...or is there really no chemistry between Dr Turner and Sheila on Call the Midwife?

[tinyshinyanddon]

I don't normally notice these things...is it just me?

[nolongerbumpieorlumpie]

Insomnia hitting you hard?!! I often thought that though!!

[Canus]

Isn't Dr Turner played by one of the McGanns?

You'd probably find there was more chemistry if they cast a tree in the part. I can't understand how any of those brothers were ever given any acting jobs at all.

[LadyCybilCrawley]

I've always though their love was more cerebral and about admiration and respect -- back then given the no sex before marriage thing (not that it didn't happen - just not as accepted as today) I think more marriages were based on respect and duty and romantic "notions" than chemistry and passion

[steff13]

There really isn't. I like both characters separately, and I don't mind them together, but they're not very interesting. IMDB spells her name "Shelagh.". I've never seen it spelled that way. Irish?

[LadyCybilCrawley]

Or least entered into on that basis and then reality came later

[ShelaghTurner]

You are so so wrong!

[ShelaghTurner]

Scottish Steff

[NurseyWursey]

lady has hit it. It isn't supposed to be a steamy romance.

[FrigginRexManningDay]

Sile in Irish, Shelagh would be Scottish.

They annoy me too. I liked them as separate characters but together its all very droll and dull.

[RedFocus]

Thing is not every couple oozes passion and sexual tension in real life.
Even before they got together it was just coy looks and sweet smiles. They just aren't that sort of couple.

[Ktay]

Canus - this McGann bro is coincidentally married to the producer...

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

None whatsoever. Also McGann is about as sexy as a wet dishcloth. He came across as quite a good character early on, but my theory is he's done something terrible to piss off his (real life) wife and she's taking it out on his acting career.

[Faver0lles]

They're both too simpering and gentle, which makes them a tad boring to watch.

[jaynebxl]

My least favourite bit of the show is anything that involves this couple. All a bit too siclly sweet and terribly polite. Def no chemistry.

[CuttedUpPear]

Yes the icily polite atmosphere just kills it.
It had more simmering sexuality when Shelagh was still in a wimple.

And while we're on the subject, why have I gone off Jenny?
She's not a patch on Trixie.

[BadgersNadgers]

Jenny and Shelagh have timeshare on a stick up their arse, can't stand either of them. I like the new girl who is possibly a lesbian.

[CuttedUpPear]

Ooh yes Patsy is great. And she really reminds me of someone, I can't think who.

[thebodydoestricks]

Yes agree they remind me of the spitting image puppets of john and Norma major, more peas john? (old)
You just can't see them dtd. She still looks like a bloody nun.


jenny is like a head girl. Yeuk, Trixy and the nuns far more interesting.

[limitedperiodonly]

Thing is not every couple oozes passion and sexual tension in real life.

People like that are just trying too hard.

[thebodydoestricks]

We'll get the real life thing and trying too hard but this isn't RL it's a drama.

If I wanted RL I would just expect them to watch them bicker, fart and go to the bog.

I hate call the midwife now anyway.

Just do over the blood, screaming and pushing.

It's not family tv is it really.

[pebblyshit]

I think he's a bit of a knob. He has a really grating, patronisingly benevolent smile.

[squoosh]

They smile too much. Never trust a couple who smile brightly at each other all the time.

And her voice is irritatingly tremulous.

I've said it before but I'll say it again, death was a lucky escape for Jenny's young man.

[ShelaghTurner]

I admit he has been a bit of a sod this series, definitely not as likeable as he was previously (IMO!) but you have to cut Shelagh some slack. She's spent all of her adult life as a nun and now suddenly she's thrown out into the big wide world. She doesn't know where she fits in. She's not a contemporary of the nurses or the nuns and although she's slowly making friends she doesn't have any other female company to speak of, no one to tell her how to be.

Plus her marriage isn't the sweetness and light that she possibly thought it would be. In addition, finding that she could not have the children that she desperately wanted was a huge blow.

I accept that I have possibly invested too much in this series

However, what really pissed me off was seeing her stuck behind that bloody hatch all series. I appreciate that it's a different time but she's an experienced midwife and nurse ffs. She shouldn't be scrabbling around trying to find things to fill her day.

[steff13]

I like the new girl who is possibly a lesbian.

I thought they were hinting at the new character being a lesbian, too. I like her a lot.

Dr. Turner's real-life brother is Paul McGann, right? I liked him on Luther.

[tinyshinyanddon]

Lady Yes I get that it was a different era and things were more restrained but as thebody points out, it's a TV show and I was referring to the actors not having any chemistry. Someone else pointed out it is all smiles and politeness. I hoped it would be a great storyline when she was still wimpled-up but now it has lost something. That beatific smile she breaks out at the end of every scene gives me the rage.