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Call the Midwife continued...

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AnneEyhtMeyer · 04/03/2016 17:28

Just saw we were dangerously close to filling the last thread so have taken the liberty as starting this one.

Ah yes, Christopher Plummer as the Captain does things to me too.

Ida - Those pictures are amazing! He looks better out of his dog collar!

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IAmAPaleontologist · 07/03/2016 19:59

Nurse Crane is fabulous, I adore her from her dirty weekend to her (I paraphrase as I can't quite remember) "fetch me nurse Mount, she's a whizz with a rolodex and she stays calm in a crisis"

seasidesally · 07/03/2016 20:19

Sister E was my favourite and loved her wit

they should of made a best bits of Sister E at the end, i loved her one liners

Degustibusnonestdisputandem · 07/03/2016 20:38

Another member of the nurse Crane appreciation society here! Grin

Pebble21uk · 07/03/2016 20:50

I love Nurse Crane... I love Linda Bassett...I think she's one of our most underrated national treasures...

But have you thought about the acronym this?

N-CRAPS!

TheMightyMing · 07/03/2016 20:56

Nurse crane is ace! I loved her in in East is East as well. I also love the lady who runs the drapers , is she called Annabelle Apsion, she used to be in soldier soldier. They must have padded her up, as Im sure she isn't usually that 'matronly'.

I'm so going to miss it. I only got into it this series and it's easily the best thing on tv.

Hopelass · 07/03/2016 20:57

Caught up with the last episode this morning. So so sad. I couldn't stop crying! Will blame early pregnancy hormones. Loved sister Evangelina and still love sister Monica Joan she is a superstar. Nurse Crane is becoming a fast favourite of mine.
Now filling the void binge watching from series 2 onwards on Netflix. Didn't want to start at the very beginning as not a great fan of the J Worth actress.

LittleRedSparke · 07/03/2016 20:59

Was I the only one underwhelmed by the death? Yeah it was sad, but not shocking

MrsJayy · 07/03/2016 21:08

Oh n craps maybe not Grin

MrsJayy · 07/03/2016 21:14

She was also in shameless she was shapely in that but yes there is some padding as well

MrsJayy · 07/03/2016 21:16

I love when they go to her shop for their brassiers and monthlys

MrsJayy · 07/03/2016 21:18

Brassieres

rivierliedje · 07/03/2016 21:24

I love that too mrsjayy, also that list of things the mother-in-law to be went in to the shop for. And all the talk of foundation garments (bad australian ones, a wild goose chase to find them etc)

MrsJayy · 07/03/2016 21:42

My nan wore foundation garments her Bras had 6 hooks her busom was going nowhere

flamingnoravera · 07/03/2016 22:49

I was born in 1962. I knew many children in my year and the year above who were affected by thalidomide. CTM have tried hard to handle it sensitively but it has had me in floods of tears to remember those friends I had at school and the daily battles they fought to get on with their lives.

I honestly had no knowledge that those not prescribed the drug directly were denied compensation, that is adding insult to injury.

I am glad that Sundays will be free of tears for a few months. RIP sr E.

MrsJayy · 07/03/2016 22:54

What is going in the slot anything good ?

IdaJones · 07/03/2016 22:58

There's a new Julian fellowes drama Dr Thorne. Not sure if it's the same time though. www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-03-06/doctor-thorne-is-ideal-sunday-night-period-drama--froth-peppered-with-darkness

MrsJayy · 07/03/2016 23:00

Oh might be worth a watch although i think I am the only person in the world who didnt like downton

Alfieisnoisy · 07/03/2016 23:01

The Nurse Crane appreciation club...lovely idea. Count me in :-)

KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes · 08/03/2016 08:33

I didn't like Downton. Nothing happened. Was just people walking about...

ppeatfruit · 08/03/2016 09:51

Oh I liked Downton, lovely costumes, houses, etc. it got a bit soapy and depressing for me though.

morningtoncrescent62 · 08/03/2016 10:00

Just caught up on this thread - I watched the final episode last night having managed to miss any and all talk of someone dying. So it was a bit of a shock, though when Sr E sat in the chair after she got back from the birth I could see what was about to happen. Sad because I loved Sr E but I agree with whoever said upthread that it was a good death, and getting old and frail wouldn't have suited her.

The announcements as the closing music was playing really annoyed me. I wanted to sob quietly, not be jolted by a jolly voice telling me when the Christmas episode was due. C'mon, Beeb, show some sensitivity!

I felt desperately sad for the bereaved mother in the cafe. What a terrible thing to go through. I'm a year or two younger than the babies affected by thalidomide, and I remember various fundraising drives for 'the thalidomide children' as they were called when I was growing up. I didn't know any because where I lived they were usually shut away in homes and special residential schools. I think Blue Peter (or perhaps its ITV counterpart Magpie) might have run features on them, because I definitely knew about them. I thought the Turners came across as appropriately devastated - what must it have felt like to know you'd played a part, even completely inadvertently, in the unfolding tragedy? There seemed to be a real mix of emotions as they learned more about it - the initial shock, anger at the possibility of some conspiracy, powerlessness and frustration when they couldn't get more information, guilt and shame at their own role, and the urgency to do something straight away to prevent any more women taking the drug. I thought it was some of the best acting this series from them.

Loving Patsy standing up for Delia. Had D already written to ask her mum for her birth certificate? I couldn't remember, and I was a bit puzzled when she had it in her handbag as though she carried it around with her all the time.

Fontella · 08/03/2016 10:13

I liked Downton by I don't think it's a patch on Call the Midwife. All those wooden performances compared to the real heart wrenching ones on CTM. There was a moment in that last episode when Trixie was standing on the steps with all the others as the hearse was waiting to move off - completely in the background - and she was in bits. The chin was going, the tears were flowing, her face was utterly bereft - and she wasn't even properly in shot. It's that kind of thing that is so impressive in CTM when everyone, regardless of whether they are the focus of that particular scene or not, still gives it 100%.

I'm such a fan! Just real must-see telly for me and probably one of my all-time favourite series.

Alisvolatpropiis · 08/03/2016 10:15

Downton was just wildly unrealistic wasn't it. Upstairs being so nice to downstairs, the aristos taking advice from the servants etc.

Housewife2010 · 08/03/2016 10:24

Does anyone remember or has recently seen the last episode of the third series when Jenny left? The voiceover Jenny talked about things in the future and I'm sure Tom and Trixie got married. Can anyone else remember?

ppeatfruit · 08/03/2016 10:34

Alisvolat Not wildly unrealistic, there were households like that (JF based it all on facts) and I saw a programme about servants where there were nice portraits and histories of the servants in the grand house where they worked.

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