Call The Midwife

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Surprised there's no thread on this. Did anyone watch it last night or has the series reached its natural end and is no longer attracting viewers?

I quite enjoyed it. I liked them focusing on the nun side of things. But the mother house didn't feel right, it's never been mentioned in previous episodes that they have an orphanage as their charism is midwifery. Thought the casting for Mother Jesu was wrong. In the early series she's a much younger woman.

Thought the brother and sister added nothing to the story. Predicted that the Turners would take May home.

Thanks Missing..not quite sure air kissing is the same but could be. I agree that the originals were wonderful..Jennifer Worth's philosophy and courage was clear.

Is there a way to rewatch the original series?

Original series is on Netflix.

I enjoyed it, but I definitely think the series is in danger of being dragged on too long. Trixie is starting to look really out of place. She's no longer a young nurse sharing a room with other young nurses and having a great time going to parties and dances.

She's a woman approaching middle age, who looks a bit 'left behind'. Jenny, Chummy, Cynthia and Patsy have all moved on, Barbara is dead and Tom has left, but she's still living with the nuns, sharing a room etc. while at the same time we're supposed to see her as this very sophisticated, modern woman. I hope they give her some kind of storyline this series that shows her life progressing in some kind of positive way - not necessarily meeting Mr Right, but just not caught up in the same old same old life that no longer seems realistic for her.

I quite enjoyed it

Had a few tears

The air kissing is called "the holy kiss" across several religions. One or both cheeks acceptable

www.google.com/amp/s/www.compellingtruth.org/amp/holy-kiss.html

It’s all very saccharine. I preferred the 1950s series that were actually based on the book.

Thought the woman who had come back from Australia was very well dressed for someone who was meant to be poor - and she had a car! Such a vague storyline, she got married, her husband died so she came back to the UK?

I agree about Trixie. She seems too old and glamorous to be a young midwife in her Chanel dresses and heels. They all seem very well dressed and groomed out of uniform considering they would have been badly paid.

At one point in a previous series Trixie was progressing in her career and looking at advancing her skills. I know Helen George needed to be written out last year due to pregnancy, but they would have been better saying that Trixie had gone to work in another hospital to increase her skillset. The alcohol relapse and trip to Europe was too predictable. I agree that it's just not believable Trixie would still be living with the nuns in her 30s.

How old is Trixie meant to be now?
How much time has passed since the start of the series?

Thought the woman who had come back from Australia was very well dressed for someone who was meant to be poor - and she had a car! Such a vague storyline, she got married, her husband died so she came back to the UK?

I thought her husband had died but left her money so she bought her passage back? Maybe there was enough for a car & lodgings.

It was a bit saccharine though.

I don't understand why nurse crane is still only a nurse. She'd have been a sister and, like Tricia not sharing a room. I always thought the Phylis/Barbra friendship wasn't really that close.

@Akire which channel was the Queen and I on?

Trixie and Fred Buckle need writing out IMO. A nasty accident would do them nicely.

With all the mums going to hospital idea, you could see the start of the end of homebirth and therefore the nuns as they lived.

The woman who had the baby outside a telephone box, reminded me of Adele for some reason.

I agree the show has become like a parody of itself now.

When the Vanessa Redgrave narrator comes on at the end and says some bollocky twee shite which has nothing to do with anything, like: “love always finds a way, our friends are our family, the truest feeling is joy.” I always end up getting the giggles now, if you listen to her she’s talking such gibberish.

And there was the Teal Prevalence again.

Dr Turner and Shelagh remain unbearable. And the discussion about the need for Chinese babies to be raised in Chinese homes was anachronistic in the extreme.

The real Trixie is no longer the Helen George character. They've built her a story.
I knew and worked with the real Trixie (or at least tte lady she was based upon)) and she certainly was not an alcoholic.
It's now basiy a soap.

My own peeve is how posh most of the midwives are, despite the series being set in Poplar. Even the actress who plays Cor Blimey Val sounds quite posh in real life. It saddens me, because it seems that an increasing number of actors are from public school backgrounds, and there aren't as many opportunities for talented working class youngsters these days.

I think that bit is quite realistic though, or was for the original characters. Jennifer Worth is quite clear about what a shock she had when she started work at the poverty she encountered, and the other midwives were also from privileged backgrounds. Many nurses and midwives were.

I agree that it's tie for Fred, Violet and Reggie to be written out.

Agree - Violet, Fred & Reggie are just the 'comic relief' these days. They could win the pools and retire to the seaside.

Now, I like Fred, Vi and Reggie. Would much sooner get rid of the Turners but I'm guessing they're not shifting.
I'd quite like Tom to return and get back together with Trixie.... now she's not drinking and has grown up a bit it could work.