and Jane – all three women having a famous, unshakable bond. There is Jane’s love for Mateo, which in a certain light can be viewed as the catalyst for the entire series, starting with Jane’s decision to keep the baby after she was accidentally artificially inseminated. But he was right about one thing: “Everything needs love to grow.” So much of Jane the Virgin has been about love. OK, he had a complete and total meltdown on stage, so perhaps “nailed it” is an exaggeration. Mateo really nailed it in his role as the cutest tree in his elementary school musical. Jane the Virgin Recap: Season 5, Episode 12, “Chapter Ninety-Three” ![]()
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