Call the midwife
For the love of God, Trixie, don’t dawdle. Swallow a handful of those caffeine pills and hop on the first flight to New York – your husband thinks he’s in Call The Mad Men.
The longest-serving nurse at Nonnatus House has collapsed since smoothie husband Matthew announced he was leaving for America to rebuild his fortune, taking his young son Jonty with him.
Trixie (Helen George) stayed at home on Call The Midwife (BBC1), taking sleeping pills to knock herself out and stimulants to wake herself up again. That’s a recipe for disaster, and sure enough, she spilled methylated spirits on her apron before accidentally setting herself on fire.
Luckily, Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) was on hand to put it out, and Brother Geoffrey (Christopher Harper) was on hand for a pep talk. That girl requires a lot of maintenance.
Helen George’s Trixie (pictured) stayed home in Call The Midwife (BBC1)
As this series ends, it’s a pleasure to know that the show has been renewed for another two seasons, at least until 2026.
But when Trixie called Matthew (Olly Rix) to arrange her marriage, he was already in his shirt sleeves in front of a typewriter, with the Manhattan skyline outside his window. “It’s not forever,” she promised. But a rotating lamp, modular furniture, abstract art on the wall… we’ve seen these telltale signs before.
With his slicked-back black hair, Matthew always had a touch of Don Drapers about him. At any moment, a copyist in a sweater will enter the room, pour them both a triple whiskey, and sit on her lap.
As Trixie raced toward the Big Apple, another character burst into the story and, just as quickly, blew up again. Nurse Crane and Miss Higgins (Linda Bassett and Georgie Glen) were darning Cub Scout garters when a knock on the door announced the arrival of Miss H’s backstory.
She has never mentioned this (well, people didn’t like to in those days), but when she was a young woman in India, part of the “fishing fleet” hoping to find a husband, she had an affair with an Indian guy. and she became pregnant. .
Now here was Victor, the son he hadn’t seen since he was a baby, his wife, and his own teenage son. It’s quite something to discover that you have a grandson and that he is a dental student, while you are repairing the elastic of a sock.
Unfortunately, Nurse Crane barely met Higgins’ son when she noticed his swollen ankles. That means one of two things in Call The Midwife: pregnancy or impending death. Poor Victor collapsed during his first outing with his biological mother. They were eating snails by the Thames, if that’s any consolation.
As this series wraps up, it’s a pleasure to know that the show has been renewed for another two seasons, at least until 2026, even if it looks like Trixie will be involved only via a transatlantic phone call for a while.
No other drama possesses such a mix of sentimentality, soap opera and historical consciousness. If we mock, it is with genuine affection: the central characters are lovable and their sorrows and trials have the power to heal us.
All this and a baby was born on bus number 23. What more do you want on a Sunday night?
