Call the midwife

[QuestionableMouse]

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.

@GreenClock

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...

Apparently some programs have been using households as extras, so they don’t have to be socially distanced

I think they need to tone down with the backing music as it's an over kill.

I do wonder when Sybil and Lucille are going to get engaged (I was definitely expecting it this episode).

Shame that Valerie has left as the main cast is looking quite sparse.

SMJ story I think was the best one this episode - The whole time I was wanting to shout 'just take the poor lady home!" as there's no way it would be ethical to operate on someone with advanced dementia/elderly.

CTM is getting worse through the year but this Xmas special wasn't as bad as the Scotland/South Africa one.

I preferred it in the 1950s when Jenny Lee was the main character and it was all a bit gritty. I think the writers are running out of ideas.

Jennifer Worth wrote: "In the late 1950s we had 80 to 100 deliveries a month on our books. In 1963, the number had dropped to four or five a month. Now that is some social change.”

And by 1976 when the sisters moved to Birmingham, they were working mainly with the homeless I think I read.

I teared up when Gloria was in labour and Shelagh asked her to talk about the Babies she'd lost. Absolutely balled my eyes out when she mentioned their names after and told her she'd being a mother a long time. Apart from my OH no one even acknowledged my angel Babies