Season 4 – Call the Midwife

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David F @RT34372367 Dec 23, 2024 Poor old Stephen or Mark McGann has the most thankless of roles, despite being married to the showrunner. A baby comes in with broken bones and he calls the NSPCC instead of making the obvious diagnosis of brittle bone disease. A while later, he's prescribing a wonder drug that can deal with morning sickness. He puffs away like a chimney throughout his working day, then at night, goes through a theatrical enactment of what a ten year-old might imagine PTSD to be like. Still, he's supposedly dishy and managed to marry the best-looking nun, so good for him. See more D L @DaturaDreamer Jan 12, 2024 Love this show… it can be a bit pollyannaish, everyone is so nice and polite etc etc but still good See more Jan 27, 2019 It’s a mark of the consistent high quality of the writing in Call The Midwife that all of the characters feel like friends after just a couple of episodes. This facet of the show matters at the outset of Series Four, in which two new characters arrive at Nonnatus House to take up positions as nurses – one, Barbara Gilbert (Charlotte Christie), a junior; and the other, Phyllis Crane (Linda Bassett) an overbearing senior whose attitude instantly puts the sisters’ noses out of joint. As is always the case with this story, the series then develops to tackle some of the toughest themes the society of the time could throw at its characters, including extreme poverty, broken relationships, homosexuality, prostitution, religious sects, migrants, cancer, alcoholism and medical scandals. That lot should be enough to depress any viewer, but the phenomenal dialogue – clever, witty, gentle, incisive, heartbreaking – and the fact that all of the protagonists are folks called to care for others, who all have a genuinely decent core, means that some brutal content is confronted and dealt with in a convincing, satisfying and generally entertaining way. Inferences to the period in which the drama is set and what really happened in run-down parts of London in the Fifties also weigh heavily on the narrative, setting up what is to follow in Season Five. See more Mar 25, 2018 Must they have added the gay focus? See more Jun 5, 2015 the screaming women show another fine BBC production See more Read all reviews

Call the Midwife — Season 4

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