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Call The Midwife Christmas special 2016
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Really enjoying this so far.
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So am I!
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Excellent attention to detail as usual
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Awww so sad
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This show never fails to make me cry .
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This show never fails to make me cry .
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I think it has been great. Moving it to South Africa has created another dynamic.
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I think it has been great. Moving it to South Africa has created another dynamic.
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Didn't work for me at all. Get them back to Poplar pronto!
And virtually no Patsy & Delia! Bloody swizz. |
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That episode was first class drama. It had everything. Even we had a tear in our eyes....
We know this was the time of apartheid and this episode showed just a small flavour of those awful days. It was a beautiful scene, where Tom proposed to Barbara and using a blade of grass as a symbol of engagement. |
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It wasn't a very interesting special. I missed Poplar and the other characters. I hope they never have a special in another country again. It doesn't work well and it left me disappointed.
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Sat down to watch it thinking I was going to hate it.
i well recall how South Africa was then - an uncle married a SA landowner, dreadful dreadful woman - I can remember as a child being speechless about the way she talked about her staff (and I use that word in preference to what she called them) i also recall having the polio on a sugar cube - my dear Mum was astounded that it was an effective vaccine. Well, at 9.30 I was bawling my eyes out - how fantastic were Trixie and all the girls - and what a fab episode. loved loved loved it. |
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I love this show but I didn't like that it was set in another country. If it was a country I was interested in I might have, but I have zero interest in South Africa or its inhabitants. None of them seemed interested in doing anything but popping kids out despite not having enough facilities to look after the ones already there. Never mind Polio, they needed introducing to another medical treatment beginning with P - the Pill!
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Nonatus House has still got our crockery! (Royal Doulton, Reflection pattern)
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I love this show but I didn't like that it was set in another country. If it was a country I was interested in I might have, but I have zero interest in South Africa or its inhabitants. None of them seemed interested in doing anything but popping kids out despite not having enough facilities to look after the ones already there. Never mind Polio, they needed introducing to another medical treatment beginning with P - the Pill!
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Agreed, although some on Twitter are complaining that the storyline showed white people saving black people.
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That aspect made me feel a little uncomfortable too. While I very much enjoy CTM the tone can be quite patronising at the best of times so tonight's ep felt particularly jarring..
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I love this show but I didn't like that it was set in another country. If it was a country I was interested in I might have, but I have zero interest in South Africa or its inhabitants. None of them seemed interested in doing anything but popping kids out despite not having enough facilities to look after the ones already there. Never mind Polio, they needed introducing to another medical treatment beginning with P - the Pill!
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I love this show but I didn't like that it was set in another country. If it was a country I was interested in I might have, but I have zero interest in South Africa or its inhabitants. None of them seemed interested in doing anything but popping kids out despite not having enough facilities to look after the ones already there. Never mind Polio, they needed introducing to another medical treatment beginning with P - the Pill!
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Loved it.
I now understand why they have so many children
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Part of the charm of this programme is the inhabitants of the Poplar estate. Hate these "specials" and this one was no exception.
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I enjoyed it. Rather predictable but still enjoyed it
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Didn't enjoy it at all, in fact eventually switched it off. Nothing like the original series which works very, very well based in Poplar and specials never work well. Everyone trying too hard.
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Didn't enjoy it at all, in fact eventually switched it off. Nothing like the original series which works very, very well based in Poplar and specials never work well. Everyone trying too hard.
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