'Jane The Virgin' Season 2 Spoilers: EP Opens Up About Jane's Missing Baby, Xo and Rogelio's Relationship
The Season 1 finale of "Jane the Virgin" ended with a load of major cliffhangers that will keep fans in suspense until October.
The season-long buildup to the delivery of Jane's baby came to an end when she gave birth to a healthy baby boy named Mateo. However, just when she was relishing in the moment of motherhood, her newborn baby was kidnapped by Sin Rostro.
Meanwhile, Petra took Rafael's swimmers home from the fertility clinic, while it was discovered that Jane's parents, Xo and Rogelio, eloped while they were drunk in Last Vegas.
Fortunately for fans, executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman has opened up about what's to come in Season 2, dropping spoilers about Jane's missing baby, what type of mom she will be and the obstacles that Xo and Rogelio will face in their relationship.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Urman revealed that the show's writers purposely ended Season 1 with an over-the-top cliffhanger that will leave fans wanting more.
"We knew we just wanted to end it with something dramatic and something that gave a nod to its telenovela roots, and we felt that was a very telenovela turn of events. Also, we're going off the air from May till I think October, so you want something that the audience really, really wants to go back for and has stakes in. Also, the sense of, 'Oh my God!' -- [in] network TV, you need that. It's not like binging, where everything is available all at once and you can watch at your leisure. We've got to bring people back wanting to know something and we wanted something that would also affect a lot of characters at once," she explained.
As far as the storyline around Jane's stolen baby goes, the showrunner reassured viewers, "Things are going to be OK," and the baby will be returned to her safely.
"The missing baby is an early development but they get the baby back. We're a comedy, so Jane will be able to laugh once she gets the baby back," she said. "She gets the baby back pretty quickly, but it sets other things in motion, what happened in that last scene. That is all part of the DNA of the second season."
However, viewers will see how losing a newborn right after giving birth affects Jane as a mother.
"Those are all the things we're going to explore," Urman said.
"There's going to be practical [issues], like she's going to be pumping for a baby she doesn't have. There are going to be a lot of dramatic things that are going to come out of it. Also, it's obviously going to make her so overprotective and it's going to make her take some surprising steps because she doesn't want this to ever, ever happen in her world ever again. The nerves of new motherhood are amplified to the hundredth degree when she gets that baby back. And also, her resolve is going to be strengthened because you want Jane to come out stronger in some way and a little toughened after this has happened. It's going to make everything as we go along a little more fraught. When does she let Rafael have the baby by himself for the first time? Can she let go? How does she balance wanting to do something on her own with this tremendous guilt about leaving the baby and fear and all of this stuff? That's all going to play a part in our second season."
Urman also hinted that Sin Rostro kidnapped the baby because she is looking for something in return.
"Sin Rostro wants to trade the baby for something, and she wants leverage, and that's what she's getting with the baby," she said.
When asked if Petra will use Rafael's sperm to impregnate herself, Urman told Yahoo!, "I would say it's certainly possible. And that's going to be a big part of [Petra's] arc at the beginning. She's going to make a surprising decision."
In addition to being married, Rogelio and Xo will face new challenges when Rogelio's ex-wife comes to town.
"We're also going to be introducing Rogelio's first wife into the equation, who ... cheated on him and was his first true love," the showrunner said. "That's going to complicate things. She's a beautiful, beautiful hoarder, so she will come and complicate their lives, and Xo has her own complications. The course of the second season will include some definitive moves on their relationship."
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