Call The Midwife

It is really remarkable that I had managed to not watch any of Call The Midwife before yesterday, because 1) period drama 2) in a medical setting 3) with an overwhelmingly female cast 4) WITH BONUS NUNS. It is as if the BBC knew me!

I watched five episodes yesterday while knitting - appropriately enough, I worked on an adorable little baby cardigan for the forthcoming child of friends. I fast-forwarded a couple times due to humiliation squick, but never for gore. I do find it absurd that the ACTUAL MEDICAL SHOW had a much less graphic, less upsetting eclampsia storyline than A Show About Pretty People's Problems, but I am also grateful, because I was not in the mood for graphic.

I love Sister Julian and Sister Bernadette, and Miranda Hart is brilliant as the nervous Nurse Camilla "Chummy" Brown. The central character, Nurse Jenny Lee, is a little tediously Mary-Sue-ish in the improbable speed with which she goes from being revolted by the conditions of life in the East End and being a friend to individuals, and a lot tedious in her I LOVE A MAN I CANNOT HAVE backstory, but she's all right.

On the continuum between Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman (protagonist can do no wrong) and Bramwell (protagonist gets hardly anything right), CTM falls more on the Doctor Quinn side, so far, which does make for more restful viewing.

I rate the series an excellent accompaniment to knitting; will watch the rest.