Loading the Dice.....BBC Style

So this weeks "Call the Midwife" was about violence and deception. Keeping quiet or speaking out. Plus a funky vacation. Secrets were told. Secrets were kept.

But they keep loading the dice.

Spoilers follow:


In this episode a street walker is attacked. She is beaten and bitten. It looks like an animal attacked her. One of the midwives comes across her in the street but she refuses to go to the cops. She can't get a soliciting charge.

Then there is a subplot with a baby that won't stop crying. Sister Julienne suggest she take the baby out for a walk in the night air. On the London Docks. Where the Werewolves of London might be stalking. Ok. His hair was perfect. But still don't you think they are loading the dice having a nice respectable lady walking the streets with a pram so she can get attacked. To show what animals men are. You know feminazi stuff. Of course it doesn't end there.

Mousey Sister Mary Cynthia is by far the nicest of all the nuns is called out to an emergency with bimbo bitch boss Nurse Franklin. They have to push the vagina back into to this poor sap who had her baby in secret because of the shame of it. Her mother pretended to be pregnant instead of the unmarried daughter and they tried to deliver in secret and claim grandma was the mother. It was a disaster. Nurse Franklin to the hospital and Sister stayed to clean up so they wouldn't come back to a mess. She stopped to look at the sunrise and pray for the poor girl. And was attacked. Loading the dice. Attacking a nun. This is the 1960's. The Krays would have found the guy that did that and filleted him like a flounder. It was just so unpleasant. Not necessary. It is just as brutal to attack a streetwalker. Why load the dice in such a phony way.

It is just sloppy storytelling. It is cheap and tawdry. Having a nun being attacked. You don't need to load the dice.

The comic relief was that the doctor and his ex-nun wife went on a camping trip and had a bunch of clichéd accidents like the tent falling down. That whole sequence could have been cut and nobody would have missed it. Sometimes the filler is not worth it. They should have done something with the lesbo nurses instead. Maybe have them introduce fish tacos to the Nonnatus House table. That would have been cool.

Still it was a good episode and the fashions and music were fun. Recommended but still watch with a grain of salt. So to speak.