Call the Midwife.

[Toddlerteaplease]

What is going on with Mother Mildreds make up?

Cause explaining to her that she was ill and had been left all alone and suffering, made it sink in to him that he left her all alone when she was ill and suffering? Or at least that's how I saw it

I think it was that plus they wanted him to give her the necessary push to have the surgery.

It was good tonight though, I loved it. Phyllis is still a dream.

This episode really irritated me for some reason. The translation thing made no sense as she already knew English, the amount of teal is as always unbelievable and agree the storylines about the other women eg the adopted mother, the lift breaking down did seem like time fillers really. Plus the annoying doctor. Agh maybe I've just reached the end with CTM!

you know what, that placenta never got delivered and she'd been given syntometrine

I think it was to get the husband to help her and to understand she wasn't dirty knowing and understanding another language could be too different things so I don't think it was that irritating, although DR T talking to Mrs mohammed like she was stupid was annoying.

Purpose was amazing in this episode. I hope there is a proposal soon.

Did people really speak in that clipped way all the time in the 50s? It's so twee and polite.

StillWeRise it doesn,t always happen straight away. Perhaps it happened after she got ot the lift. We knew the father spoke some English as it was mentioned in a previouse episode. The Das English we are led to believe is better then the mothers. (And also she does not want to engage so hope the father can persuade her.) And it,s now 1960,s.

ssd Sun 19-Jan-20 22:58:53
Did people really speak in that clipped way all the time in the 50s? It's so twee and polite.
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This series is well into the sixties now but you may be talking about earlier series. I was a child in the 1950s and sixties until I became a teenager, I have a good memory so a lot is familiar to me but though I was in London, I never lived anywhere like Poplar. The way the people talk seems normal to me but you hear all sorts of speech patterns, accents and none in London.

explaining to her that she was ill and had been left all alone and suffering, made it sink in to him that he left her all alone when she was ill and suffering?

That's how I understood it too. You could see the dawning realisation on his face.

But people like Trixie andDr turner didn't originate from theeastend Dr would have been university educated mixing with "posh people" and trixie too although her accent does seem a bit old fashioned for 1964 .

Old-fashioned for 1964 but isn't she in her 30s by now? In which case she'd a pre-WW2 baby (possibly not much younger than the Queen?).

It wasn’t the dark ages no but she still lives with them and they are her employer (almost).

The translation think kind of makes sense 1. As a vehicle for making the husband understand 2. Because the women was so upset she couldn’t/wouldn’t understand English. It was poorly explained though.

Old-fashioned for 1964 but isn't she in her 30s by now? In which case she'd a pre-WW2 baby (possibly not much younger than the Queen?).

Very true

My mother's age then, I can't imagine any employer of hers telling her what to do. It's high time Trixie moved out and got her own place though instead of sharing a room with two other women.

I had higher hopes that CTM would be back on track after last week's episode, but it was back to being annoying tonight!

Trite endings where everything is just fine in the end - both the birth in the lift and more significantly the mother's reaction to Lucille. Whenever they briefly touch on racism (and it has been briefly), the racist always has an epiphany by the end of the episode and suddenly is racist no more.
The whole translation thing was ridiculous - and meant we had to sit through the entire conversation twice! I kept glancing at the clock thinking 'surely this has been on for an hour now'
And it's still all centering around Dr Can't Act His Way Out Of a Paper Bag.
Only reason to watch is Phyllis and I would love them to make more use of Fenella Woolgar (so underused I can't even recall her character's name!!!)

I may be in a minority of one, but I don't have any problem with Dr Turner. It's a long way from being Dr Turner's Casebook.

The woman in the lift didn't bother me so much either - though I accept i may be being biased now too. The way I saw it, her explanation made sense. I've been nasty to people in hospital as I felt trapped (admittedly not racism related, but then I'm not in the 60s), it doesn't necessarily mean she's "racist racist", maybe just picking up on what would have been something she knew would hurt Lucille?

I don't think he's a good actor like the others are. I find it distracting

The clothes and hairstyles still look more late fifties than sixties to me.

Apart from the mini skirts of course!

It’s not without its flaws, but by bringing birth injury consequences and women’s issue to the forefront of Sunday evening mainstream tv it’s pretty much out on its own. I’ll forgive it the hazy teal wash and Dr Wooden for that. Although why Phylis didn’t suggest examining the woman and feeding back to Dr in the first place, I don’t know. He’s hardly going to pull rank on her and dismiss her input, is he?
Interesting suggestion by Lucille to have continuous midwife care from hospital to community too.
Agree Fenella Woolgar is woefully underused at the moment.

I think the kind of mild racism shown in this was common and pretty much acceptable back in the early 60s. It seems to be a general dislike of "different" rather than a genuine hatred which wouldn't be sorted out by half a hour stuck in a lift.

I'm watching the Trial of Christine Keeler at the moment and some of the scripted comments in that really stunned me.

I don't think any other programme has ever shown birth injuries in quite such a graphic way as CTM did with the woman last night.