call the midwife part 2

[NimbleHiker]

I am setting up the next thread before i forget.

I have nurse friends who tell me they always talk to the deceased as if they were alive.

Yes. She had to be alone to see the ghosts. Also, anecdotally, people often seem to slip away when left for even five minutes.

This would be a dream for me.
Solving crimes, running the scouts and fixing the locals one misfit at a time.

I sat with my grandmother for 12 hours. She passed away when I was gone for three minutes (toilet). Nurse said to me then she sees it very often.

She went to the headline conference for Sister Veronica !

maybe the actress herself is getting frail.....maybe it was something she personally wanted to say through the character.

I also think that it was a choosing point for her. Geoff had never taken her into his social life and I think while Beryl understood he was not hetero, she hadn't actually thought through meeting his gay friends and entering his social circle, including finding out things like Dr Parry was also gay and in a gay relationship. I am not saying she was prejudiced, although many people were accepting in theory but not wanting to become involved so to speak, not wanting to be responsible for their secrets. If she could have had a child, she might have thought it worth it......
I also thought the character was a nod to the Profumo scandal and the role of Stephen Ward who took his own life over it.

I loved Sister Evangelina appearing, such a surprise and I shed a tear. I thought the funeral was done really well and interesting that Heidi got her own congregation in to do it realistically. A good send off for SMJ.

I was disappointed that Beryl didn’t leave the order. Returning doesn’t solve the internal dilemma she had. It didn’t really make sense to me that the answer was doing the thing that had previously caused her so much internal torment. The farewell on the pier was very moving though.

I liked that they gave Dr Parry a back story and I loved him dancing in the gay bar.

Rosalind still annoyed me for some reason! I don’t feel it fitted with her parents’ ‘progressive’ characters to completely abandon her in 1971 even if they unreasonably disapproved.

I completely missed Trixie suddenly and conveniently being able to invest the hospital and lost interest in that storyline.

I enjoyed it a lot overall though and would love to see the detective spin off!

I understand Beryl saying g that as a midwife she can hold babies everyday. I desperately wanted children but haven’t met anyone. But as a paediatric nurse I take comfort in cuddling our patients and looking after children.

I loved Sister Evangelina appearing

Me too, it was just perfect.

Rosalind still annoyed me for some reason! I don’t feel it fitted with her parents’ ‘progressive’ characters to completely abandon her in 1971 even if they unreasonably disapproved

I completely agree and thought the same. They'd have come round once they knew she was pregnant or at least by the wedding. It didn't fit with their previous portrayal

It was good but harrowing. The harrowing part was nothing to do with the old lady in the hospice.

Not MJ, Catherine

oh oops!!

its the same as my "gay" comments! fine to be progressive till it gets too close to home!!

Again maybe for her, the least bad choice?

You Could tell the priest knew how to handle as Aspergillium.

I noticed that in the trailer for The Other Bennet Sister (which looks very good), which followed CTM, Mary Bennet is being played by Ella Bruccoleri, who played Sister Frances in CTM (left around 2022 I think)!

I cried when Sister MJ died, and at the Pam Ferris cameo - it was beautifully done. Excellent acting from all members playing the Mullucks family, particularly the dad. The love the character has for Susan, despite his initial refusal to have anything to do with "it" at birth, plus his tender-hearted interactions with Sister MJ at the end of her life, were incredibly well performed.

Would love to see a Nurse Crane/Miss Higgins detective series, with Harry (and possibly Geoffrey) doing some of the more 'active' aspects.

I think the prequel will be interesting. I will gladly put money on a scene where a little doe-eyed blonde girl runs up to a nun and someone shouts "No, come here Beatrix!" - followed by brief camera close-up shot of winning Trixie-tot before she runs back offscreen - at some point.

Exactly. I read the books many years ago and the stories have stayed with me.

But then "Oh Patrick" would magic up a cure for squashed-by-a-boulderitis.

That happened with my mum. I went to the ladies and she passed away before I got back to her.

Happened with my grandma. She was stable so the nurse told my mum to go home and get some rest. She died while they’d gone.

So with Sister Julienne - I agree Sister Monica Joan needed to be by herself at the end so that Sister Evangelina and the Stunt Nun Ghosts could take her away.

But Sister Julienne seemed to be actively avoiding her. Didn't pop in with a cup of tea and some comforting words, didn't try to persuade her to take her meds (or tell her it was OK not to), didn't visit the body after she'd passed (on screen).

I'm sensing Nun Beef.

The ppssible issue seems to be that Jenny Agutter's own husband was dying from cancer while filming this last series. He passed away in December.

While I'm sure she would have been totally professional in any scenes required of her, maybe the writers decided to spare her this storyline out of kindness and respect for her situation.

My grandma died on her own too. She was stable on the Saturday night so me and my mum spent the night at home. On the Sunday morning my mum got a call from the hospital to say that my grandma was near the end of life. She passed away while the nurse was on the phone to my mum.

I thought that it was a good film too.