About to expire from exhaustion. Haven't had the chance to watch any new movies for months. Weeks of literary festivals are fun to experience but draining to organize, is what I'm saying.

So, in brevity.

( Spoilers thought this was one overtly Dickensian episode )

Still frightfully busy, still briefly online, couldn't watch the latest Midwives until now.

( Spoilers felt a distinct whiff of Larkin in this episode )

Due to living through some incredibly busy weeks right now (not in a bad way, just in a "can only get online very briefly a few times" way), I didn't have a chance to catch the latest tale of midwives and their patients until now.

( Spoilers are all about fear and dealing with same )

In which we get a neat reminder of 60s space exploration, and Fred is the best why I realise the Doylist reason for Trixie’s storyline.

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In which reality ensues, and our heroines try their best to cope.

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Given this is the second time Narrator Old Jenny mentions it's 1963 and brings up what a magical moment it was, what are the odds she - or someone else will quote Philip Larkin before the season is over? (And/or the end of the Chatterley ban, and the Beatles' first LP.)

On to the episode proper.

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Nope, am still in ignorance of the Christmas Special, though I did have a chance to watch the first episode of the new season.

( Welcome back, Midwives! )

Well, I hope to eventually get to see the Christmas Special, for starters. In recent years, Amazon put it up a day after broadcast, ditto for the regular episodes but not this year, for some mysterious reason, at least not for us Germans. Alas ( Read more... )

1. Norma Bates (Bates Motel version ( Read more... )

The things you learn: seems Samantha Bee of tv comedy fame is a Call The Midwife fan. A woman of taste, which is not new.:) As the unspeakable creature in the White House brings us closer to WWWIII by the tweet and finds condemming Nazis as Nazis too much of an effort, I can see why watching CdM is a good way to maintain sanity ( Read more... )