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Call The Midwife

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Homethroughthepuddles · 26/12/2018 11:51

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?

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Clawdy · 27/12/2018 20:46

What really annoyed me was that silly obviously fake snow fluttering all over the Poplar scenes! Then the scenes at the Mother House looked like summer, which is probably when they were filmed.......

Toddlerteaplease · 27/12/2018 20:56

I did wonder if the reason it seemed so blue was because it had been fined on a very JT day and they were trying to make it look cold.

Toddlerteaplease · 27/12/2018 22:47

*very hot!

Cattenberg · 27/12/2018 23:21

Isitmybathyet, fair enough, I didn't know that.

I think the Christmas special is filmed in summer, yes.

ChesterGreySideboard · 27/12/2018 23:28

Can you imagine being there in the heat we had this summer wrapped up in wool jumpers and fur coats?

Applesandpears23 · 27/12/2018 23:47

I read that the mother house was filmed in the April heatwave. The scene right at the end made me laugh. If the nuns had really come home on Christmas Eve and found their chapel full of those people from the other church with their very different style of worship would that really have been great?

RoseMartha · 28/12/2018 07:51

I quite liked the episode. It will not be the same since Barbara died as she was my favourite character.
Not a big fan of the Turners not sure why.
Trixie i think needs the support of being at Nonnatus. I dont want to see her get back with Tom. Would certainly stop watching if that happened.
Sad Sister Winifred has left.
Everyone else in it is ok, but it does need more nuns.

Toddlerteaplease · 28/12/2018 09:53

@Applesandpears23 I agree. I doubt they'd have been that enthusiastic. They would not have been as ecumenical as we are now. Hence Sr Monica Jones refusal to go to the Jamaican church. Can't remember the characters name!

BestIsWest · 28/12/2018 20:20

The first series was set in 1957 and shown in 2012. This was 1963 - it will always be 55 years ago so isn’t getting closer to us.

youarenotkiddingme · 28/12/2018 20:35

There was reference in an earlier series of 2 children being shipped to Australia and their new born brother was adopted. (Not same family).

I like call the midwife. I got into it late and so have I MH recently caught the earlier episodes.

But I know what everyone means about it lacking 'something'.

Did love Fred and the donkey though!

SOSHelp · 28/12/2018 20:46

I've heard the new series is starting January 20th

MissEliza · 29/12/2018 00:09

It isn't getting closer to us. Speak for yourself! I was born in the early 70s when hospital births had become the norm. If CTM wants to continue, it needs to find a way to accommodate historical facts.

legolimb · 29/12/2018 00:14

Adele was in it?

Defender90 · 29/12/2018 00:21

Was really disappointed with the Christmas one, just got it on catch up.

Nothing like the Series.

brizzledrizzle · 29/12/2018 00:38

I was born in the first half of the sixties so it's getting very close. I didn't enjoy it as much.

ChesterGreySideboard · 29/12/2018 08:20

it will always be 55 years ago so isn’t getting closer to us.

It’s not going to get closer to present day, but it is going to get closer to times we remember.

MargotLovedTom1 · 29/12/2018 08:42

It's definitely gone off the boil; I miss Patsy, Sr Evangeline and Barbara. Lucille is an empty vessel and Valerie irritates me immensely with her constant 'Awww' smile in every fecking scene. There's no light and shade to them. At least Nurse Crane's still there to cut through the simpering. I did shed a small tear at the bit with her, Trixie and the cardigan.

youarenotkiddingme · 29/12/2018 08:46

It's covered some excellent social angles in the past.

Abortion, thalidomide (deformity and disability) and homosexuality to name a few.
However the laws had changed or been adapted at the end of the episodes so I think there's becoming less storylines to create iyswim.

So he's, whimsy CTM will always be 50. odd years behind us in terms of the timescale - in terms of the social society we know and understand it's becoming more what we know and accept nowadays.

They even covered an episode where one of the nuns went and assisted in a struggling hospital for a week and they highlighted the difference between home and hospital care - both positive and negative.

GinIsIn · 29/12/2018 09:03

I found it all a bit meh. It was too much about nuns and not enough about the people of Poplar, and the community has always been the real main character so it felt very lacking.

The Turners need more Timothy - he stops them being overly saccharine, but the actor who plays him was mid-a level exams and couldn’t film, which is why he’s only in 1 scene and then they used a body double for a couple of others. The family isn’t as annoying when he’s there.

Also if Trixie was born when her dad had just got back from the first war, she should be nearly 40 but I think she’s supposed to be about 30?

RandomlyChosenName · 29/12/2018 09:05

I liked the Christmas episode. It was gentle and not distressing. I dont like dramatic programmes on Christmas Day. I’m still disturbed by Downton Abbey...

BestIsWest · 29/12/2018 09:29

I was born in 1963 (in hospital) so find it fascinating. However had flu on Christmas Day so dozed through this episode. Will have to watch on catchup.

youarenotkiddingme · 29/12/2018 09:33

The first war ended in 1918. So she's be 45 ish if it's 1963 now?
That doesn't make sense as she was a new nurse when series started in late 50's and she'd have been late 40's then?

Even if it after 2nd ww she's be too young to be a nurse Confused (clearly I'm missing something or mis interpreting something?!)

RedForShort · 29/12/2018 09:57

Outside shots must be a right pain if it's supposed to be Christmas. Weather is wrong, plants blooming and trees in full leaf!

Rockbird · 29/12/2018 10:23

I was a mega fan of this show, then cooled off last year and didn't really watch it. Watched this though and really enjoyed it. I liked the focus on the nuns, there were complaints in the past that the nuns were getting sidelined. And Miriam Margolyes and Fenella Woolgar are both fab. Hope they feature lots in the upcoming series.

Oh and I still love the Turners...except Patrick who's a knob Wink

Polarbearflavour · 29/12/2018 10:43

DeloresJaneUmbridge - you worked with the lady Trixie is based on? I’m intrigued!

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