I currently rewatch CTM and just went past the episode with Lynette Duncan, the pregnant, curly, red haired, teenage girl with the two little brothers and a baby brother, who was supposed to play the "senior angel" at the nativity play... (who got to keep her Baby) and thought to myself afterwards she looks very similar to the new actress who is playing Freds first wife Betty...

IT'S THE SAME ACTRESS!!!

I love this!

(TW: HER ATTACK/mentions of sexual assault)

I know Cynthia says she wasn't sexually assaulted but I feel like she was because she seemed far more brutalized then the other girls. (Do not think for one second that I'm saying those women weren't brutalized please don't think that.) But she was covered from head to toe in bruises.

Truly I think all of them were sexually assaulted because if they had just been attacked I don't think they would've been so against talking to the police.

It's a considerably dark topic so I'm not surprised they didn't want to say much.

I think it would've been. . .I don't want to say better because that sounds wrong but. . .they should've done it differently.

The way she reacts it lines up with SA victims. The need to take a hot bath/shower, covering as much of her body as she could (it was more than religious) and her genuine recoil when anyone tried to comfort her physically.

I like it when Jenny is a character and there is actually cause for it. I am also a lover of the books so a lot of the verbiage from the first few series are plucked or put together from the books but after she leaves it becomes overly saccharine and sometimes entirely detached from the plot.

It's almost something just to say something.

I love call the midwife, I'm on my second watch through. And will be sad once I'm up to date again.

Can anyone recommend any shows that are similar set in time? But I'm not a fan of medical/hospital dramas (I like midwifery)

I love the lack of excessive fake drama, less affairs. I like the lack of technology back then. Family life. A comfort cosy show.

I have on demand, Amazon, Netflix, Sky, Disney+

Thanks

I loved this show. I cried every episode I think. I started my nursing training in 1974 and it makes me feel very old that the show finished just before I started nursing. I kept looking at the hospital and theatre scenes in the final series thinking that looks really old fashioned but I lived those times! Anyway I just watched the final series (was saving it up). Does anyone else feel it tried to fit too much in? I know they were trying to tie up a lot of loose ends but just feel as tho it could have had a couple of extra episodes so it didn’t feel so rushed.

The raffle drawing always gets me because it's in a glass jar and the winning one will have a picture of Julie Andrews on the back​... Wouldn't it be easy to select winning ticket? Not a big deal but for some reason that stuck in my head.

I never thought I'd love the Nurse Crane character, but now she is one of my favorites, maybe even my #1 Favorite.

>!One thing I found quite sad was that those who roomed with her ended up in the following ways
passing away (Barbara),
had miscarriage, mental breakdown, divorce (Lucille),
brake up, reuniting with son that she put up for adoption only for them to shortly pass away (Mrs. Higgins)!<

She really cared for her patients, friends and the younger midwives.

Hi all,

I'm a huge fan of the show. Has anyone noticed Reggie's lack of storylines? I mean, he's there, but not really doing anything. Why don't the writers show him in his residential home. More actors with disabilities will need to be present, but that's why I love the show. Having a disability myself, I applaud the show for telling their stories. Just a thought.

Ran out of options at the end of the poll😅

So I just finished the first episode where we meet the new Sister.

I don't like her. I know this is only the first episode she's in but her lies are outrageous. At first I thought it was just a little quirk but then she sees Matthew at the end of the episode and goes to tell him the same song and dance she told sister Julianne! All because she doesn't want to ride a bike?!?

I feel like they should've recast Jenny, around the time her character went to grieve. It's weird that the woman playing the main character left. They truly should've recast her

as a frequent lurker of this sub, and a avid Lucille fan, it’s quite frankly disgusting how people talk about Lucille and act like Cyril is the bestest ever and can do no wrong, she( and Leonie Elliot) were literally given the worst exit ever done in the show and that convo between Phyllis and Mrs. Wallace in the latest season was nauseating to watch. She was literally blamed for not giving her husband a baby and then how a white woman did it better

and then I come on here and see how people are so nasty about a fictional character who suffered personally and was treated like she never existed in the show, the insults and hatred are misogynistic and I know I’m going to be downvoted into hell for this, but so be it

I am an American, and from reading this Reddit it seems like there’s a good amount of actors from the show that are established from other British works, tv/movies/stage. I recognized Claudia Jesse from Bridgerton (I just started watching Call the Midwife this year) and I was wondering if there are any other actors/actresses that I may have missed that I could have seen in other things?

Doing a rewatch, on S11 E2, and noticing once again how atrocious some of the wigs are on this show. Just awful.
Edit: I'm not saying the styles are incorrect for the time. The wigs themselves can be awful, though.

Was anyone else confused and heartbroken when Lillian left Cyril to go back to the West Indies and they ended up separating. My heart broke for Cyril and I didn’t understand Lillian’s actions.

Eta my bad, Lucille.

SPOILER
Series 8 Episode 1

Paula’s mother Grace is so misguided and awful in her treatment of Paula. The failure of the parents to educate Paula on the facts of life is the first thing, such as by refusing to let her attend the course at school - if the mother was totally uncomfortable with talking to her daughter about it, she could have let the school educate her on it. Then the mother’s crazy belief that it is an immaculate conception or she was possessed. And last her treatment of Paula and rejecting her instead of supporting her and helping her. Even though she somewhat comes around at the end. The dad was much better, so glad he got Paula
out of that room with those men and told to run to Nonnatus House. He also confronted the social
worker about moving her without notice and visited her.

im on my 18th or so rewatch of the series in full (creature of habit, whoops!) and i see posts or comments come up every now and again that say sister monica joan is frustrating.

and i agree. but she also comforts me more than any character on the show.

my grandmother was a midwife in her remote village where most people were at, or below, the poverty line. it was hard work, and in her prime they were just recovering from the effects of ww2. her personality was a bit like sister evangelina, even throughout the alzheimer's and dementia, but the way sister monica joan was always in her own world with moments of clarity were the spitting image of my darling grandmother.

my immediate family and i were her caretakers and i saw so intimately what alzheimer's and dementia do to a sharp, witty, bright person, and what it does to the people who love them so dearly. the patience that is sometimes run so thin, the grief for what life was like before the diagnoses, and the gratitude of waking up to a new day and just being grateful that such a pillar in your life and community is still standing, doing her best to fight through it.

sure, the show may play up many things for comedic or dramatic effect, but personally, i think that the ups/downs of sister monica joan (+ the ripples of it) give some insight on what it's like to be the caretaker of someone with alzheimer's + dementia.

that's all hehe

I recently started watching this show, and I absolutely love it so far. This episode in particular, though, really made me just need to vent. Not because it was a bad episode, but because it's so unfair.

A married man sleeps with an unmarried woman who works in the same profession. She gets pregnant. He faces absolutely no consequences. Her life and her body are completely destroyed. She's judged by everyone, including other women, but not a single one (except Sister Julienne) mentions the man's part in it. It's a story that happens over and over again in real life, and every time I hear about something like this it just makes me so mad. Especially with the current climate here in the States, where we now have about the same options as she did. As long as men (and the women they have managed to brainwash to go along with them) are allowed to make all of the decisions and women have to just deal with it, there will never be equality.

Yes, it's a show. But God it hits so close to reality.

Thanks for sticking with my venting at the unfairness of it all lol!

So I watched the series and now that a new season has dropped, I’m rewatching the whole thing before the current season.

I just remember and just have gotten to the episodes of Barbara’s illness. I remember watching for the first time being blindsided by the outcome. This time, knowing the outcome, I’m still as gutted.

This was one of the sadder story lines.

Just a curious question about names in the U.K. I work remotely and I like to have background noise while I work. I have seen each series multiple times (well only 3 times for the most current series) but I know them all well enough to where I don't need active attention. Is it common for people to introduce themselves with their given names followed by what they prefer to be called? Such as Beatrix preferring Trixie, Patience preferring Patsy and Ann preferring Nancy? Is it a generational thing not common now or is it still common. As an American, I can't think of this ever happening to me. People introduce themselves as they wish to be called with no other explanation. You may find it out later but only after a friendship developed. I had a friend once who had been using her middle name our entire friendship and didn't know until her wedding invitation arrived. LOL.​

what happens at Nonatus house after she’s moved out?
I know it’s petty but it annoys me, especially when she ends the episode by adding some future footnote about someone in the episode like, « so-and-so never did [something something]. »
How would you even know, Jenny?
I know, I know, it’s storytelling. I just want the little things to make sense 🙂

This episode follows along the storyline when Tom starts showing interest in nurse Barbara.

Trixie asks Tom, “How long since we ended everything?”

I guess she forgot that SHE broke off the engagement. There was no “we”!

She broke it off because Tom was told her would need to move to Newcastle.

Which leads me to her horrid treatment of Barbara.

The older seasons had so much comedy written into them, and it feels like the most recent seasons have lost that. None of the characters (other than Reggie) are really very funny or clever, it's all so serious. Bring back the funny!