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Season 8 – Call the Midwife

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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.
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Alexandra Pollard Independent (UK) The period drama has become such a festive TV tradition that reviewing it feels almost churlish - like reviewing my grandma's Christmas card. Rated: 3/5 Dec 27, 2019 Full Review Michael Hogan Daily Telegraph (UK) This was a return to form: an absorbingly paced, perfectly judged slice of Sunday-night pleasure. Rated: 4/5 Jan 18, 2019 Full Review Carol Midgley Times (UK) Although you know full well it deals in schmaltz and shameless heartstring-pulling, Call the Midwife exerts a strange power. Rated: 4/5 Jan 15, 2019 Full Review Malcolm Hopwood The Post NZ Now in its latest season, Call The Midwife is a well-oiled machine. It's part Pollyanna, part Shortland Street and part Dr Phil. Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Alison Rowat The Herald (Scotland) The toasty, Victoria Wood-style humour of Call the Midwife was as ever balanced by a clear-eyed look at the tougher side of life for women of the time. Rated: 4/5 Jan 15, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I've been watching this show for months now. I like it , but , I wish there a little more focus on the babies , and less on the midwives . Having said that I can't wait to see what happens next to the little Chinese girl. This series reminds me a lot of those Christian shows from the seventies I watched when I was a kid . Shows like " Little House on Prairie " and " The Waltons." I didn't know they made these kinds of shows with a life lesson at every episode. I think I like it. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Season 8 was horrific. I used to love the show when it was based upon Jenny Lee's true memoirs, but season 8 descended into pure social justice swill. It showed midwives forcibly removed elderly patients from their homes in the name of the law and helping young girls to leave their families by offering them government welfare. To make it worse, the season focused heavily on the horrors of abortion, only to come to the conclusion, in the last 5 minutes of the final episode, that the act of murdering babies and destroying lives would somehow be made better if it were legalized by the government. And it even showed the abortionist/murderess in a forgiving light. I'm disgusted. Never watching the show again. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Leonie Elliott

Nurse Lucille Anderson

Linda Bassett

Nurse Phyllis Crane

Helen George

Nurse Beatrix `Trixie' Franklin

Fenella Woolgar

Sister Hilder

Jennifer Kirby

Valerie Dyer

Ella Bruccoleri

Sister Frances

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jan 13, 2019 Nonnatus House welcomes two new nuns; Valerie deals with a shocking case that arrives unexpectedly; the other midwives must handle a complicated multiple birth. Details Episode 2 Aired Jan 20, 2019 Lucille helps elderly hoarder Clarice Millgrove who is struggling to keep her independence; Sister Hilda and the team work hard to help a Ghanaian family with an undiagnosed illness; Violet puts herself forward in the upcoming elections. Details Episode 3 Aired Jan 27, 2019 Valerie tries to help a mother come to terms with her son's birth defect; the Turners organize a measles vaccination trial at the clinic. Details Episode 4 Aired Feb 3, 2019 The team tries to unite an estranged mother and daughter who are both pregnant; Trixie's friend is devastated to discover she is pregnant. Details Episode 5 Aired Feb 10, 2019 Poplar welcomes a new cervical cancer screening clinic to the Institute and Dr Turner, Shelagh and Trixie are pleased to be part of the exciting new venture; the prospect of a new romance for Lucille brightens the mood at Nonnatus House. Details Episode 6 Aired Feb 17, 2019 Nurse Crane's back troubles return with a vengeance; Mother Mildred returns and helps a family tackle end-stage pneumoconiosis; Lucille cares for an unmarried teenage mother who wants to keep her baby. Details Episode 7 Aired Feb 24, 2019 Trixie cares for heavily pregnant Heather Pugh, who learns she has a serious health concern; Mother Mildred decides that Sister Frances is ready to attend her first solo birth; Sister Monica Joan follows Great Britain's Olympic hopes. Details Episode 8 Aired Mar 3, 2019 Sister Hilda digs deep to give a terminally-ill patient her final wish; the Turners prepare to say goodbye to May; Valerie and Trixie testify in court; Fred and Reggie keep secrets from each other. Details

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Season Info

Director
Kate Saxon, Christiana Ebohon Green, Kate Cheeseman, David O'Neill
Executive Producer
Heidi Thomas, Pippa Harris, Ann Tricklebank
Screenwriter
Heidi Thomas, Louise Ironside, Andrea Gibb, Carolyn Bonnyman, Amy Roberts, Debbie O'Malley, Lisa Holdsworth
Network
BBC
Rating
TV-14
Genre
Drama
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Jan 13, 2019
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