Saturday, January 23, 2016

Call the Midwife: Season Four 2015


     This series is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth.  In this new season, Sister Evangelina has health problems and the vicar Tom proposes to Trixie.  A family is living in squalor with a ten-year-old in charge.  Sister Evangelina goes on sick leave and a new midwife arrives.  Dysentery spreads through the area and Trixie organizes the Rose of Poplar contest.  Sister Mary Cynthia returns to Nonnatus House.  Phyllis is helping a young pregnant diabetic woman. Two school friends surprisingly rediscover each other in the delivery room.  Trixie and Sister Mary Cynitha help a woman who uses sign language.  During the Christmas season, a measles outbreak occurs.
     I really like this series and especially because realistic actors are used in the roles.  This isn’t a group of models delivering babies in couture gowns.  The situations are interesting and a lot of times complicated.  This is not an easy life for the sisters or the midwives.  4* (I really liked this series)

60 min, TV Series, Drama created by Heidi Thomas with Vanessa Redgrave, Helen George, Jenny Agutter, Laura Main, Judy Parfitt, Cliff Parisi, Stephen McGann, Pam Ferris, Bryony Hannah, Ben Caplan, Victoria Yeates, Emeral Fennell, Miranda Hart, Max Macmillan.

Note:  Imdb 8.4 out of 10, 100% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.8* out of 5* with 508 reviews.
Special Note:  This series is filmed in Kent, Surrey and London, England, UK.  Nonnatus House is named after St. Raymond Nonnatus and Nonnatus is the Latin word for not born.  He was born by Cesarean section and is the patron saint of pregnant women and childbirth.

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