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      Season 4 – Call the Midwife

      2015 Drama List
      100% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 96% 50+ Ratings Audience Score Adapted by Heidi Thomas from the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, this drama series is a moving, funny, colorful look at midwifery and family in 1950s East End London. It follows newly qualified midwife Jenny, who joins an eccentric, lovable community of nuns who are nurses at Nonnatus House. Jenny is surprised to find herself at a convent -- she thought she was being sent to a small private hospital -- and is initially daunted by her surroundings, most notably the formidable Sister Evangelina and the unconventional Sister Monica Joan. But Jenny gradually begins to find her way and develops incredible friendships among the nurses, as they are drawn into the lives and homes of the women and families they treat. Read More Read Less Watch on Vudu Premiered Mar 30 Buy Now

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      Episode 1 Aired Jan 18, 2015 Nurse Barbara Gilbert helps a new mother overcome difficulties; Trixie becomes emotionally drained by a case; Sister Evangelina agrees to undergo testing for abdominal pain. Details Episode 2 Aired Jan 25, 2015 Barbara faces her most challenging case to date when she treats a first-time mother whose birth does not go according to plan. Details Episode 3 Aired Feb 1, 2015 A new mother's life is turned upside-down when her husband is arrested for gross indecency; Nurse Crane tries to help a malnourished pregnant woman; Tom asks Trixie to oversee an official church duty. Details Episode 4 Aired Feb 8, 2015 Sister Winifred cares for a pregnant prostitute; Trixie and Tom argue after Tom's meeting with the bishop. Details Episode 5 Aired Feb 15, 2015 Sister Julienne's faith is challenged when a mother refuses medicine for her newborn baby. Details Episode 6 Aired Feb 22, 2015 A young diabetic girl faces heartbreak when she becomes pregnant. Details Episode 7 Aired Mar 1, 2015 Two school friends are reunited and their lives become intertwined in the most unexpected way. Details Episode 8 Aired Mar 8, 2015 Trixie and Sister Mary Cynthia support a deaf mother-to-be, while a case of morning sickness proves more serious than initially suspected; Fred's daughter is less than delighted about his forthcoming wedding. Details

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      Sarene Leeds Entertainment Weekly There's something unique in the way the British drama Call the Midwife,... can make us feel so warm and fuzzy inside with its characters' familiar maternal presence, but [also] leave us gutted by the harsh realities of London's East End in 1960. Sep 28, 2018 Full Review Allison Keene Collider The show is never saccharine or manipulative, it just tells great stories in a fully-realized world. And, often, the culmination of its tales is truly beautiful. Rated: 4/5 Sep 28, 2018 Full Review Anne Cohen Refinery29 The show compellingly tackles such tough subjects as extreme poverty, old age, disease, homosexuality, postpartum depression, alcoholism, faith, death, sexual assault, friendship, and as the narrator reminds us (a lot), love. Jun 28, 2017 Full Review J.M. Suarez PopMatters The series is often moving without ever being manipulative; no easy feat, yet one that it manages to achieve episode after episode. Rated: 7/10 May 29, 2015 Full Review Read all reviews

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      D L Love this show… it can be a bit pollyannaish, everyone is so nice and polite etc etc but still good Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/24 Full Review Bla M How is that even possible? How can a show even be good after the lead has left the show? Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/16/22 Full Review simonomis Even after Jenny's era - this show is one of the finest gems on TV! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/30/22 Full Review Audience Member It’s a mark of the consistent high quality of the writing in Call The Midwife that all of the characters feel like friends after just a couple of episodes. This facet of the show matters at the outset of Series Four, in which two new characters arrive at Nonnatus House to take up positions as nurses – one, Barbara Gilbert (Charlotte Christie), a junior; and the other, Phyllis Crane (Linda Bassett) an overbearing senior whose attitude instantly puts the sisters’ noses out of joint. As is always the case with this story, the series then develops to tackle some of the toughest themes the society of the time could throw at its characters, including extreme poverty, broken relationships, homosexuality, prostitution, religious sects, migrants, cancer, alcoholism and medical scandals. That lot should be enough to depress any viewer, but the phenomenal dialogue – clever, witty, gentle, incisive, heartbreaking – and the fact that all of the protagonists are folks called to care for others, who all have a genuinely decent core, means that some brutal content is confronted and dealt with in a convincing, satisfying and generally entertaining way. Inferences to the period in which the drama is set and what really happened in run-down parts of London in the Fifties also weigh heavily on the narrative, setting up what is to follow in Season Five. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Must they have added the gay focus? Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member the screaming women show another fine BBC production Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

      Season Info

      Director
      Juliet May, Darcia Martin, Dominic Leclerc, Amy Neil, Thaddeus O'Sullivan
      Screenwriter
      Heidi Thomas, Harriet Warner, Carolyn Bonnyman, Damian Wayling
      Network
      BBC
      Rating
      TV-14
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English (United Kingdom)
      Release Date
      Jan 18, 2015
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