Konterr Brilliant and touching

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

irinne-99873 I used to love this show and still like a few characters, but it's becoming so politically correct, I'm starting to hate it. A snow lady, really? And I'm sure that back in the '60's racists were considered ignorant and rude, as this show suggests. You've talked enough about discrimination, you've had a lesbian couple, enough with your progressive agenda already. Not to mention how hard it is to buy the Alexandra-Trixie moment. It was love at first sight, they spend so much time together and all of a sudden she's been wetting her bed for a month because of Trixie.It looks like you've just run out of ideas and are desperately trying to find a plot twist, just like when Trixie outed herself as an alcoholic - that came out of nowhere, just like her breakup with Christopher.

trevorrg Series based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth. It helps us to understand how life was for women in childbirth in the 1950's in the East End of London. It deals with issues like Downs Syndrome, Thalidomide. Polio, Deafness. I find it very enjoyable.

maria-ricci-1983 **UPDATE AFTER SEASON 6: If I could mark 11 stars, that would be it. The episodes about the Thalidomide children were hard but very well focused and treated. I am intrigued at how they film the scenes with just born babies in the very hands of the actors, with wide shots, not just close-ups. Call the Midwife is a most humanistic show indeed, focused on believable, realistic positive values. In a time when humanism seems to be disgraced and devalued everywhere, it is most welcome in my screen.***This show is extraordinary.It portrays so vividly the changes of an era in Great Britain, when the latter half of the 20th century blasted into people's daily lives at poor East End London, with all its hopes, marvels, progress, and shifts from a traditional to a modern lifestyle.The performances are brilliant; the characters are as lovable as well-written; the atmosphere is perfectly recreated, and though quite serious health and social issues are crudely shown along the episodes, the tone is always permeated with hope, love and joy of living.We do not come from a Christian upbringing, and I am not a Catholic, but I strongly sympathize with the humanistic and sensible approach of Nonnatus House's team of nuns and midwives, where tolerance, acceptance and care for life ranks higher than dogma or empty beliefs.It is very hard to write a really deep, philosophical and poetic show while maintaining a light-hearted spirit and lots of humour, and Call the Midwife really makes it in a masterly way.I have to say it gets better and better as the seasons pass, always intertwining the main characters' personal stories and individual cases with relevant and updated issues of public health and bioethics.By the way, the admirable British public health system, which made wonders in the 50s and 60s and promoted equal access to safety, well-being and human development, also becomes a magnificent political statement in our own age, all the more appreciated in a retrospective look.There is nothing to complain about of this show, which exerts an honest, compelling, deeply satisfying magnetism on viewers.For those of us who love motherhood, babies and pregnancies, there is the unique plus of rejoicing at the sight of so many just born babies at the moment of delivery, in a remarkably natural and non-sensationalist feat of cinematography. You can feel the unmistakable miracle of life in each episode, with its sufferings and joys, which is so unusual among a current TV grid full of violence, special effects, overt sex, glorified evil and frenzied action.Kudos to BBC! Yes, they have made it again, once more!

celestahusted I remember first coming across this show and skipping it over many times before I finally watched the first episode, and from the first few minutes it pulled me in and I watched the first season all in one day.For those people who are reading this to decide whether they should watch it or not, I ask that you please give this show a chance to become one of your favorites as well!I am not religious, but I find that it does not mater when it comes to this show though there are a lot of religious material in it, I can still find it enjoyable, because the main focus is on the story's of the births, and the family that was created at the Nonnatus house.