Call the Midwife isn’t known for dabbling in mystery, but it tries its hand at it here and pulls it off remarkably well. The show positions the central mother, Roseanne Dawley (Celeste Dodwell), to this week’s main storyline as something of an enigma, hiding secrets and questioning herself at every turn but for reasons we aren’t able to … >
This week’s Call the Midwife aims to be about how the allure of a university education could be derailed by an unexpected pregnancy, while dealing with the simmering tension of Barbara’s relationship with Tom (and her lack of communication with Trixie). The new season’s fourth episode also shows us that there are more cases of babies affected by … >
That any given episode of Call the Midwife will be emotional is a given. This show churns out a resonant tearjerker week after week by both showing life’s cruel realities and allowing for glimpses of hope. But, in this episode, the aim is more to stir up feelings of rage and exasperation, as a young teacher in a relationship … >
If there’s a connective thread between this episode of Call the Midwife and last week’s instalment, it’s that both are concerned with people in difficult and unusual situations having to dig deep for strength. Season 5’s opener told the story of a family encountering the effects of the drug Thalidomide, and here we see a couple struggle to deal … >
Call the Midwife is back for its fifth season – and it’s now set in 1961, so we can expect some of the changing attitudes within society start to seep into the drama. The show immediately has a more modern feel in this premiere episode, with a little bit of Mad Men’s style to the costuming and the feeling … >
BBC One has released a trailer for the new season of Call the Midwife. The drama returns at 8pm on Sunday 17 January on BBC One, following last month’s Christmas special. > Buy the complete Season 1-4 box set on Amazon. In the first of eight new episodes, Easter 1961 is approaching, and for the … >
Picking things up after the more heartbreaking and downbeat end to its fourth season, Call the Midwife returns to BBC One for its annual Christmas special. Like last year’s festive instalment, and many other episodes of the show, it juggles a significant number of storylines. There are probably about five separately identifiable intersecting strands to the episode’s plot, … >
Ahead of the release of the much-anticipated Avengers: Age of Ultron in cinemas on 23 April, we’re taking a look back at Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This week, it’s 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier! The story Captain America, having been frozen at the end of 2011’s The First Avenger, and … >
Like the best episodes of Call the Midwife, Season 4’s finale is at once uplifting and heartbreakingly sad. And, really, if there’s anything the episode is about, it’s how the good always comes with the bad; it’s most explicitly stated in a single, brief conversation between Tom and Trixie: she on the way back from delivering a child, … >
The idea of two babies being accidentally swapped and given to different mothers is a nightmare scenario for new parents and the last thing you’d expect the diligent midwives of Nonnatus House to do. But a water shortage and a fire in the maternity home lead to exactly that happening here, and the weight of the … >