Call the Midwife Christmas special episode review

Call the Midwife Holiday Marathon aired on your local PBS channel on Christmas Day with the holiday episodes from seasons 8, 9, 10, and 11, as well as the brand-new 2022 holiday episode. On pbs.org and the PBS App, all five episodes will be accessible for streaming. From December 25 until January 24, 2023, all five specials will be accessible for free streaming.

Following the events of season 11, the Call the Midwife Christmas Special takes place in December 1967 and depicts Poplar residents getting ready for the holidays. We go over where you may watch the Call the Midwife Christmas Special online where you are, promising both heartwarming and intensely upsetting scenes.

Liz White’s Rhoda Mullucks, the first patient to join the new maternity unit, delighted the midwives. However, she is particularly on edge after giving birth to a child with limb defects the last time. While doing so, Nurse Crane (Linda Bassett) assists a lady who has just been released from prison and plans to raise her unborn kid by herself.

As usual, the BBC’s historical drama airs on BBC One in the UK. On Christmas Day, December 25, at 7.55 PM GMT, you may watch the Call the Midwife Christmas Special, which has a running time of one hour and thirty minutes.

Call the Midwife may be streamed on BBC iPlayer(opens in new tab) across a variety of devices if you cannot access the free-to-air channel on linear TV. The creation of a BBC account is free. You only need a valid TV license, an email address, and a UK postcode (such as B1A 1AA).

Call the Midwife, Christmas Special episode review

The British television industry’s insistently sticking to its cherished Christmas TV schedules strikes one as wonderfully stoic. Strictly, EastEnders, Mrs. Brown’s Boys, and Call the Midwife will all be on BBC One on December 25. You’ll get what you’re given, so be quiet and appreciative. There is no place for compromise, just like each family’s standards on when to open gifts (morning, indeed, you afternoon monsters).

There are far worse customs than Call the Midwife. That has been on television since December 1967. Yet has only now begun to feel like it has been around for that long.

The focus is on a primary pregnant woman, a pregnant b-side character. What the nuns are up to, what the nun-midwives are up to, what the non-nun midwives are up to, and what Fred at the shop is up to. As usual, it juggles several storylines of varying degrees of importance. Before realizing that some were involved in the devastating train catastrophe that concluded season 11, Fred was poring over the records and attempting to figure out why there had been so many defaulters on the Christmas saving program. 

In contrast to Fred’s frantic search for performers for his program as if he were 1960s Simon Cowell, there is the more well-known profession of midwifery and caring for women. When Cindy, a pregnant woman, gets released from Holloway jail, she discovers that her boyfriend has left their apartment, leaving just a court summons in his place.

The new resident is also less than willing to assist Cindy. Cindy finds herself living in squalid, slum-like quarters before being kicked out when the tough-as-nails landlady discovers Cindy is farther along than she claimed to be. Of course, she eventually finds herself in Nonnatus House’s custody.

Cindy’s narrative revolves around paperwork, bureaucracy, and what it’s like to establish your existence when you were raised outside the system. If it doesn’t sound like high drama, that’s where this series’ sly majesty and experience come into play because it is simultaneously rousing, moving, and irritating. The same is true for Rhoda, who is currently expecting her fourth child after her third child, Susan, was born with thalidomide-affected limbs (we last met her in season six, when Susan was 18 months old).

In addition to debating the amount of compensation to accept—the wealthier families want to demand more. While Bernie, her father, is struggling to find work at the docks and wants any assistance they can get right away—Susan is also having difficulties in school due to a system that consistently rejects her.

The Mulluck family is stressed out, and it takes their excellent doctor, who has known the family and its history for many years (imagine! ), to recognize when assistance is needed.

The talent show is presented for laughs and with heart, where it all comes together and ties itself up in a celebratory bow. As always, the talent show’s closing message is excellent, and it’s difficult to criticize. The stage is opened up for everyone by Poplartunity Knocks, and a scene with miniature snowmen is particularly moving. Call the Midwife may not be inventing the wheel and maybe a Christmas workhorse, but it excels at what it does.

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— Call the Midwife (@CallTheMidwife1) December 25, 2022

When Will Call the Midwife’s Season 12 Debut?

The 12th season will debut on PBS on March 19, 2023. Every Sunday at 8/7c, new episodes will be broadcast. Until June 6, 2023, every brand-new episode will be accessible for free streaming from the time it airs. Each episode will be available for streaming for PBS Passport subscribers 30 days before the broadcast date.

Where Can I Watch Call the Midwife’s Season 11?

Before its transmission in February 2023, Call the Midwife’s Season 11  will be streamable through PBS Passport in January. Within 30 days of airing, all eight episodes of Season 11 will be freely streamable.