Birthdays can be an emotional time. When celebrating making another revolution around the sun, its difficult to not take stock of one’s life and where you stand. And when you hit those decade mile markers, its damn near impossible to … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S05E05 “Chapter 86”

Fives seasons into Jane the Virgin, I feel comfortable in asserting that there are 2 virtues one must possess in order to love this show: patience and hope. Seeing is that the show is both a primetime dramedy and telenovela, … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S05E04, “Chapter 85”

I’m going to be honest here.  After the waste of time with recycled plot that was Chapter 83, I found myself dreading having to watch and recap the follow up to it.   I was in no mood for more of … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S05E03, “Chapter 84”

Now that the dust has settled on the return of Michael, things on JtV are beginning to look more familiar (for better or for worse).  I was delighted that the Narrator was back to having fun and the on-screen text … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S05E02, “Chapter83”

Welcome back, Janiacs!  After what seemed like an eternity, Jane the Virgin has returned for its farewell tour.   Just as my emotions are mixed on one of my favorite shows returning just for it to end, I’m equally conflicted on … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S05E01, “Chapter 82”

Episode Grade: A- Be careful what you wish for. Is that the theme of the episode? No, not at all. It’s the lesson I am learning for wishing that this season would come to an end so I’d have my … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E17 “Chapter 81”

Episode Grade: B Life’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. It may be a cliche but it also is a pretty apt way to sum up this episode. It’s wonderful to have goals (or so I hear) to work towards, … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E16, “Chapter 80”

Episode Grade: A- I start this week with an apology for those of you Janeiacs who might have come looking for this review sooner but none was to be found. I wish I had some salacious or fascinating tale of … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E15, “Chapter 79”

Episode Grade: A- There are so many things about Jane the Virgin to appreciate, but one reason that comes at the top of my list is that it’s populated by a diverse group of strong women. Jane, Petra, Xiomara, and … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E14, “Chapter 78”

Episode Grade: A What do you do when you have a great story but you’ve already told it? Change the point of view and give it a fresh look. Not only does that lesson Jane got from her writing class … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E13, “Chapter 77”

Episode Grade: B+ Criticism is almost never easy to hear, but it’s especially agonizing when that critic is the voice in your own head. I think for a lot of people, they either block that noise out to press on … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E12, “Chapter 76”

Episode Grade: B-/C+ Hi Janeiacs. We’re back. Not only from another brief hiatus, but also back to where we were a couple episodes ago. Only this time with more sex, since Jane and Raf are doing the bippity boppity (which … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E11, “Chapter 75”

Episode Grade: A If I didn’t know better, I’d swear this show has been spending it’s 2018 episodes to address all the complaints I had been making about it this season, because lo and behold, we finally get some quality … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E10, “Chapter 74”

Episode Grade: B Life is full of having to make decisions, and the more people affected by those decisions, the harder they are to make (and later on change). If I had to say there was a theme to this … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E09, “Chapter 73”

Episode Grade: B+ Welcome back Janeiacs and Happy New Year.  The shows been away for what seems ages so I can’t believe I’m just now getting a chance to say that.  If you’re anything like me, those weeks away and … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E08 “Chapter 72”

Episode Grade: B Just when I felt I was getting some footing in how to writeup this show, the CW benched it for a few weeks and just threw in one episode before it went off for its little winter … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E07 “Chapter 71”

Yay! I finally get to post a writeup of an episode the night of its airing. Hopefully from here on out that’s how it’ll go. Chapter 70 started off teasing again about the soon to be death on the show, … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E06 “Chapter 70”

Welcome back readers to my JtV reviews, and welcome back Lina to the show. I really love Diane Guerrero on the show and its always nice to give Jane some female bonding time. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E05 “Chapter 69” Review

Episode Grade: B+ Welcome to my 4th and final review that’s playing catchup on this season. Next one I’ll be all caught up on Fridays going forward for those other Janiacs on the site (if that’s not the right term … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E04 “Chapter 68” Review

Episode Grade: A With so much going on in every episode of JtV, it can be hard to determine a central theme of an episode. This week that was not the case as the clear theme of the chapter was … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E03 “Chapter 67” Review

Episode grade: B To every person, there is a duality, or at least that the premise that is established in this episode of Jane the Virgin. Sure, for most people there are probably more than that: a work persona, the … Continue reading Jane the Virgin: S04E02 “Chapter 66” Review