Call the Midwife: Series 2
Aug. 23rd, 2013 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreReally interesting to watch the second series (and rewatch the first) after reading Worth's memoirs. I was surprised that they adapted some of the stories they did (though pretty much all considerably toned down from the books) but I guess they figured that if they could do the incest episode from the first series and still get renewed, they could get away with anything.
The series is still wonderful and delightful and generally good at being thought provoking without being preachy or turning into a Message show. (I say "generally" because there was the Very Special Disabilities Episode, but pretty much everything in that episode except that subplot was pretty great.)
Also, I surprised myself a bit by how very willing I was to go along with the show's clear desire that I want Sister Bernadette to throw off her habit and run away with the doctor. (Not really a spoiler, as this element was present before the second series.) That plotline actually did a pretty good job of subverting most expectations for that kind of plotline, though.
The series is still wonderful and delightful and generally good at being thought provoking without being preachy or turning into a Message show. (I say "generally" because there was the Very Special Disabilities Episode, but pretty much everything in that episode except that subplot was pretty great.)
Also, I surprised myself a bit by how very willing I was to go along with the show's clear desire that I want Sister Bernadette to throw off her habit and run away with the doctor. (Not really a spoiler, as this element was present before the second series.) That plotline actually did a pretty good job of subverting most expectations for that kind of plotline, though.