Teal, babies and death. Call The Midwife it’s Dr One Face

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Poor Barbara

Interestingly, reading the credits, young mum Josie's real name (actress) is Barbara Smith.

Spooky!

Soup - I'd say that promotional photo has been tweaked colour-wise as everyone looks super bright and lit, not the programme

The uniforms in the show are definitely teal fabric. All the other colours are correct (hair, skin) there's no way they could have altered a blue uniform to teal just by colouring on the programme without giving everyone an odd colour.

But we may agree to disagree

The uniforms in the show are definitely teal fabric. All the other colours are correct (hair, skin) there's no way they could have altered a blue uniform to teal just by colouring on the programme without giving everyone an odd colour.

No it’s the lighting. Everything had an orange tint in certain scenes.

My Monday catch up. I'm only at Angela's party and I want to murder most of them Tom is so wooden, MrsT is unfeeling, drT patronising. Continuing with this series multicultural theme even Angela's party was multicultural.

Well, I accept I’m wrong then Battleax/Soup

I'd say that promotional photo has been tweaked colour-wise as everyone looks super bright and lit, not the programme

So they can turn teal into blue without affecting faces but not blue into teal... interesting.

The colour and tint of everything in the episodes exactly resembles the colouring of 60s cine films (and I’ve seen a few! 😂). They’ve not done that with paint and fabric. Surely it’s far more likely to have been done digitally (or by using actual 60s cine film but that seems unlikely!)

They don’t even use film any more. It was definitely partly lighting (cinematography) also a certain amount of pancake make up and weird period textiles I’m going to have to watch more to be sure

How on earth did they have the time in their last minute putting together of the montage (which seemed to go from a celebration of sister MJ to a wedding video of Tom and Barbara) to contact Trixie, get her to be filmed and have the delicate film reel sent to them to be incorporated?

Also, Trixie was referred to as sunning herself, have they forgotten she isn't on holiday? And raising an alcoholic glass to her in her absence? Muppets.

The only good bit was Reggie and the carousel.

I repeat, as per the comment above your latest - I accept I'm wrong Soup.

Shall we just leave it now?

I thought that too, playing. New nurse who suggested raising a glass to trixie can be forgiven not knowing the exact reason for her compassionate leave. The others, not so much

Definitely he's on iPlayer!!

I thought the whole series was disappointing TBH. I used to really enjoy watching previous series, the hour would fly by....now it drags. It's just dull, they're running out of story lines and scraping the bottom of the barrel to find 'new' ones.

I miss the old characters - Sister Evangelina was great, Trixie, Patsy and Delia. And Chummy.

Valerie Dyer - dull, dull, dull

I quite liked Lucille for a while but she just seems to be about missing home, finding like-minded religious people and dealing with racism.

The Xmas special was disappointing this year. This series started off promising but it was really nothing special to write home about.

Also, Trixie was referred to as sunning herself, have they forgotten she isn't on holiday? And raising an alcoholic glass to her in her absence? Muppets.

Ah now, I have a feeling that Sister Julienne and Nurse Crane are the only ones who actually knew how bad she had ever been or she'd relapsed, and were keeping her confidence. Nurses Dyer and Anderson wouldn't have a clue about any of it, and Sister Winifred wouldn't have been kept in the loop either.

iPlayer subtitles are terrible though!

The "prize" bit was referring back to where Nurse Crane had said she was winning at going at it herself, and she asked what her prize would be.

Jesus the Turners even got in on Sister MJ's birthday cake. Shelagh damn near broke an ankle shoving Angela in to blow the candles out!

Angela’s birthday party seemed awfully late for such small children - it was dark outside!

It was November though - it's have been dark by after school.

Angela is cute. She's the best actor out of the Turners.

I'm sure people become rev once they're ordained and are a curate. They have to do that for 2 or 3 years before they become a vicar I think. But still a rev. Maybe the nun called him mr to show she was thinking of him in a neighbourly role rather than a church role.

I rather love Valerie.

I wondered the exact same thing about how quickly they'd got that film made. That sort of thing used to take forever. I know they did some time passing during the episode but it was still impressive work.

The job lot of babies at the end felt a bit silly.

Although Baby Barbara's mum was bloody rude to Phyllis at first, i ended up liking her sparkiness once she was getting on with Phyllis and thinking I'd like to see more of her.

I don’t miss Trixie at all - I’m always very conscious she is acting

I'm very fond of Trixie (the actor is a FOAF) and I think we're meant to think she's putting on a front most of the time. So yes, she's acting, but Trixie is acting.

Maybe she could become a friend to Phyllis. I also want Phyllis to get together with the policeman as i think their argumentative relationship would be amusing/entertaining.

I mean Baby Barbara's mum could become a friend of Phyllis

I've become used to Trixie now, but it still jars when she says "hart" and " garl" instead of "hurt" and "girl" , in that super-posh accent. Wonder if she speaks like that in real life?