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In this episode, two new mums are welcomed into Nonnatus House. Valerie has to deal with a shocking case that arrives unexpectedly, while the other midwives must take on a complicated multiple birth case.
Lucille helps elderly hoarder Clarice Millgrove who is struggling to keep her independence. Sister Hilda and the team work hard to help a Ghanaian family with an undiagnosed illness.
Valerie helps a struggling mother accept her son's birth defect. The Turners oversee a measles vaccination trial at the clinic as the team prepare for the Whitsun bank holiday.
The team try to unite an estranged mother and daughter who are both pregnant. Trixie's friend is devastated to discover she is pregnant.
Trixie cares for a young woman who is diagnosed with an intersex condition, whilst a husband suffers with inexplicable pains similar to his wife's pregnancy symptoms.
Mother Mildred returns and helps a docker family tackle end-stage pneumoconiosis. Lucille cares for an unmarried teenage mother who wants to keep her baby.
Drama based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth about midwifery and family life in London's East End during the 1950s.
Sister Hilda digs deep to give her terminally-ill patient her final wish whilst the Turners must prepare to say goodbye to May. Fred and Reggie are keeping secrets from each other.
Christmas 1963 sees the midwives face the challenge of the coldest winter for 300 years. Battling snow, ice and power cuts, the midwives strive to provide the best possible care for their patients.
As Christmas approaches, a bout of influenza sweeps through both Nonnatus House and the Turner family. When Mother Mildred declares that God is calling her to set up a branch house in the Outer Hebrides, it seems an ideal opportunity for the nuns and midwives to convalesce in the bracing Scottish air. As they recover, they will also be able to help the island, where there is a nursing and doctor shortage. Sister Monica Joan associates the Outer Hebrides with St Eustace's White Stag, a symbol of Christ, and is thrilled at the idea of travelling there. However, she soon discovers to her annoyance that she is being left behind with Sister Hilda and Sister Frances. Within a week, Dr Turner, Shelagh, Mother Mildred, Trixie, Sister Julienne, Valerie and Lucille set off on their journey to the Outer Hebrides, where they are to stay in a freezing cold converted church.
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Cast & Crew
Nurse Valerie Dyer
Nurse Lucille Anderson
Sister Frances
Sister Hilda
Sister Julienne
Miss Higgins
Critic Reviews for Call the Midwife Season 8
All Critics (6) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (1)
The period drama has become such a festive TV tradition that reviewing it feels almost churlish - like reviewing my grandma's Christmas card.
This was a return to form: an absorbingly paced, perfectly judged slice of Sunday-night pleasure.
Although you know full well it deals in schmaltz and shameless heartstring-pulling, Call the Midwife exerts a strange power.
Would that the dialogue and characters enjoyed the same loving attention as the preggers ladies or the props.
Now in its latest season, Call The Midwife is a well-oiled machine. It's part Pollyanna, part Shortland Street and part Dr Phil.
The toasty, Victoria Wood-style humour of Call the Midwife was as ever balanced by a clear-eyed look at the tougher side of life for women of the time.
Audience Reviews for Call the Midwife: Season 8
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Sep 22, 2019Season 8 was horrific. I used to love the show when it was based upon Jenny Lee's true memoirs, but season 8 descended into pure social justice swill. It showed midwives forcibly removed elderly patients from their homes in the name of the law and helping young girls to leave their families by offering them government welfare. To make it worse, the season focused heavily on the horrors of abortion, only to come to the conclusion, in the last 5 minutes of the final episode, that the act of murdering babies and destroying lives would somehow be made better if it were legalized by the government. And it even showed the abortionist/murderess in a forgiving light. I'm disgusted. Never watching the show again.
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