Nah, Mrs Buckle always has a glint in her eye and seems somewhat 'unsatisfied'. Cyril could provide some spiritual healing.
All of this. I feel like every storyline is demonising people who subscribe to the societal norms of the time until our lord and saviour Dr Turner (and the midwives to a lesser extent) swoops in like a beacon of morality and sets them straight. Rinse and repeat. It’s SO cheesy.Caught up with Sunday’s episode today and found the homosexuality storyline to be very poorly conceived and played out.
We are to believe a boy who has just turned 17 and still reads the Beano goes off to work in a hotel a virgin, and not only starts an active gay sex life but also becomes a gay prostitute?
That the mother who was so overcome with grief at the news that she is wailing and clawing at the door, is right as rain the next day with the only remorse being she’s let her son down? And the father, at his age and with his background/values would also be so accepting; and they all want him to find a nice loving male partner.
Also that despite Dr. Turner saying that the NHS treatment would be chemical castration, he is so progressive he recognises it is not an illness or a character flaw, and doesn’t advise against him having sex with men despite the present medical or legal risks?
The part that may have been more interesting and indeed still relevant today was the boy’s internal struggle and the seeking of conversion therapy, but that was skimmed over in about a minute and a half.
I think they just want things to be nice and cosy, and that is not what life is like now and it certainly was not in the East End in the 1950s/60s.
When you break it down like that it is ridiculous. The clawing at the door though .Caught up with Sunday’s episode today and found the homosexuality storyline to be very poorly conceived and played out.
We are to believe a boy who has just turned 17 and still reads the Beano goes off to work in a hotel a virgin, and not only starts an active gay sex life but also becomes a gay prostitute?
That the mother who was so overcome with grief at the news that she is wailing and clawing at the door, is right as rain the next day with the only remorse being she’s let her son down? And the father, at his age and with his background/values would also be so accepting; and they all want him to find a nice loving male partner.
Also that despite Dr. Turner saying that the NHS treatment would be chemical castration, he is so progressive he recognises it is not an illness or a character flaw, and doesn’t advise against him having sex with men despite the present medical or legal risks?
The part that may have been more interesting and indeed still relevant today was the boy’s internal struggle and the seeking of conversion therapy, but that was skimmed over in about a minute and a half.
I think they just want things to be nice and cosy, and that is not what life is like now and it certainly was not in the East End in the 1950s/60s.
Spot on. I can remember my Grandad was utterly disgusted when Julian Clary got a slot on The Price is Right and crossed the road to avoid a local gay man in case it was catching. That was completely normal in the way 80s so where the writer found this progressive little corner of 1960s London is fascinating.Caught up with Sunday’s episode today and found the homosexuality storyline to be very poorly conceived and played out.
We are to believe a boy who has just turned 17 and still reads the Beano goes off to work in a hotel a virgin, and not only starts an active gay sex life but also becomes a gay prostitute?
That the mother who was so overcome with grief at the news that she is wailing and clawing at the door, is right as rain the next day with the only remorse being she’s let her son down? And the father, at his age and with his background/values would also be so accepting; and they all want him to find a nice loving male partner.
Also that despite Dr. Turner saying that the NHS treatment would be chemical castration, he is so progressive he recognises it is not an illness or a character flaw, and doesn’t advise against him having sex with men despite the present medical or legal risks?
The part that may have been more interesting and indeed still relevant today was the boy’s internal struggle and the seeking of conversion therapy, but that was skimmed over in about a minute and a half.
I think they just want things to be nice and cosy, and that is not what life is like now and it certainly was not in the East End in the 1950s/60s.
Cloud cuckoo land.Spot on. I can remember my Grandad was utterly disgusted when Julian Clary got a slot on The Price is Right and crossed the road to avoid a local gay man in case it was catching. That was completely normal in the way 80s so where the writer found this progressive little corner of 1960s London is fascinating.
The makers of Call the Midwife and the BBC must think that the viewers (especially the ones who lived through the 50's and 60's) have got selective amnesia. They're treating the viewers like idiots with their fairytale portrayal of an era which had a lot of prejudices.They are applying the rules of today’s cancel culture on the norms of the day. They think that if they portray societal attitudes of the day so many people will complain to the BBC. But huge sections of society were racist homophobic misogynistic and to deny that makes the programme very worthy.
I recognised her too! She looks so differentSo only just realised where I recognised the girl in the Voxi advert from... It’s Sister Frances. Must have been the hair that threw me!
Omg me tooI am in tears at the adoption scene.
The past 2 episodes have really been on form.That was a good one.
No, I had to Google it. I have had a baby & no idea why they had their heel prickedHave any of you heard of Pku disease?
The adoption scene was painful, I'd say the daughter never forgave her. Definitely a story about Timothy coming.