A group from Nonnatus House travels overseas in order to assist a struggling clinic in South Africa.A group from Nonnatus House travels overseas in order to assist a struggling clinic in South Africa.A group from Nonnatus House travels overseas in order to assist a struggling clinic in South Africa.
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- TriviaHelen George (Trixie) and Jack Ashton (Tom) were in a relationship when this episode aired. Later they had a daughter together. In the episode, Trixie gives Tom advice as to how to propose to Barbara, played by Charlotte Ritchie.
- GoofsWhen Phyllis is helping the woman giving birth by the tree she asks her to kneel to facilitate the process, but after she does the camera shows Phyllis talking and the woman appears still standing even though she knelt in the previous take.
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Very contrived
This was a disappointment. I have loved the "Call the Midwife", and I have looked forward to a new season. But this was just too bad.
To send off the characters to a faraway and (supposedly) exciting location, is an old trick to try to vary an old formula. But it almost always does not work. To mention only the most obvious thing: there were no real, believable reason for all these our beloved characters to go away to South Africa. ONE nurse/nun had died. But now, suddenly, almost everybody working in or for Nonnatus house has to go abroad. And nothing is explained, either, about who is going to take care of the Nonnatus house and the rest of the Poplars in the meantime. I mean: even the doctor, the janitor and the clergyman follow the call!
I am still going to try watching the new C.T.M.-episodes, but I feel that my heart has died somehow... :-(
To send off the characters to a faraway and (supposedly) exciting location, is an old trick to try to vary an old formula. But it almost always does not work. To mention only the most obvious thing: there were no real, believable reason for all these our beloved characters to go away to South Africa. ONE nurse/nun had died. But now, suddenly, almost everybody working in or for Nonnatus house has to go abroad. And nothing is explained, either, about who is going to take care of the Nonnatus house and the rest of the Poplars in the meantime. I mean: even the doctor, the janitor and the clergyman follow the call!
I am still going to try watching the new C.T.M.-episodes, but I feel that my heart has died somehow... :-(
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