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Oct 13, 2014 · Chapter One: Directed by Brad Silberling. With Gina Rodriguez, Andrea Navedo, Yael Grobglas, Justin Baldoni. Jane finds her life turned upside down when she is artificially inseminated by accident.
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- Comedy
- Brad Silberling
- 2014-10-13
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— Xiomara to Jane
Pilot (aka Chapter One) is the premiere of Season 1 of Jane the Virgin.
Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez) is a driven young woman studying to become a teacher, nursing a dream to be a writer, and supporting herself with a job at a hot new Miami hotel. All the years of watching telenovelas with the two women who raised her – her sexy, young-at-heart mother, Xiomara (Andrea Navedo) and her still-devout grandmother, Alba (...
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The show opens with a flashback featuring 10-year-old Jane Gloriana Villanueva. According to a voice-of-God narrator, Jane loves family, God, and grilled cheese sandwiches. We’re then introduced to her abuelita whose interests include God and Jane. Just as Jane’s instructed to examine the beautiful white flower her grandmother has handed her, mom Xiomara interrupts Alba saying that that's so lame. Xiomara—who had Jane out of wedlock when she was a teen—is interested in Jane and Mexican pop star Paulina Rubio. After Xiomara interruption, Alba continues to tell Jane to: "Crumple the flower, Jane. Now try to make it look new again. Go on, try," says Jane’s grandmother in subtitled Spanish. "I can't." Jane says back a bit sad. "You can never go back. And that’s what happens when you lose your virginity. You can never go back. Never forget that Jane." Her grandmother tells her and teaches her to never lose her virginity too soon and before she gets married.
Fast-forward 13 and a half years later to a hot-and-heavy make-out session between a grown-up Jane and her boyfriend of two years, Michael Cordero, whom Jane has managed to keep sexually at bay. Mid-make-out, Jane looks up, where the crumpled white flower—which now sits in an attractive white frame—is posted above her bed. Time to practice some Chakra breathing techniques because Jane’s about to shut this session down and send Michael—rookie detective badge in hand—on his way... So Jane stops before they get to having sex and she goes with him to the door to say goodbye to him. Michael leaves and Jane kisses him before he goes. After her goodbye, Jane goes into the house to watch telenovelas with her grandmother and mother. She tells them that telenovelas have ruined romance for her.
We’re next introduced to Rafael Solano: a hotel owner, former playboy, and trapped husband. He’s just received news about a financial crisis involving the hotel and is being consoled by his wife, Petra. She tells him to relax… and then heads downtown while Rafael gives a contented sigh. We all know what that means. (So far sexual acts on a show about a virgin include a make-out session, one sweet kiss, one telenovela smooch, and one bl-- job.) But Petra—who is introduced as a conniving "man-eater"—has a problem of her own: Her husband doesn’t love her. Later on, Petra talks to her mother who happens to be psychic and tells her that her husband doesn't love her anymore, but Petra is convinced she's wrong. Meanwhile, at the hotel, Jane and her best friend Lina are in a locker room working in the hotel. Lina tells Jane that maybe Michael is going to propose but Jane denied that they have a timeline.
Next Roman Zazo enters the room and Lina asks him who he is; he works for the management company that just bought the hotel. He passes out straws to Jane and her female coworkers. Guess who gets the proverbial and literal short end? That’d be Jane. "Congratulations," says Roman. "You’ve got the tail." A mermaid tail, to be precise—which Jane wears as she floats on a half shell in the hotel pool, with a bottle of champagne in hand. The characters' worlds start to converge as this is Rafael's hotel. He's nearby debating with his sister whether he should get a divorce from pouty-lipped Petra. But this is a telenovela offshoot, so of course, Petra has been listening to their conversation the entire time.
Rafael gets up and walks straight into Jane’s direction, which causes her to freak out. She dumps the bottle of champagne and belly flops into the pool. Thanks to Jane's friend (hereto referred to as Sassy Latina #1), we learn that they've met before: "You had a monster crush on him!" Before the rest of the cocktail waitresses can chime in, Jane volunteers to walk a couple of bottles of champagne to a waiting table. She’s coolly pouring glasses for guests—well as coolly as a girl with wet hair, a bedazzled bikini top, and a skin-tight mermaid tail can—when Rafael walks over. She looks familiar, he says. Did he once meet her at the strip club? Jane’s response: "Jerk."
Abuela asked me never to tell you what she said and I... I didn't want you to look at her differently
— Xiomara to Jane
And right now, I'm confused about every single thing in my life – except you
— Jane proposing to Michael
•The show is written like a book. At first there's a prologue, then chapters.
•The day Jane learns she is pregnant is also the 2-year anniversary of when she and Michael started dating.
•Rafael's sister, Luisa, accidentally inseminated Jane.
•Petra wants the baby in order to secure her pre-nup money.
•Petra slaps Rafael when he asks for a divorce.
•Rafael had cancer and the specimen that inseminated Jane is his last chance to have a child.
•Jane's father is Rogelio De La Vega, Jane's favorite telenovela actor — Xo kept his identity a secret from both Alba and Jane from when she was 16.
•Xo wrote to Rogelio about Jane 16 months prior.
•Rafael is the father of Jane's child.
•Rafael and Jane kissed five years prior and Jane had a crush on him.
•Petra is sleeping with Zaz, Jane's boss and Rafael's friend.
•Xiomara had sex with Bruce.
•Miami
•Villanueva Home
•Hospital
•The Marbella
•Michael's house
•Solano Penthouse
una flor | JUANES
Jane kisses Michael goodbye as he's off to work/When Xo sees Rogelio in his new telenovela 16 months prior at Carla's Croquetas/At the end when Jane proposes
oh! magally | LEANDRO FALOTICO
petra reapplies her lipstick
going in | OAKFIELD MANSION
jane wears a mermaid outfit, serving on a plint in the pool
Jan 5, 2015 · That’s not the case with Jane The Virgin, which comes bursting out the gate with an immensely confident and powerful pilot that has served as the blueprint for all future episodes.
- Oliver Sava
Oct 15, 2014 · The CW’s new show Jane the Virgin is shaping up to be one of the best shows of the fall. I’m hooked on this corny–but not too corny–wacky and lovable story about Jane Villanueva, a girl who was artificially inseminated.
Oct 14, 2014 · Immaculate conceptions aren't all Mother Mary cracked them up to be. Here's what else we took away from The CW's 'Jane the Virgin' premiere last night.
- Olivia Armstrong
Oct 13, 2014 · Season 1. Ep 1. Chapter One (Pilot) TV-14. October 13, 2014. 40 min. 7.8 (856) As a devout Catholic, Jane Villanueva has everything planned out for her life: she aims to stay true to her Virginity pledge, work hard, and eventually get married to her sweetheart, Michael.
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Oct 7, 2014 · Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez) is a driven young woman studying to become a teacher, nursing a dream to be a writer, and supporting herself with a job at a hot new Miami hotel.
