Call the Midwife

They have pretty much exhausted the entire supply of medical and social emergencies that can possibly befall a pregnant woman, some of them twice over - with nearly all of them happily resolved. So I’ve sort of lost interest in the birth stories. But I do find the portrayal of the British life in the 50s and 60s interesting - especially the colloquialisms of speech and brand names of products that no longer exist.

I suppose the one thing that doesn’t quite ring true about the show is that social ills are almost always resolved in a way designed to appeal to us living in the 21st century rather than in what would actually happen to Brits living in the mid 20th century. Episodes about crime, racism, homosexuality, wife beating, abortion, marital infidelity, child abuse, poverty, and so on all end with the our heroes of Nonatus House taking actions, expressing attitudes, and giving advice that usually very neatly align with what is seen as virtuous and sensible today rather than what would more likely be expressed in London in the 1950s and 60s.