irinne-99873 I used to love this show and still like a few characters, but it's becoming so politically correct, I'm starting to hate it. A snow lady, really? And I'm sure that back in the '60's racists were considered ignorant and rude, as this show suggests. You've talked enough about discrimination, you've had a lesbian couple, enough with your progressive agenda already. Not to mention how hard it is to buy the Alexandra-Trixie moment. It was love at first sight, they spend so much time together and all of a sudden she's been wetting her bed for a month because of Trixie.It looks like you've just run out of ideas and are desperately trying to find a plot twist, just like when Trixie outed herself as an alcoholic - that came out of nowhere, just like her breakup with Christopher.

cosmax10 I love watching this show because I was born in London in 1960 and my brother was born in 1962. My mother had been living in London for about 5 years at the time. I was born in a hospital, and my brother by a midwife and a partially drunk doctor. The midwife was terrible according to my Australian grandmother who was there for his birth, she said it was more primitive than the births in Australia. My brother's birth was difficult, especially for him, the midwife made a mistake in her assumptions. A lot of women did not see a lovely Trixie, or a sympathetic Jenny or even a stern but experienced Sister Evangelina. I am sure that there were many dedicated and wonderful midwives but there was also some terrible ones.

Ersbel Oraph The script is made by some apartment script school, butchering a very readable text. The text is concerned with the woman's situation and welfare back in the 1950s after putting things in context, as the 1960s brought the pill, which increased the well being and the life expectancy of women in that part of the World. The script is concerned with lying and painting a rosy look of the life, long live the concerned leaders! The problems abound at every minute. The lovely scene (in the book) when the author comes to the nuns, is completely changed and the characters are different (in the script). This is what low quality education does: poor script writing is one side effect.Apart from butchering the original text for mysterious reasons that dull the drama and lose the humor, the whole thing can be separated in two: mistakes out of stupidity and mistakes out of kissing behinds. The stupidity is just low quality education. No, the man is teached to hold the woman who is giving birth that particular way from the 2000s, when men assisting at birth has become common. The technique did not exist back in the 1950s. The same way as some of the bleeds shown on screen are the sign of certain death in a few minutes, even in 2010s and in a hospital.The worst part is the rear kissing and the cheap nationalist propaganda, none of which is present in the book. The children with a sweater and no pants are nowhere to be seen. East End is a trendy neighborhood with rich people dressing a la mode. The men is specified in the book several times have nothing to do with the babies beyond the point of conception and the income. In this series they can even be supportive. The author specifies the men were not accepted at births. Tough luck, they are well dressed, well groomed, and ready to support the wife in this parody. The doctors are too expensive in the book, in here they can come with everything to make a small Emergency Room in the bedroom. In the book sometimes there is no running water, the toilets are shared, installed downstairs and to a side of the building. So the stench can be terrible and the hygiene not there. There are lice and other parasites. The children are half naked precisely to avoid changing the diapers. Yet in the screen version one of the local women is shocked by the idea of a child pissing in the waiting room.The actors are of low quality. The script is xenophobic. The East Enders are okay with the hospital, is the Spanish woman who can't even speak English who refuses to go to the hospital. The extras move like drones. The clothes are clean, colorful, and new! So a book that could be considered feminist turns into another romantic 'good old times' story when the women were very energetic after 14 hours of work with half the daily needed calories and who loved to give birth and have lots and lots of children from an early age.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

studioAT Somewhere along the way 'Call the Midwife' has become the nations favourite drama, often toppling Downton in the ratings and earning a reputation as the must watch programme over Christmas.The reason for its success on paper is simple. It features good actors, good story lines and is gentle viewing on a Sunday night. It's not afraid to tackle big issues, but there's always humour along the way.The show has had to change over time, losing its main leading lady in Jessica Raine after series three and then dealing with Miranda Hart's decision to scale back her appearances.The BBC's decision to commission multiple series ahead of time shows how much 'Call the Midwife' has touched the public's heart.