Call the midwife anyone?

[OodKingWenceslas]

I can't fail to be surprised every time this is on at how much things have changed in 60isj years.

The boy thought he was in the way, as sister had previously married to god he thought he was exchanging himself for her! polio was gods way of bringing two people together.
Completely unrelated I live in chichester the motherhouse is now sitting empty! I wish I could have had a nun!

I was quite disappointed with the christmas episode.

Hopefully the new series will make up for it!

I thought it was dire. I've had mixed feelings about Call the Midwife in the past - it seems to veer uneasily between saccharine sentimentality and stark social realism - but I think in the past it's always been saved by the sense that it's telling real people's stories: the woman who has too many children and attempts an abortion, or the woman who has an affair and gives birth to a mixed-race baby. The Christmas episode wasn't just sentimental, it was clunky beyond belief. The street scenes never look remotely realistic, for example. And then there's the exposition: Sister Evangelista complains to the doctor about having to organise a mass polio vaccination, and so he explains to her that the reason is because there's a polio epidemic going on - something which she obviously already knows. It's as if they can't be bothered to do it properly.