Series 2 has started on PBS tonight. Anyone else watching? Tonight’s episode had everything I like about this show. Joy mixed with sadness mixed tragedy mixed with hope (granted tonight’s ending was pretty uplifting). And I’m looking forward to seeing Chummy balance married life with a very demanding career. I notice PBS got this on the air alot sooner after it’s UK broadcast than they do Downton Abbey, but then CtM doesn’t need reediting since the BBC doesn’t air commercials.
I watched this for a while last season but had to bail. There is some joy, but you can count on the sadness/tragedy, too, and I just couldn’t take it. Every episode had me sobbing at some point. Even over the happy stuff, like the old veteran who got relocated and eventually died. The series is excellent, good characters, good dialogue, great plots, beautifully shot, love the backgrounds, sets and the time period… it’s a fabulous program if you’re made of sterner stuff than I.
Tonight’s episode was really sad. The couple so poor that they almost had to stick their dead newborn in a random woman’s coffin? :eek: I wonder what exactly Chummy will be doing as a missionary in Sierra Leone? Would she be a nurse over there too, or some kind of teacher?
Why was Jane at St Gideon’s? She doesn’t seem to have any physical or mental disabilities. Nuns practicing euthanasia is grim even for this show, but at least that was in the past even in the '50s. And the woman in the green sweater; talk about being a cunt.
Wanted to watch tonight (I have Spina Bifida), but my PBS channel won’t come in!:mad:
There was the fund-raising auction thing - TelAuc -on my PBS channel. It’s too late now, but they may have delayed their regular programs until later in the evening.
Got to watch tonight. Very interesting (though unsurprising) that the mother was devasted by the child’s disability.
Question: The show is not set in the present-day correct?
Crikey, you don’t think we’re that backward in the UK, do you?!
You can watch it on PBS.Org.
StG
I just watched S1 and started watching S2 in real time, and every single week there’s something that makes me tear up. It’s not always baby-related – usually it’s something involving the midwives or the nuns.
This week it was the young man at the home for people with disabilities, talking about the nearby bakery, and the free biscuits. “We get the broken ones.” 
And baby’s father, deciding without saying anything, that his boy was going to have as much as was in his power to give. And “I know my Ruby”.
I’m not nuts about Jenny though. She’s not nearly as interesting as the other women.
She’s seriously hot though 
I wonder if her character is less interesting because the original books were written by her (Jennifer Worth), so her stories and character embellishments are based on observations of others rather than herself. She’s the narrator, rather than the focus, of the stories.
Maybe that’s it. The episodes that focus on her are the least interesting to me. She’s just too perfect, even when she messes up, like the way she reacted to the baby with spina bifida.
Well, I knew sooner or later the show would deal with abortion. Intercutting the abortion itself with Trixie’s manicure was an interesting choice. Very unsettling. I thought the NHS already covered birth control at this point, especially since Trixe was able to give that Swedish girl a box of condoms. Then again she did say she pulled some strings and they are probally “For Disease Prevention Only”.
And ya know, if the family had adequate housing in the first place, mom might not have been so desperate. They needed help, not warnings. Same as it ever was.
I didn’t like the baby being left in the hallway, with rats about. I’m not judging the mom – I’m judging the writers. That wasn’t necessary.
What’s up with the doctor? Is he married? I see he has a son, but I haven’t seen a wife.
He’s a widower. As for the housing thing; that’s exactly the same kind of logic you’d expect from a government agency even today.
Oh good. I’m looking forward to seeing how this plays out. She thinks she’s missing out, and she is, but she might not really need what she’s missing.
I don’t know how old she is – early to mid twenties, maybe? It makes me wonder about the wisdom of allowing someone to choose that life when they’re so young.
Being Catholic, I don’t know much about Anglican nuns, but I can tell you that Catholic nuns take vows in several stages, First for a year as a postulant. If, after that year, she still feels called to be a nun, she enters her Novitiate, another year-long term. After that she takes a three-year vow, which she then renews for another two years. Only after all seven years does she take her final vows. And of course, she’s free to leave at any time. Formation Process.
StG
I got hooked on this series last week–watched Season one, and I’ve started on Season two. I like it overall. Don’t like Jenny (stop moaning about, dearie–pull your head out of you arse and quit falling for unavailable guys), but I like the others well enough. Listening to the accents though sometimes feels like translating another language, so I’m afraid I miss a bit here and there.
phall0106 - I watch with the closed captioning on. It helps.
StG