Here’s How Jane The Virgin Re-wrote The Guidebook For The TV Narrator

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It’s been a hot minute since the final season (5) of Jane the Virgin was released on the CW and we’re still a buzz over the ground the role of The Narrator in this series broke in redefining TV narration.

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If you haven’t caught it yet and have been tiptoeing around the frenzy of fan speculation about the identity of The Narrator, then go watch, and come back once you’re in the loop.

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Spoiler alert for Jane the Virgin, Gossip Girl, and How I Met Your Mother. Watch out...

Here it comes: Mateo is the Narrator. There, it’s spoiled.

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With that out the way, Anthony Mendez, who is the voice of The Narrator in Jane the Virgin became not only one of the most popular TV narrators in recent years but one of the show’s absolute darlings.

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Described as “the best character on Jane the Virgin,” the Narrator went from being a quirky background role to carrying as much series weight and import as the title character, Jane Villanueva.

Jane’s narrator takes everything characteristic of Ron Howard’s folksy, snarky, ahead-of-its-time Arrested Development narration and imbues it with the heightened melodrama and over-the-top sensuality of the telenovela genre.

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