By ELIZABETH
VALENTIN
Arts Editor
Season four of “Jane the Virgin” is so shocking for so many reasons. This season, we follow Jane through more than one love story. We follow Alba on her journey to obtain citizenship. And we follow Xiomara through the most difficult and heartbreaking subplot of the entire season, but in attempt to avoid spoilers, let’s leave that part mostly unspoken of.
The final episode of the season is so full of surprises. The episode picks up when Rafael and Jane are on a high in their relationship. Things seem as perfect as ever for the couple, who started their love story in the most unconventional way when Jane was accidentally inseminated and had his child. This perceived perfection becomes questionable when Rose (A.K.A. Sin Rostro) calls Rafael and harasses him to meet with her, saying that she knows information that will change his life.
Rafael refuses to meet with Rose and decides to continue the positive course that his life is taking by asking Jane’s family for their blessing to propose to her. While this is super exciting, when Rafael eventually decides to meet with Rose, things change and something that she told him makes him hesitant to propose. We find out why eventually, but that’s one of the surprises.
In other positive news, Alba is finally a U.S. citizen and her family throws her a surprise party to celebrate the occasion. While at the party, Alba makes a speech, in which she references the unofficial motto of the U.S., “E pluribus unum,” which translates to “out of one, many.” In her speech, she powerfully explains that all of the people there are the many and that they are all one because she considers each of them to be family, even if they are not her blood.
Another plot line in this episode follows Petra and J.R. Petra was being investigated for her sister’s murder, and J.R. was representing her in the case. Ultimately, Petra is dismissed and J.R. was willing disbarred in the process. Oh, and now they’re in a relationship and in this episode we realize how serious it really is.
J.R. and Petra profess their love for one another, despite Petra’s hesitation because, as she explained to Rafael, she was waiting for waiting for it to take a turn for the worst, as things usually do for her. Not so shockingly, things do take a turn for the worst, but I’ll leave the reason why a surprise.
Also in this episode, there is a wedding, but that is also a surprise.
Two more surprises: Someone dies and someone who was presumed to be dead returns. We don’t find out who dies, but we do know that they are killed. We do know who comes back, but that’s the biggest surprise of all, so I’ll leave that out.
So many surprises left me on the edge of my seat for the entire episode. It was suspected that someone would die, because what’s a “Jane the Virgin” season finale without a death or something equally as dramatic. With so many happy surprises throughout the episode, it became suspicious, which only heightened the thought that something big was coming. And boy, was that prediction true.
Fans took to all forms of social media to talk about their reactions to the episode’s ending. One twitter user, @ViancaPacheco said “How am I supposed to LIVE with this cliffhanger?”
Twitter user, e_alexjung said “Tonight’s #JanetheVirgin is another reminder that this is a perfect TV show.”
After fans reacted to the several surprises in the episode, members of the cast took to their social media as well.
Yael Grobglas, who plays Petra on the show, tweeted “We warned you this was a big one. Thanks for watching you wonderful peeps. #JanetheVirgin.”
What I will say to avoid the ultimate spoiler is that this season made me laugh uncontrollably, but also made me cry several times. By the very end of this season, I was so shocked that I didn’t have words. If that doesn’t explain how incredible this show is, I don’t know what will. This show is truly amazing and this season didn’t disappoint.
Now to wait until next fall for the new installments.
