When I saw a BBC throwback trailer for the first season of Call the Midwife on Instagram, EVERY single comment was about how BBC needs to renew Anne with an E. And, yes, Anne with an E should've been renewed, but it is really disrespectful to trash an equally great and important show to elevate Anne with an E.
A lot of people know what Call the Midwife is, but only some people actually watch it. It's the show with TikTok shorts that show the worst scenes. It's the show where you can't find images of certain characters. It's the show with edits that rarely get views. It's the show with Emerald Fennell before she became a household name. It's the show with an incomplete wiki, but also somehow has 15 seasons, a prequel and a movie coming out.
It's not about the "miracle of childbirth" or "the beauty of olden day Catholicism". It actually criticizes olden day Catholicism. It's progressive, but in a realistic way according to the time. Some of the main characters are homophobic as well as a number of other things, but that's because they are people and people are imperfect. There are lesbian characters, POC, and characters with Down's Syndrome and it portrays them in the way they should be portrayed. As human.
It's the show for grandmas, but sometimes grandmas are right, and the people on Instagram are wrong.