Y’all why aren’t we talking about Call The Midwife??
60s British aesthetics on fleek, women in an often forgotten medical profession, literally every episode passes the bechdel test with ease, there’s like 1 (one) male main character and he never talks down to the women and never questions them, also there’s a whole ep where a POC midwife joins the Gang™️ and when she goes to bed everyone else is like “aight so we all agree we’re gonna beat up anyone who talks shit about her right”. Also there’s a confirmed lesbian couple???? As of the current season they are both alive and happy??? Guys. Dudes. What a time to be alive.
Oooh, I reblogged this earlier but I wanna add – this show is amazing with portraying disability. As in, people with the actual disabilities were cast to play characters who had them*. (A REALLY low bar, I know, but I guess that’s the world we live in.) It’s featured literally more disabled characters than I’ve ever seen on any show, it’s amazing.
(*Apart from the child who plays baby Susan, but I suppose with babies it’s a different case)
Y’all why aren’t we talking about Call The Midwife??
60s British aesthetics on fleek, women in an often forgotten medical profession, literally every episode passes the bechdel test with ease, there’s like 1 (one) male main character and he never talks down to the women and never questions them, also there’s a whole ep where a POC midwife joins the Gang™️ and when she goes to bed everyone else is like “aight so we all agree we’re gonna beat up anyone who talks shit about her right”. Also there’s a confirmed lesbian couple???? As of the current season they are both alive and happy??? Guys. Dudes. What a time to be alive.
1×01 The First One
1×02 The One Where Chummy Joins
1×03 The One With the Cockroaches
1×04 The One With the Babynapping
1×05 The One With the Incest
1×06 The One With Chummy’s Horrible Mother
2×00 The One With the Workhouse Graveyard And The Screaming, PS Merry Christmas
2×01 The One Where Men Are Terrible
2×02 The One Where Something Bad Happens To Cynthia
2×03 The First One With Patsy
2×04 The One Where Poplar is Ableist
2×05 The One With the OH GOD IT’S THE ONE WITH THE ABORTION
2×06 The One With the Tuberculosis
2×07 The One Where Poplar is Racist
2×08 The One Where Turnerdette Happens
3×00 The One With the Wedding
3×01 The One With Princess Margaret
3×02 The One Where Trixie Gets Super Passive-Aggressive
3×03 The One With the Prison
3×04 The One Where Alec Dies
3×05 The One Where It Really, Really Sucks To Be Disabled in the 1950s
3×06 The One With Trixie’s Bad Date
3×07 The One With the Postnatal Psychosis
3×08 The One Where Chummy’s Horrible Mother Dies
4×00 The One With Vanessa Redgrave
4×01 The One Where Barbara Joins
4×02 The One Where Phyllis Joins
4×03 The One Where Poplar is Homophobic
4×04 The One Where Tom and Trixie Break Up
4×05 The One Where Turner Has a Breakdown
4×06 The One With the Diabetic Girl
4×07 The One With the Baby Switch
4×08 The One Where You Think They’ve Done Bury Your Gays But It Turns Out Later They Haven’t
5×00 The One Where Sister MJ Nearly Dies
5×01 The One Where Holy Shit Keep That Guy The Fuck Away From His Disabled Daughter
5×02 The One Where Sister Evangelina Fucks Up
5×03 The One With Typhoid
5×04 The One Where Apparently It’s Okay To Just Not Tell A Woman Her Baby Died
5×05 The One Where People Finally Discover Smoking Is Bad For You
5×06 The One Where Something Even Worse Happens To Cynthia What The Fuck
5×07 The One With the Storm
5×08 The One Where Evangelina Dies
6×00 The One In Africa
6×01 The One Where Shelagh is Pregnant
6×02 The One With the Explosion
6×03 The One With the Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
6×04 The One Where Valerie Joins
6×05 The First One With Reggie
6×06 The One With the Cuban Missile Crisis
6×07 The One Where Phyllis Nearly Kills a Child
6×08 The One With the Barbara-Tom Wedding and the Patsy-Delia Kiss
7×00 The One Where The Baby Looks Dead But It Actually Isn’t
7×01 The One Where Lucille Joins
7×02 The One With The Nasty Racist Mother
7×03 The One Where Everything Is Just Unfathomably Bad
7×04 The One Where Trixie Has Relapsed
7×05 The One With the Leprosy
7×06 The One Where Everyone Has The Worst Fucking Luck Ever
7×07 The One Where Barbara Dies
7×08 The One Where Okay Everyone We’ve Been Through Enough Thanks
Call the Midwife is full of upsetting moments, character deaths, stillborn children, all sorts of things… but honestly I feel like the most upsetting moment across all six years of it is when kindly Sergeant Noakes, a man we’ve known for ages, a man whose wife and child we love, arrests a man for homosexuality with nothing but professional coldness in his eyes.
