Call The Midwife Series 13 Part 2

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Or Call Saint Turner, as the show has really turned into.

They're killing Trixie's character off, all that character building to make her grabby.

Matthew is broke and maybe divorces her? Or kills himself? Is my bet.

Turners are getting annoying, and what is going on with the lack of births. It's like they've run out of ideas.

Matthew is broke and maybe divorces her? Or kills himself? Is my bet.

No way. Too realsitic.

My own prediction is that when this finally all comes out, Trixie stays in Poplar to live off her aunt's money and raise Jonty (by never seeing him or mentioning him at all, except on beach trips) while Matthew goes off to New York to learn how to be a millionaire. And is never mentioned again.

Love it. Perfect ending

Also, whilst I love Phyllis, is it at all possible she could ever speak to another female character without using the word "lass"? Sometimes, fine. But every sodding time!

I wouldn't recommend playing a "lass" drinking game. You'll be hammered before 8.15 pm

I wonder if Trixie's driving might end up in disaster for Matthew (although that would be a very harsh plot line for Trixie). Her driving seems to be highlighted quite a lot, but maybe that's only because it leads on to wanting a new sports car which adds to the financial pressure brewing. I can't imagine Matthew would divorce Trixie, or that she would divorce him if/because he's broke.

I know CTM has its little quirks but I still really, really love it. Sometimes I think things get pulled apart too much on every detail. Ultimately it's a drama not a documentary and there has to be some artistic licence

It could go completely Eastenders and have Matthew in prison for murder?

I know in the preview for next week Trixie was saying that Matthew had been lying to her. I agree it wouldn't reflect well on her if she divorced him over money problems though.

There’s always a scene in each episode that raises expectations that something dramatic is about to happen. This week, it was the scene with Phylis in the car heading back, when the little girl (“lass”) asked for a balloon- uh-oh, here comes a car crash or child leaning out of open window to grab balloon - but, no, breathe out, it didn’t happen. I’m thinking this is the same with Trixie’s driving, suggesting she might have an accident, but think it’s a straight forward, new driver is just driving around Poplar (and to the seaside).

I know CTM has its little quirks but I still really, really love it. Sometimes I think things get pulled apart too much on every detail. Ultimately it's a drama not a documentary and there has to be some artistic licence

I think it's not that but more to with how it has changed. There were some slight anachronisms, but now they're glaring. The acting and characterisation has declined too. I don't find it as enjoyable a watch. A previous poster mentioned how they used to be in tears at some episodes, too, but that's no longer the case. I feel similarly unmoved nowadays.

Call the Midwife Drinking Game

Take a drink:

• Every time Mrs Turner says "Oh dearie me"
• Every time Trixie is so posh you can't actually understand her
• Every time a diagnosis is heavily foreshadowed (e.g. rusty piece of metal = tetanus)
• Every time Dr Turner mansplains something that the midwives would definitely already know about

Take two drinks:

• Every time the yay kids say YAY
• Every time Phyllis calls someone "lass"
• Every time Sister Monica Joan reckons she's dying
• Every time Matthew is unnaturally sweaty
• Every time Dr Turner saves the day

Down the lot:

• Every time Dr Turner comes up with a cutting-edge medical diagnosis that was literally discovered that year
• If a disappearing character (e.g. Jenny, Chummy, Lucile etc.) is ever mentioned again

Any additions?

It made me laugh in the last episode when Mrs Turner was in hospital with May and Dr Turner is giving them an update from the consultant.

'Did you hear that May?! The doctors say you'll make a full recovery!'
'Did you hear that May?! You'll be able to come home soon!'

Of course she bloody heard, she's not deaf!

🤣@medicalmysterymachine

Take a drink: If Poplars very own Miss Rabbit-Violet Buckle gets another job/area of responsibility.

Brilliant 😄

I was born in 71 and remember paddling and jumping over the waves fully clothed when i was 4 and suddenly finding myself crawling out of the water soaking wet as I'd ended up in a dip. I remember my clothes being really heavy with water and running crying to my parents sitting on the beach. I don't think they had realised what happened.
When I was about 2-3 in our old house I remember wandering out the front door and being repeatedly smacked. If my kids had done that I'd have blamed myself, not lashed out at them. Was probably normal 70s parenting though.

That's my Sunday night sorted.

When I was 2, my dm was standing talking to someone and I decided to wander off. The whole neighbourhood was out looking for me for a long time. I was eventually found chatting to a wee boy quite some distance away. One of the neighbours took me in for a while so my dm could calm down and to avoid me getting a good 'leathering' which is apparently what I deserved. When I look back on this story as a mum, it horrifies and mystifies me how the 2 yo me was getting the blame and not my mum who was too caught up in her conversation to notice me walking off! Classic 70s parenting.

Love the CTM drinking game 😂

Miss Rabbit!! Yes, that's Violet. I presume Cyril is heading that way now that Fred's getting a bit past it.

They must have shop assistants... how else do they run a newsagents and haberdashery, plus be mayor, plus do odd jobs for the convent and elsewhere, plus be a lollipop man...

Surely CTM series ends for good some time in the post-recession 80s, when Violet finally moves out of the flat above one of her shops, cashes down her business empire, buys shares in Amstrad and retires to Chelsea…

…Sister Monica Joan will still be alive then, of course.

Does anyone else want to slap Violet when she was playing the high and mighty 'Councillor Buckle' act. Now she's mayor, she's even more insufferable. I doubt a Mayor would ear her chain to the seaside.

Wear

For me it comes down to plausibility, and once it’s become genuinely implausible (eg May’s mother’s input here), it spoils my enjoyment of the show. I can’t get lost in it.

Love that drinking game - I’d do it, but sadly cannot drink any more 😞