Noooooooo!! I love Call the Midwife, never missed an episode, but I cannot stand Rosie Jones. That will be the first episode I skipI watched today. I found it very meh this year. It was on 90 minutes and not much really happened. I did see Rosie Jones will be appearing in the new series in the preview so there’s an episode for me to skip.
Oh Christ noI watched today. I found it very meh this year. It was on 90 minutes and not much really happened. I did see Rosie Jones will be appearing in the new series in the preview so there’s an episode for me to skip.
He played Nathan in corrie! And once he was in a play I watched in my town and I had a fag (vape) with him. He's lovely!I’ve just watched it and it might be because I’m a couple of glasses of Prosecco down, but I quite enjoyed it. Hoping Cyril gets a more meaningful storyline in the new series and that Trixie’s brother becomes a permanent fixture - he’s a lovely addition! Shan’t be watching Rosie Jones under any circumstances
It's lost it's magic. You are spot on about Nancy, the mixed race baby but also Trixie's gay brother would not be so open about his sexuality! Being gay was illegal back then. I couldn't be bothered to get to the end of the episode. I've lost any interest in sister MJ (she has been a dull back story for years and to focus an Xmas special on the death thoughts of an elderly woman really is a stretch). They have stopped concentrating on the mother's and the stories of real people, which is typical of todays writers and the over woke BBC in general trying to re-write reality, the show is suffering because of it. What on earth the point of Nurse Crane even being in the episode, complete waste of a decent actress.For me, the magic of the Christmas specials has gone. Cyril never mentioned his wife Lucille, Shelagh getting in a flap about the present from Hong Kong and Nurse Crane was very under utilised. It was set in 1968 but with the social values of 2023 - no one batted an eyelid at the mixed race baby's birth and Nancy (a single unmarried mother) permitted to live in her place of employment with her illegitimate daughter! As ever, the endless background music is a distraction.
I found myself looking at the clock thinking "is it getting near the end yet?" As for Sister Monica Joan, I hope it is her last Christmas. Her character stopped being of any value many years ago. Sadly all period dramas are going the same way, history is rewritten to satisfy the woke box-ticking criteria.It's lost it's magic. You are spot on about Nancy, the mixed race baby but also Trixie's gay brother would not be so open about his sexuality! Being gay was illegal back then. I couldn't be bothered to get to the end of the episode. I've lost any interest in sister MJ (she has been a dull back story for years and to focus an Xmas special on the death thoughts of an elderly woman really is a stretch). They have stopped concentrating on the mother's and the stories of real people, which is typical of todays writers and the over woke BBC in general trying to re-write reality, the show is suffering because of it. What on earth the point of Nurse Crane even being in the episode, complete waste of a decent actress.
I think they are trying to do it out of representation, but they are failing the very people they are trying to represent. If you are not telling the true stories of these peoples lives and experiences then you are doing them a disservice. How will they claim their victimhood if history says they were never victims in the first place?I found myself looking at the clock thinking "is it getting near the end yet?" As for Sister Monica Joan, I hope it is her last Christmas. Her character stopped being of any value many years ago. Sadly all period dramas are going the same way, history is rewritten to satisfy the woke box-ticking criteria.
I wonder if she was not available to film at the time because most of her scenes weren’t with the rest of the regular cast and are the sort of things they could slot in at a later date.What on earth the point of Nurse Crane even being in the episode, complete waste of a decent actress.
Yeah I wondered if she was away filming something else and it overlapped. They did it with Nicola on Derry Girls because she was filming Bridgerton at the same time.I wonder if she was not available to film at the time because most of her scenes weren’t with the rest of the regular cast and are the sort of things they could slot in at a later date.
I’m gutted this programme has been allowed to continue running under such abysmal writing. The original series based on Jennifer Worth’s actual memoirs were superb and prove that social history is interesting enough without the need for moral preaching, hammy acting and poor script writing.
It’s barely about the midwifery, mothers and children now and more to do with Dr Turner saving just about anything whilst casually and clumsily mentioning something historically relevant that has nothing whatsoever to do with the storyline.
I also wonder if there is possibly some other issue behind the scenes by the way nurses Valerie and Lucille both left very abruptly without any proper announcements from the BBC.
I wondered the same.I wonder if she was not available to film at the time because most of her scenes weren’t with the rest of the regular cast and are the sort of things they could slot in at a later date.
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