The brain isn't an exact science

April 2, 2019 8:36 AM

The fifth (and final) season premiere of Jane the Virgin featured a huge revelation:

Jane's husband Michael (who died in Season Three but was revealed to still be alive in the finale of Season Four) has amnesia and doesn't recognize her. After finding out the news, Jane gave a seven-minute monologue about time, memory, and marriage. The scene is all the more remarkable when you realize that Gina Rodriguez, who plays Jane, directed the episode as well, and learned it in "about an hour and a half".

posted by Etrigan (7 comments total)

Mod note: Edited to put the spoilers below the fold.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 8:37 AM on April 2, 2019 [2 favorites]

It was an incredible scene!
posted by schwinggg! at 9:02 AM on April 2, 2019

spoilers show up in the rss feed, btw
posted by scruss at 11:21 AM on April 2, 2019

[Sorry; the feed has whole posts, so people using RSS take their chances.]
posted by LobsterMitten at 11:44 AM on April 2, 2019

Mod note: Comment removed; if you want to share a transcript of the monologue, that's cool but please put it somewhere and link to it vs. just posting the whole thing in-thread.
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:57 PM on April 2, 2019

I nth that her performance was amazing (already mentioned on FanFare).

I do wonder how well the amnesia techniques would work on someone IRL. That sounds horrifying.
posted by jenfullmoon at 6:21 PM on April 2, 2019

I've been thinking about this wonderful monologue for days. Then I saw this comic(SMBC), and I liked how they go together.
posted by es_de_bah at 12:08 PM on April 8, 2019