Call the Midwife

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Is back 18th April. I'm so glad we are getting a series this year, I find it such great escapism.

Is anyone else a fan?

Sorry I’m an episode behind. First episode a baby passed, then second the mum died of non birth related problems albeit.

Ahh I forgot about the mum

Yes so far is 2/3 for death

It is actually 3/3.

Cyril’s dreams of getting down and sandy on the beach with Lucille died a death.

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

It is actually 3/3.

Cyril’s dreams of getting down and sandy on the beach with Lucille died a death.

Poor Cyril

I mean I know Lucille has her work and it’s very important but Cyril always seems to be rebuffed

And little Cyril is destined to be unbuffed.

Meh. It’s become Call Dr Turner.

Joining the club. My goodness this series is shit and it isn't just the social distancing.

What's with simpering Mrs T's amazing idea of hosting pupils? They've had pupils before ages ago. I think Jenny was still there. There was a montage. Jenny etc were pupils themselves at the start, there would be teaching sessions with the nuns and a blackboard etc.

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

And little Cyril is destined to be unbuffed.

Also, The Samaritans was founded by an Anglican vicar - so was it really secular in the 1960s?

@OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea

Joining the club. My goodness this series is shit and it isn't just the social distancing.

What's with simpering Mrs T's amazing idea of hosting pupils? They've had pupils before ages ago. I think Jenny was still there. There was a montage. Jenny etc were pupils themselves at the start, there would be teaching sessions with the nuns and a blackboard etc.

Yeah I thought that, they've definitely had students before. I remember Jenny moaning about them!!

We thought SMJ was dead until she opened her eye and made us scream 😵🤣

I was a bit sceptical that GD wouldn't have been known about in 1966, I'll have a Google...

@Itwasjustresting

Also, The Samaritans was founded by an Anglican vicar - so was it really secular in the 1960s?

Yes, especially with that name

I thought the evil receptionist commenting she had too much admin to do, plus Louise being an unemployed hospital clerk would equal slightly less evil receptionist plus happy clerk but no.

It's getting very annoying that the Turners are the first ever people to diagnose gestational diabetes, radiation from nuclear testing and thalidomide and yet they still haven't been awarded a Nobel Prize.

They HAVE their Nobel prizes.

The little yay kids use the medals as coins in their toy shoppy.

They’re positively minted with them.

It's getting very annoying that the Turners are the first ever people to diagnose gestational diabetes, radiation from nuclear testing and thalidomide and yet they still haven't been awarded a Nobel Prize.

Oh well played, @MelissaVonStressel, absolutely sterling work.

“Yes, especially with that name”

I don’t understand, sorry - the Good Samaritan is one of the parables of Jesus.

Exactly, so it wasn't secular. That was my point

@Itwasjustresting

Meh. It’s become Call Dr Turner.

Yes you're right. It's not centred enough on the women's stories any more. The women of the East End and the midwives who were with them.

The female characters whose value is to be part of a couple are far less interesting. No wonder Phyllis and receptionist lady are so fabulous.

I also think it's suffering from setting a series about Miriam Margoles.

@woodhill

Exactly, so it wasn't secular. That was my point

Thanks! Sorry, I was being dim.

No problem but it was a daft comment by the scriptwriter imCTM otherwise why would it have been called Samaritans😊

According to their site Samaritains was set up by a CoI vicar, and he handed it over to volunteers in 1954 when it became what it is today.

No reference to religion, so still not clear!!

CoE sorry, not CoI

It seemed an odd point to make. But it’s only a diversion from my rage at the Dr Turner show. He seemed to be in all the storylines this weekend, except the failed picnic. And as PP said, this was originally a series that centred women - mothers, midwives, nurses and nuns.

Ah resting

Dr Turner made the picnic sandwiches. And sliced the eggs from the chickens he keeps in the back garden. And garnished it with the cress he grew on the kitchen window sill.

Only after baking the bastard bread he made from wheat he genetically modified to make people not want to eat more than two slices of said bread a week.

Yes and Fred Buckle was singlehandedly going to resolve Sister Monica Joan's crisis of faith. Perhaps the new curate can do that now. Anyone other than a woman, basically.

Or perhaps as well as being married to the show runner and curing world poverty, Dr Turner is immune to Covid so was able to keep on filming throughout.