Call the Midwife (TV Series) Episode #3.8 (2014) User Reviews

What an excellent show

[ibegeorgeus · 10/10 · 11 May 2014]

This show is one of the best that has ever come out of the UK.. In fact from anywhere. BBC to thank, and take a bow. It is marvellously cast, with great production and direction and some of the birth scenes are second to none, and skilfully done. The stories are a mix of historically correct facts, (birth of the national health service, and the way that life existed, in that age), sadness, happiness, humorous anecdotes, dated colour predeceases, difficult living conditions, during and after the war, personal lives, and true to life experiences. The series are cast with wonderful actors, who all support each others work. The stories are exceptionally, well written and adapted from a book by a British Midwife My wife and I ( both British, of course) started to watch the first one, on PBS, thinking that it would be, a show for women, but were pleasantly surprised, and have been glued to the TV screen, ever since. We also obtained the DVD of each series, from the local library. Each new episode, we expect will not be as good, we think, but are pleasantly surprised, that the standard does not slip, like other popular shows that eventually run out of ideas Many Americans, have approached us to say how Britain produces, great shows like this, while America fails so to do.

Shoud've been the end

[studioAT · 7/10 · 30 May 2017]

This show was based around the memoirs of Jenny Lee, so surely when Jessica Raine who plays Jenny in the TV show which is based on those memoirs decided to leave surely that was the end of the show? Clearly not.

Now at the time I was happy for this show to continue regardless of this fact, as I'm sure were the BBC, but now in hindsight I realise that this should have been the final episode, it's not been the same since.

Jessica Raine brought so much to the show, and it was during this period that it has its strongest cast.

It's only after the peak that you notice the decline I guess.