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Call the midwife

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QuestionableMouse · 25/12/2020 21:34

Anyone else finding it swinging wildly between terribly twee and overly bleak?

I normally really enjoy it but this year's isn't doing anything for me.

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Northernsoullover · 25/12/2020 21:35

I still love it. Its the nostalgia more than the story lines I like.

Birdladybird · 25/12/2020 21:36

I still love it 🥰

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QuestionableMouse · 25/12/2020 21:36

Okay the part with Phyllis on the trapeeze was brilliant.

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gamerchick · 25/12/2020 21:37

A SD call the midwife Grin they did really well considering. Clever stuff.

PathOfLeastResitance · 25/12/2020 21:37

I just love it all. The fashion, the retro settings, the babies, the emotions. All of it.

Pieceofpurplesky · 25/12/2020 21:40

It was just nostalgic, sentimental TV and a bit of Christmas normality. I loved it

GirlCrush · 25/12/2020 22:01

I didn’t rate it at all this year,boring

AndAllOurYesterdays · 25/12/2020 22:06

It was boring. And it didn't feel very Christmassy. Still, better than the year they went to Africa.

GreenClock · 25/12/2020 22:11

I thought it was the weakest Christmas special so far but they did extremely well with the social distancing - it didn’t look odd at all (with the possible exception of when Me Percival visited his daughter in hospital and sat six feet away). I noticed that the extras in the pub were not distanced - perhaps that scene was filmed in Feb/March, or maybe it was clever filming. Reggie holding the two children’s hands too...

Optimistlestoe1 · 25/12/2020 22:21

I loved the celebration Phyllis and Millicent had together - so warm and friendly; and their food choices mirroring their personalities perfectly. The Harvey Wallbanger was a surprise, though!

Ritascornershop · 25/12/2020 22:28

I could almost watch it with the sound off as for me a lot of it is enjoying the amazing art direction & costumes. Those departments excell.

justgeton · 25/12/2020 22:35

I had forgotten it was all sd and didn't remember till I read this thread. So well done ctm.

It was ok, easy watching. I'll always be a fan

MrsKingfisher · 25/12/2020 22:40

Absolute shite, dh and I were saying the writer must really dislike her husband, twee doesn't come close, him and his onscreen wife are usually vomit inducing but this was another level!

OhYouBadBadKitten · 25/12/2020 22:43

I really enjoyed it. A little bit of normality.

BikeRunSki · 25/12/2020 22:47

@gamerchick

A SD call the midwife Grin they did really well considering. Clever stuff.
I totally agree. I wouldn't have noticed the SD in other circumstances.

I still love it. Twee, bleak, nostalgic, love it.

KILNAMATRA · 25/12/2020 22:50

Watch the diddy y tv version.. it put an end to the real one for me🤣

jessstan1 · 25/12/2020 23:23

It is the Christmas special so it is bound to have some sentimentality. I found it to be a good balance between that, absolute magic and business as usual. It seemed just right for Christmas, loved it.

I'm dying to know how Nonnatus is going to expand in the next series.

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QuestionableMouse · 25/12/2020 23:36

@Optimistlestoe1

I loved the celebration Phyllis and Millicent had together - so warm and friendly; and their food choices mirroring their personalities perfectly. The Harvey Wallbanger was a surprise, though!
That was a fantastic scene. 😁
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JamieLeesCurtains · 25/12/2020 23:46

I don't like circuses 😱

Not even to see Nurse Crane's splendid pins.

Holothane · 25/12/2020 23:52

The Africa just didn’t work for me I like a proper Christmas special, not my favourite but ok,.

sueelleker · 25/12/2020 23:52

I'm dying to know how Nonnatus is going to expand in the next series.
I don't think the script-writers have worked that out yet!

MissEliza · 26/12/2020 00:11

Is Helen George pregnant again?

jessstan1 · 26/12/2020 00:45

@JamieLeesCurtains

I don't like circuses 😱

Not even to see Nurse Crane's splendid pins.

I too don't like circuses, certainly not as they were in those days but this one was small with no lion, bear or elephant which were the animals most ill treated.

It was quite nice to see Dr Who as the ringmaster.

I cried when Gloria had her baby daughter and Shelagh told her she had been a mother for a long time.

Sister Monica Joan in hospital and catheterised was horrible and it was marvellous that she was liberated (I did wonder if Sister Francis was going to have to stand up holding the TV aerial until the next series).

Lovely, can't wait to learn about the expansion promised by Sister Julienne.

jay55 · 26/12/2020 09:19

I hated the grim bits, just didn't want those this year. The dating especially did my head in more than the lung cancer.

But Phylis did save the day with the circus and with Millicent. And now I want her to do Strictly.

CherryValanc · 26/12/2020 12:07

I've just watched it. Didn't mind it, but I guess that were very restricted in what they could achieve with stories.

They did SD well, all close to each other scenes seemed to involved gloves, or gloves and masks. The angles made most scences look less SD far apart.

Though the touching hands done as a single shot cracked me up more than it should have.