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[meganbmoore]

Call the Midwife: Christmas Special: Simultaneously thoroughly heartbreaking and uplifting. It's unlikely to have any repercussions on the series as a whole, but is a very good standalone episode. One of the main plotlines adapts one of the most heartbreaking and traumatic stories from Worth's memoir, but the adaptation thankfully stomps on your

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[sakuracorr]

How is Call the Midwife? It's something my mom keeps telling me to check out, but I haven't heard any other opinions on it overall.

[meganbmoore]

I like it a lot. It's mostly about the relationships between the girls and the nuns and life in the east end in the 50s, but there's also some fairly graphic depiction and description of medical practices at the times. Vanessa Redgrave also quotes from the memoir it's based on every episode as narrator, which I think adds a lot to it.