Call The Midwife

PBS | BBC | BBC One | Release Date: January 15, 2012

8.5	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 10 Ratings

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HealingToolboxAug 14, 2020

Try the Christmas episodes first if you want to know if this is for you or not. I've watched the early seasons. Now watching Season Nine. It unashamedly concerns women's issues, public health issues (tuberculosis, diphtheria, etc among theTry the Christmas episodes first if you want to know if this is for you or not. I've watched the early seasons. Now watching Season Nine. It unashamedly concerns women's issues, public health issues (tuberculosis, diphtheria, etc among the poor) for the poor and the National Health Service as heroes. Episodes will feel slow if you are wanting more action. First episode is set in 1955 I think. Later years progress into the early 1960s. Acting is top drawer. A minor character with Down's syndrome, African and East Indians immigrating to UK are all handled with compassion, sensitivity and great humanity. Writing is very good to outstanding. When the writing weakens it dips into contrivances. For example in Season Nine a black nurse with a white pregnant mother gets trapped in an elevator. The white mom and black nurse are frosty. The baby has to be delivered in the elevator with only the black nurse attending. When mother and baby come out of the elevator, everyone claps. The white mom confesses to her own personal insecurities and apologizes to the black nurse. That's as bad as the writing gets. I prefer the earlier seasons so far set when the midwife service is just getting going. No one is very sure what is being offered or what's supposed to happen. Sadly one of the early main actresses whom I loved, stepped back to become a producer of the show.

Be careful not to take the medical paradigm here as current gospel. There is zero talk about eating healthy, no talk about vitamins and "all vaccines are good." Call the Midwives did not set out to be progressive; yet, as a major fictional public health success, this seems like a missed opportunity to me in the USA. Perhaps Best Practices in health-diet were much more common in the USA 1950s-1960s.… Expand

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Zumbie101Oct 13, 2020

Solid period drama, show follows a simaler formula each episode but overall is a happy and pleasent show with some decent characters and writing

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XbluannaxNov 20, 2021

Watched every episode and read the books every single episode is emotional and I don’t want it to ever end.

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