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JANE THE VIRGIN
October 13, 2014  | By David Bianculli

CW, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: It’s one of the last of the new fall series to arrive from the broadcast networks, and comes from the undersized CW network – yet Jane the Virgin, which premieres tonight and is based on a Venezuelan telenovela, is among the very best of the fresh offerings from broadcast TV this season. Gina Rodriguez stars in the title role, playing a young adult who was heeding her family’s advice to embrace chastity until marriage – until, while in a doctor’s office for an unrelated checkup, she’s mistakenly impregnated via artificial insemination. The premise is far-fetched, the characters and actors endearing, the mixture of comedy, parody and tenderness thoroughly winning. For a full review, see Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes.

 
 
 
 
 
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