Call The Midwife is BACK, bitches!

I know some of you ladies got a tingle when the late Sister Evangelina would shout and yell.

I mean, the very thought makes me moist....

I want the vicar and the new dentist to slap their cock knobs together.

Didn't the vicar knock up Trixie IRL?

Yes he did, R3.

Mmm, that seed!

The vicar? Oh my -- "But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother."

No, vicar, keep it in me! Load me up!

Is he hotter than the Dishy Vicar on "Keeping Up Appearances?"

I have the graxy! Is there any Eccles cak?

R8 They're both hot but Pastor Tom makes my no no hole tingle.

Gee, I wonder if sister Monica Joan eats cake and cries about being perceived as useless?

I wonder if the white mustached police sargeant will be imperious and get on Nurse Crane's nerves?

I miss Chummy's husband. He was sort of hot. This guy just looks like a walrus.

I miss Chummy. Why Miranda Hart hasn't returned is beyond me. It's not like she's doing anything interesting.

OK, British friends-- once again I need your help in translating some of the expressions/words that were used in the most recent episodes:

1. Sesbania (part of the name of the strip club)

2. Winceyette

3. Elastic roll-ons

4. Upped sticks

5. Party pieces

6. Doss house

7. Touch line

8. Give me some welly!

Thanks ever so much!

I know a doss house is cheap lodging. A shanty or what we'd know here in big cities as an SRO.

loved Sister Monica Joan in Dolores Claiborne!!

R13, Let Google spear you embarassment, you dumb shite.

[quote] Let Google spear you embarassment

Oh, dear.

I guess Trixie, Sister Monica Joan, Sister Julienne and Sheila don't have other offers. They've been there in pretty much every episode from the beginning.

Trixie was just revealed as a virgin which was a shock to me.

Maybe that's why Trixie snagged Tom's dick in real life!

They’re not trying to hide Trixie’s real life pregnancy in this episode. She’s obviously preggo

I’m so sick of Sister Monica Joan feeling sorry for herself. Bitch, everyone gets old. Deal.

R21, I was only half paying attention and when I saw Trixie getting out of the car wrapped in a red shawl, I thought that a) not period accurate and b) wow, has she put on weight?? And now she has leave to go dry out, so that explains it. Poor girl, she can't catch a break...how many engagements are going to fall through? That dentist needs to shit or get off the pot.

If I was that Pakistani woman, I'd have told that spineless husband to piss off.

Well, Trixie hitting the bottle gives the actress maternity leave. I guess she'll decide whether she wants to leave and pursue her career or stay and always be associated with her character.

I'm glad I found this thread. I've watched the whole series and can't figure out why the dentist never proposed to Trixie. Is it because of his daughter or because she's an alkie or what? And the actress has been obviously pregnant since the beginning of this season--all the funny camera angles and caftan style tops make it obvious. She did have a child at the end of 2017 in real life (with the other cute guy from the show who played the priest). Anyway, I suppose the character is off the show so she can be a mother in real life to her baby.

But why does the dentist never propose? I thought for sure he would in last night's episode.

[quote] She did have a child at the end of 2017 in real life (with the other cute guy from the show who played the priest).

Based on the previews, it looks like he will be back on next week's show.

The woman playing the older Pakistani wife was gorgeous, and I loved the gold necklace she had on in one scene.

It seems very sad this season, what with Trixie's alkieness and what I know (damn spoilers) is about to happen to end the season. A little too much tragedy porn for me.

Haven't seen a lot of Sister Julienne this year.

I like the working class nurse and Lucille is OK but really miss Chummy.

I keep wondering if they are having budget issues because many of these nurses don't stay a whole season.

I want to be in the middle of a circle jerk - the one that the vicar, the dentist and Dr. Turner all splash their loads on.....

I think the series is basically a showcase for young female actresses, with a sprinkling of older female character actresses. All of the previous cast members went on to do more TV in major roles.

Trixie is one of those people on whom a few pounds makes a big difference in the face. She looks odd with a big, round face and needs slimmed down facial contouring to look her best. She looked a little squirrelly this season.

The actress who plays Trixie was obviously pregnant during the filming of this season, hence the fatter face.

NOT BARBARA!

get up barbara we love you

Also, Father Tom needs to be consoled.

In my mouth.

Season 8 started filming last week.

OMG....so sad.

SAD I tell you!

Is Timmy still creepy?

Only to pervy uncles.

R13

1. Sesbania (part of the name of the strip club) - No idea

2. Winceyette -Nope

3. Elastic roll-ons - Stockings or bandages (most likely stockings)

4. Upped sticks - Left, moved away

5. Party pieces - A little trick, skill, or random something that one can do to amuse people. eg pulling a condom out of your eye, or double jointed movements, magic tricks.

6. Doss house - A place for poor people to sleep

7. Touch line - As in Football

8. Give me some welly! - Put some effort into it

Winceyette

I think Trixie is coming back. She had the baby in September. I checked her and her boyfriend, Jack Ashton's IG accounts. Yes, I am pathetic.

Trixie will be back, but Jack Ashton said in an interview he's not sure Tom will be.

Kind of hard to bring him back, unless they were going to make a love triangle between Tom, Trixie and the Hot Dentist.

Now that Tom's single again, maybe Trixie will be coming back to console him. She and the dentist seem to have left it at friends for reasons that were never clear.

Is this season finally over?

R43 One more next week.

R42 The dentist's ex-wife was making it difficult for Trixie to be friends with the dentist's daughter, and eventually banned Trixie from seeing her. (Lame story but an excuse to get Trixie off screen to shit out that kid.)

Like it, as always, but feel that it needs a little something that it's missing.....

Barbara - she dead??

R46 -

I need to comfort Tom. Over and over and over and over

Did anyone say “Barbara, please!” as she was dying?

It should've been Barbara Bennett, from Redbook.

R49 No, but one of the nurses said, "If you need anything, ask Carol Ann!"

They brought her back just to kill her off. They must be mad at her.

No, she wanted to leave. She was only supposed to be in a few episodes this year and then leave, but she asked to be killed off.

CTM seems to be having some budget issues over the last few years. Lots of comings and goings, few times where all the midwives/sisters are in a single episode, more Fred and Violet episodes, always a midwife short, etc. and, I suspect, budget is also the reason Miranda Hart's return fell through.

The PBS episodes have extra footage at the end and some have included funny little extras from the show's bearded (and, one assumes, gay) costume designer. He said they tried to dress Dr Turner in a more handsome, fashionable way this year.

Interesting to hear/see the inspirations for some of the characters (although some were based on British stars of the 60s era that I didn't know or understand).

r54 Meanwhile, PBS always cuts out several scenes in each episode to make room for that crap. Read the recaps at Television Without Pity and you'll see what I mean.

I had no idea.

I don't see why PBS does that or why it runs the show at different times than in the UK. CTM is a popular enough show that it should run at the same time.

And it's not like there still wouldn't be time to spare even without a few edits. But I guess they can't go 60 whole minutes without a money beg.

[quote]Read the recaps at Television Without Pity and you'll see what I mean.

I meant Previously.TV, not TWOP, which is long gone.

Wow, R57. Realized after reading that recap that there's at least one scene I didn't see in this week's episode - not sure if I missed it, or if it was the scene that was edited.

Had no idea they were doing that.

There are usually three or four (at least) scenes that are cut for the PBS broadcast.

why would they do that? Oy vey.

You little bitches shut up and do as you're damn well told!

Barbara was a bore. Tom married her because he could tell she’d never become a pilled up, drunken vicar’s wife like Trixie would have been.

I just can't believe Trixie was still a virgin. Tom's manly tumescence would have poked into her cooter long ago.

Okay, THAT episode was fucking FLAWLESS, from beginning to end.

And Linda Bassett (Phyllis Crane) should get every fucking award they hand out for TV shows.

Eldergays! From the '60s no less! Did anyone else think it was a little too "accepting" of them? Especially having the projectionist working with the young boys?

It wasn't that there wasn't private acceptance back in the day. It simply wasn't discussed openly. And wasn't it still illegal in England in 1963?

And because it wasn't discussed I doubt there would be an issue of him working with young boys. Further, the notion of child abuse was not in everyone's mind like it is now - for straights or gays.

r66 But Dr. Turner clearly new that Donald was gay, so I assume he knew that Stanley was gay, too. And while the doctor might have been quite liberal, I still think it was out of character for there to be no discussion of his son working so closely with him.

Maybe it was assumed that because they were so old and ancient - and living with a baby - that they'd be harmless.

I also think that Dr Turner didn't tell Shelagh - she may have been less understanding than him.

They're a bit posh now compared to the Nonnatus House residents.

Shelagh is a cunt.

Timmy!

I was molested.

[quote] Did anyone else think it was a little too "accepting" of them?

All historical UK dramas rewrite history, making people ok with homosexuality, Black people, Muslims, etc. Look at downtown abbey. Carson and Mrs Hughes, who were horrified by Ethel having sex with a male army officer (and later horrified by her prostitution), were cool with Thomas being gay. So was Lord Whatshisface. IRL in the 1920s gay men in the UK were arrested. Just watch The Naked Civil Servant. Also, Edith bringing an illegitimate child home with her would have been a scandal the family would not recover from. Pregnant rich women were sent to the continent and their children were given to farm families in France, Switzerland, Belgium, etc. A bank check arrived to the families once a year for upkeep. If Edith had insisted on bringing her illegitimate child home with her she would have been considered mentally deranged and sent to a Swiss sanitarium for the rest of her days.

Let’s not even go there with a beautiful young aristocratic woman being attracted to an Irish chauffeur. The Irish were less than human to the British of all classes.

Call the Midwife is right up there with all the other faux progressive historical UK dramas. Gypsies, Hindus, muslims, Caribbeans, gays, Irish, prostitutes, Scandinavian ship captains who pimp out their daughters to the ship’s crew are a-ok with the people in Poplar. (Watch oldie “To Sir With Love” to see how most Cockneys viewed black Caribbeans in the 1960s). If there is racism shown, it’s always only one person who is racist and they change their mind and became best friends with the black person by the end of the episode.

There is no way in hell those two old men would have been holding hands and laying their heads on each other’s shoulders in public, like they did on this week’s episode. The pregnant woman’s father would have told his daughter that his bf was his cousin who had no other family.

Timmy will be 18 one day, bitches!

But for now....Back! Back! Heel!

If you need the attentions of a Turner man, call the doctor!

The actor who plays the doctor is married to the show's creator/exec producer, so I guess he need not worry too much about job security.

He has three brothers who are also actors; I've seen at least two of them in other British TV shows that I watch.

One of his brothers was briefly Dr Who and was in Withnail and I. He’s a creep, too.

Anyone know how long the new season takes to get to Netflix?

I think it comes out in the fall, R77.

r78 You can stream it on the PBS website now.

[quote] You can stream it on the PBS website now

Do it quickly, though, or else it goes behind a paywall and you have to donate.

[quote] Scandinavian ship captains who pimp out their daughters to the ship’s crew are a-ok with the people in Poplar

I thought that captain knocked up his own daughter?

I didn't so much think they were "a-ok" as that the midwives saw their job as just delivering the babies without judgment.

No, one of the ship's crew impregnated the captain's daughter. The captain brought her along so the crew would have a female to fuck. And they were all very jolly about it. Even the daughter.

[quote] Kirsten was a young woman, daughter of a cargo ship captain, who was brought along on the trip solely for the purpose of sexually servicing the crew. Her father told her that there is "no fighting on a ship when the men have a woman they can go to for relief"

Wasn't that captain's daughter story from the book? So it actually happened.

Of course, there are thirsty queens on the DL who think that girl was living the dream, getting gangbanged by 50 Swedish sailors every night.

R83 I read the books and it was in there, I think almost everything in S1 and S2 was in the books, as well as some other things (Cynthia's mental illness, though I don't think it happens for the same reason it did on the show).