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hogwartsgraduate said:

Yes I was surprised Cyril wasn't as vocal over missing Lucille either but at least the Turner kids spoke lol

I was expecting a showdown/revelation over the multiple birth as in the other doctor knew it was more etc, but like the other storylines it fizzled out to nothing.

Love Trixie's brother!

We are going into 1969 then now? Possible events to include
* Moon landing
* Manson cult killings
* Concorde test flight
* Charles becomes Prince of Wales
* Woodstock music festival
* Beatles release Abbey Road album

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1969 is the year of the first heart transplant so get ready for Dr Turner performing a transplant in clinic and then going home for tea

kingseven said:

For 1970 I’d like to see a fertility centre opened adjacent to the Maternity Home led by Dr Turner and his God Complex escalates to the point he starts fertilising women with his own semen and fathers half the babies born in Poplar that year.

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With Shelagh looking on in awe: “oh Patrick!”

Guys I can’t believe we’re 12 series deep and sister Monica Joan lives to see another day. That’s the only shock of the series

Apple In My Pie said:

They’re going to kill Turner off and have Tim take his place aren’t they

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Heidi has been reading this thread like “boring is it? I’ll show you all”

Re the advertising, photo competition.
In the 60s would the company really have chosen the Shah’s to advertise their products?
Surely back then it would have definitely been a ”typical” white family chosen?

Also, as a previous poster said, would the geriatric mum‘s husband have been so accepting immediately?

I sometimes think the writers are writing this as if it is set in the present day not over 50 years ago.

Shesaidwhat? said:

I have my suspicions that could very well be on the cards for Timothy you know. But yes it would be a joyous celebration with balloons, tea and cake wouldn’t it?

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The celebrations at the Turner’s would make the Notting Hill Carnival look like tea at granny’s!

Sheila - “Oh Patrick, I’ve always wanted a gay son! Look at our diverse family. God has truly blessed us!”

I really can’t stand Sheila & her kids! She’s such a twee, sickly character. I loved her as a nun but her voice grates on me now. And the kids are always front & centre at every event!

For 1970 I’d like to see a fertility centre opened adjacent to the Maternity Home led by Dr Turner and his God Complex escalates to the point he starts fertilising women with his own semen and fathers half the babies born in Poplar that year.

My Mum was almost drowned by her first husband in the 60s but she escaped and got help. The police were called and my mum returned to the house to get some clothes, she was soaking wet, clearly traumatised and the policemen were laughing and joking with her husband on the doorstep, one copper laughing as he said, I bet that shook her up. This was one of many incidents.

Very few people actually wanted to help in those days and even fewer people could help. My mum couldn't get a tenancy as a single mum and wasn't allowed to buy anything on HP because businesses didn't like doing trade with divorced women. I'm glad this has been highlighted here, it often annoys me how they show everyone as enlightened back then, when they weren't. Lots of women suffered needlessly

A friend and I were talking this morning, we’ve both watched the show since the beginning. We both agreed that the whole show has lost the gritty realism of when it was based on Worth’s memoirs. Each episode’s ending is utterly predictable. I wasn’t at all concerned for Fred’s prognosis last week. I also don’t like how the characters and 99% of the community they’re based in seem to go by 2024 social justice standards. No way in 1960s East End, would people of colour, Down’s Syndrome, or people who were obviously gay would be so embraced by society. These were the days when pubs had “No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish” signs in the windows. Not to mention an Irish single mother openly living with her illegitimate child in a CONVENT, and working in a respected position as a midwife no less. My eldest aunt had her first child out of wedlock in the late 70s, and my grandad, who was in no way a religious man, didn’t speak to her for months afterwards. My mum had a friend who also had an illegitimate child in the late 70s and was forced to go to a mother and baby home, and her child was taken away. I quite frankly find this rose tinted portrayal of those times an insult to those who’ve struggled in the past because of characteristics they had no control over.
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anonymous1221 said:

A friend and I were talking this morning, we’ve both watched the show since the beginning. We both agreed that the whole show has lost the gritty realism of when it was based on Worth’s memoirs. Each episode’s ending is utterly predictable. I wasn’t at all concerned for Fred’s prognosis last week. I also don’t like how the characters and 99% of the community they’re based in seem to go by 2024 social justice standards. No way in 1960s East End, would people of colour, Down’s Syndrome, or people who were obviously gay would be so embraced by society. These were the days when pubs had “No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs” signs in the windows. Not to mention an Irish single mother openly living with her illegitimate child in a CONVENT, and working in a respected position as a midwife no less. My eldest aunt had her first child out of wedlock in the late 70s, and my grandad, who was in no way a religious man, didn’t speak to her for months afterwards. I quite frankly find this rose coloured portrayal of those times an insult to those who’ve struggled in the past for characteristics they had no control over.

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Also the fact that SMJ is the ultimate coffin dodger, she must be about 125! She’ll outlive the student midwives at this point.

PamDoove said:

I love Miss Higgins almost as much as I love Nurse Crane, I hope next week’s episode doesn’t end with her leaving on some journey of self discovery or absolution.

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I’ve heard rumours that Miss Higgins will emigrate to the US to be with Matthew.
They been lusting after each other since the last series.
His almost bankruptcy is just a ruse so that Trixie doesn’t take him to the cleaners in their divorce.
Matthew and Miss Higgins will be shacked up in a little love nest in New York whilst Jonty will be sent off to boarding school.
Trixie will give up men for good and become a nun, eventually running Nonatus House as the Mother Superior until she meets a widowed Captain with 7 children but that’s a whole different story...

I'm starting to sense a prediction for a storyline, based on the homosexuality news item on the tv in the Turner house. We've never seen Tim show interest in girls - nothing wrong with that though. He'll discover his sexuality at university and come out to his dad and Sheila. Stephen McGann will give a BAFTA winning performance by acting out Dr Turner's very liberal approach and declaring to everyone that "my son is gay and I'm so proud!"

Baby Giraffe said:

Didn’t Dr Turner have terminal cancer r something at one point or have I totally imagined this?

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If that man had terminal cancer he’d find a cure and be teaching himself the steps to Riverdance before the end of the episode.

yankydoo said:

When Reggie ran out to give his coat and scarf to the pregnant lady

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I adore Reggie. It would be nice if she came back and was a friend for him.

My mum got pregnant in 1961 and she had to get married. There was simply no question of her having the child and keeping it so she got married and had to stay married even though her husband was awful.

My dad got a girl pregnant in 1968 and her family would not allow her and my dad to get married, for religious reasons. The girl was Indian, my dad's family weren't totally accepting of the mixed relationship but would have supported a marriage, which they both wanted. Her family locked her in a room until she was ready to go into an unmarried mother's home where she was forced to give the baby up. It really annoys me that they give the 60s the chocolate box treatment, no one was that accepting. It must have been an awful time to be alive, in many ways

I enjoyed the Christmas Special this year but I do wish they'd stop rewriting history. I think it's important that children see the bigotry of the past so that they can learn from it. It's important that we don't misrepresent what people went through, it'll become all too easy for people to gloss over what went on if we aren't exposed to it.

Be woke in contemporaneous dramas, not in historical dramas. I applaud liberal social attitudes but I do not applaud misrepresentation in the slightest. It's dangerous to pretend they weren't racist, homophobic or misogynistic in this country, some still are

Emxxx said:

I said to my husband, he just always happens to be somewhere when there's an accident.

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He’s Poplar's Harold Shipman

God, Matthew is genuinely a terrible actor. He’s been to the Joey Tribbiani ‘smell the fart’ school of acting.

I love the lack of continuity and logic. So, Trixie’s brother has disappeared, so have Fred’s daughters. Cyril’s church was in everyone’s face last week but nowhere to be seen when a black family desperately needed help this week. Trixie is struggling to hold down a husband and a job meanwhile Shelagh seems to work full time with four kids.

ATV2021 said:

Call the Midwife stars on Trixie and Matthew’s relationship breakdown | Radio Times

Helen George and Olly Rix spoke with RadioTimes.com and other press about their characters' marital troubles in Call the Midwife season 13.

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So is this how they'll write him out? Trixie getting pissed at not being able to splash the cash?!

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Why bother marrying Trixie off if she's just gonna end up being miserable again? Why can't she be happy? And that article making out like Trixie is just some sort of gold digger who is only interested in Matthew for his money and enjoying the lifestyle, since when has that been Trixie's character?? On the outside she's always come across as needing the finer things in life and having it all but really she just wants to be loved and to be happy. she's never been the type to lord it up above others. What is happening to the writing on this show Having said that i will still be watching every episode

Kthxbye said:

I think Phyllis is on the train, they made a point of saying she was back in England for her last few days of leave before coming back at the weekend.

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If they kill Phyliss off, I am never watching it again