CALL THE MIDWIFE
Posted: May 19th, 2014, 3:41 pm
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This is just too good a show to be lumped in with the other various offerings on PBS much like Downton Abbey is so I'm giving it it's own topic line.
Today, after finally drying my eyes, I'm able to see my computer screen and the keys so I can ask my British friends if there is going to be a fourth season of this excellent program? Who could like Chummy's mater, you may ask, but when she died, the sympathetic feelings for Chummy were impossible to ignore. After that agonizing childbirth, and the death of mater, who would consider this a superb program, you also may ask. Well, I'll tell you. This is one of the most intriguing shows on TV. Set in the late 50'-60's in London's East End which I guess is a lower class neighborhood, it often has extremely serious subject matter, but again, often very funny and heart-warming story lines. Usually about 4 or 5 midwives (nurses) live and work at a catholic nuns convent named Nunnatus (patron saint of pregnant women ), along with about 4 or 5 nuns. The lead nun Sister Julienne, is a very kind and understanding sort who can forgive the slight hiccups the nurses stumble upon and her right hand is a "by the book" sort Sister Evangelina, who has a hard time accepting change and modernization, but can also be forgiving and understanding often enough. One of the nuns fell in love with the neighborhood doctor a couple of seasons ago, and they finally got married last season. Finally, the last nun is a very old woman Sister Monica Joan, who has quite a case of either senility or alzheimer's and speaks mainly only in biblical or poetic phrases and is rarely aware of the day, week or year. Other people appear as nuns, but rarely have spoken lines, they're just fillers for the convent scenes.
The nurses are' Trixie a blonde cutie who tries her best to imitate Marilyn M, Jayne Mansfield, etc. but at heart is just a small town gal looking for a husband. Jenny is the lead who wrote the book the series is based on, then Cynthia, a shy timid, but feisty little lady who handles troublesome husbands with a will of iron, and finally Chummy, another nurse who was married last season, and although decided to retire, couldn't stand it, and her policeman husband is a marvelous supporting sort who urges her to fulfill herself in all ways. Jenny's had boyfriends who have come and gone, unfortunately for her one was killed during WWI and it took most of the third season for her to recover, Trixie is always meeting someone, and quiet little Cynthia has yet to have an amorous adventure. But the little love stories are just minor side lines because the main theme is the care before, during, and after birth and all the things that can and do happen during pregnancy. You will shed tears on a weekly basis, trust me!!! So hopefully a fourth season is upcoming in the Fall and more after that.
This is such a wonderful show, I wish it had been noticed like Downton Abbey was so it could continue with some budgetary help or whatever it needs to return. PBS usually runs the whole previous season before starting the next, so hopefully you can catch it sometime this summer, if so, set your timers for record.
This is just too good a show to be lumped in with the other various offerings on PBS much like Downton Abbey is so I'm giving it it's own topic line.
Today, after finally drying my eyes, I'm able to see my computer screen and the keys so I can ask my British friends if there is going to be a fourth season of this excellent program? Who could like Chummy's mater, you may ask, but when she died, the sympathetic feelings for Chummy were impossible to ignore. After that agonizing childbirth, and the death of mater, who would consider this a superb program, you also may ask. Well, I'll tell you. This is one of the most intriguing shows on TV. Set in the late 50'-60's in London's East End which I guess is a lower class neighborhood, it often has extremely serious subject matter, but again, often very funny and heart-warming story lines. Usually about 4 or 5 midwives (nurses) live and work at a catholic nuns convent named Nunnatus (patron saint of pregnant women ), along with about 4 or 5 nuns. The lead nun Sister Julienne, is a very kind and understanding sort who can forgive the slight hiccups the nurses stumble upon and her right hand is a "by the book" sort Sister Evangelina, who has a hard time accepting change and modernization, but can also be forgiving and understanding often enough. One of the nuns fell in love with the neighborhood doctor a couple of seasons ago, and they finally got married last season. Finally, the last nun is a very old woman Sister Monica Joan, who has quite a case of either senility or alzheimer's and speaks mainly only in biblical or poetic phrases and is rarely aware of the day, week or year. Other people appear as nuns, but rarely have spoken lines, they're just fillers for the convent scenes.
The nurses are' Trixie a blonde cutie who tries her best to imitate Marilyn M, Jayne Mansfield, etc. but at heart is just a small town gal looking for a husband. Jenny is the lead who wrote the book the series is based on, then Cynthia, a shy timid, but feisty little lady who handles troublesome husbands with a will of iron, and finally Chummy, another nurse who was married last season, and although decided to retire, couldn't stand it, and her policeman husband is a marvelous supporting sort who urges her to fulfill herself in all ways. Jenny's had boyfriends who have come and gone, unfortunately for her one was killed during WWI and it took most of the third season for her to recover, Trixie is always meeting someone, and quiet little Cynthia has yet to have an amorous adventure. But the little love stories are just minor side lines because the main theme is the care before, during, and after birth and all the things that can and do happen during pregnancy. You will shed tears on a weekly basis, trust me!!! So hopefully a fourth season is upcoming in the Fall and more after that.
This is such a wonderful show, I wish it had been noticed like Downton Abbey was so it could continue with some budgetary help or whatever it needs to return. PBS usually runs the whole previous season before starting the next, so hopefully you can catch it sometime this summer, if so, set your timers for record.