call the midwife part 2

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I am setting up the next thread before i forget.

And YES to the detective agency spin off! So much better than a film. I can imagine Harry popping up to assist/worrying about them whilst they have the times of their lives. Miss Higgins would make a perfect Miss Climpson.

I did a mini applause when Trixie refused to turn around as well, can’t imagine he’d have said that to a man!

liked the wedding although thought her parents might have turned up after all.

I thought it was a good ending, felt right that people were moving on with their lives. I’d have liked to have seen

Posted too soon 🤦‍♀️

Chummy and Jenny at SMJs funeral.

I thought I did see Nancy in one

I’m not sorry to see the back of Sister MJ she was getting on my nerves latterly

not clear on the point of the Sr Veronica storyline.

I thought the ghost nuns was a bit over the top and cringey, to be honest, although I really liked the funeral and the hymns.

It was the ultrasound scene that got me misty eyed, even if it was a bit too clear. The look on Rosalind's face of wonder and joy - I remember that feeling from the first time I saw DC1 on ultrasound. And then the whole room was experiencing it too, because of the new technology.

The doctor doing the ultrasound and dancing with Trixie's brother really looked like Jacob Rees Mogg.

i think they should call themselves Miss Adventures

no more Nurse Crane or Miss Higgins, that's sad.
i agree, seemed odd that Catherine was doing the speech at the funeral rather than the head nun, and i thought she was slightly over emotional

I believe that Trixie refusing to turn around was a call back to when she first went to work at the Lady Emily, when she did turn around in her very skintight and very impractical uniform when he asked her to.

Yes yes yes. BBC are you reading this? (Other channels and programme makers are available.)

I still wish the Turners would just die. All of them. His smug creepy face and her simpering head tilt pathetic voice "oh Patrick". And the son, dont get me started on him and that hair. Where the fuck did they get that hair from.
I wish a big fuck off boulder would fall from the heavens on the lot of them

Terrible miming singing from the nuns, who would have had much more mature voices than the beautiful ladies' choir.

Question: do we think Sister Julienne and Sister Monica Joan's actors fell out in real life and refused to do scenes with each other? It was actually torturously obvious (like back in Covid filming days) that they didn't appear in scenes together.

Isn't Chummy still supposed to be local? Thought she would have sent flowers at the very least.

Judy Parfitt (Monica Joan) on Jenny Agutter (Julienne): "I absolutely adore her. I love her – and this isn’t something I often say, but I really do. It’s impossible not to love her."

They get on very well, although they are very different. Parfitt will call a spade a fucking shovel but is also wickedly naughty and funny. Agutter is quite like her character and very serene, well organised.

I suspect the filming separately during COVID will have been partly due to health issues. Parfitt is now 90 and they will have been very careful and minimising interactions

Heidi Thomas said Pam Ferris came out of retirement specifically to do that scene "for Judy" when she had the idea of the ghostly nuns. Had she said no, she's have written something quite different. Once Ferris said yes, there was no need for Agutter's character to be there too (in fact, it needed Monica Joan to be there on her own).

This was my read of it too.
I wonder if it played into her decision - seeing a doctor (someone with far more power and authority at least in the views of wider society) having a double life, still having to hide part of himself, and thinking of her own double life (as Beryl but also Sister Veronica) and that the life she could have as Beryl without a child, while novel and fun, was not the one she wanted.
That said, I feel like she looked terribly sad when Sister Julienne was talking about potential next steps. It would have made more sense to me if she had requested to return to the Order but be transferred back to Hong Kong to work with the orphans and embrace a mothering role through that.

She didn't leave. She "took a break" to consider her future. I think at the time fostering or adoption by a gay man or single woman would be very poorly considered. I was in the US at the time but I remember the sensation that was caused in the US in the early 90's by allowing gay male couples to foster babies born with HIV. The driver was that no straight couples would take them so it was a life in a specialised orphanage (they weren't allowed to be with uninfected babies) or gay couples.

This. I think there was a hint of revenge there as well as Trixie coming into her own.

I too thought Chummy stayed in the area after her time abroad with her pc husband who has appeared from time to time.

I think hair like that was pretty common in 1971. It was what all the boys looked like 6 months after leaving school- short back and sides grown out.

One thing I liked about the whole series was the truth in it! Not so factually true as the books but then aspects of it would not have made it to TV before the watershed. By and large I thought the social history was truthful and while we did get our happy endings the facts were not sugared over completely.

this definitely.

She might do....her future is left open.

I watched the Harold Fry film on Saturday. I have read the book so I knew what to expect, but I thought it was very well done.

CTM link too as Queenie Hennessy was played by Linda Bassett (Nurse Crane)

I don't think it was a teaching moment so much as a handing on moment and remember he was declaring dead someone who had known him since he was a small child. I think Timothy was having a blank moment due to emotion. He obvs had done it before because he said "I always feel as though I should talk to them" and in fact when my own husband died at home, the district nurse and GP who came actually did talk to him as though he could still hear them.

Harsh 🙈😂😂

A lot of people like to die on their own, they’ll wait until a relative has nipped to the loo or something and then die. I thought that was well done actually and reflected how I’ve seen patients die at home, especially when they are dying of old age.

Poor Sister Catherine's storyline has been so boring this season, waiting for death!