SERIES 9, EPISODE 2
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I enjoyed Series 9, Episode 2 of ‘Call the Midwife’ when I saw it on BBC iPlayer on the 12th of January 2020! It has some very good emotional character drama with the two certain subplots featured in it.
This included a relationship between a mother and her expectant daughter as well as a troubling journey for an expectant prostitute. There’s also a blossoming romance that may end a bit too soon.
The episode has our characters surviving Lent before it comes to Mother’s Day. It was amusing to see the various characters coping with Lent such as Trixie and Valerie giving up smoking their ciggies.
There’s also the Buckles avoiding eating cake. I know how they feel. I would struggle coping through Lent myself. It’s hard! The Vicar of Dibley had the same problem avoiding eating chocolate for Lent. 😀
It turns out that a thief has been pinching milk recently. Cliff Parisi as Fred Buckle and Judy Parfitt as Sister Monica Joan uncover the milk culprit and it turns out to be Georgia Henshaw as Tina Atkins. 😐
Tina happens to be an expectant woman who is actually a glamorous prostitute. She also had two children that she gave away. It was very intriguing how the plot unravelled with Georgia’s backstory.
Jenny Agutter as Sister Julienne is the one who has the most interaction with Tina Atkins in the episode. She encourages Tina to attend the local clinic for her needs concerning her upcoming child.
She also tries to persuade Tina from preventing her two children getting adopted. Tina isn’t really a willing mother as she’d rather have her children adopted instead. She also has an accident in the story.
The accident causes her upcoming baby not to be born. I liked that scene between Sister Julienne and Sister Monica Joan towards the episode’s end. Sister Julienne is very downhearted at this point.
She believes to have failed in her duties to encourage Tina to have back her children and they wanted their mother back. Sister Monica Joan gives Sister Julienne some really encouraging words. 🙂
It’s a nice scene between the two characters. It goes to show that Sister Monica Joan isn’t simply a dotty eccentric as she is sometimes often portrayed in some of the early ‘Call the Midwife’ episodes.
I also liked the subplot that featured Carly Bawden as Laverne Bulmer with her mother Amanda Root as Florrie Watkins. I have seen Amanda Root before in the 1995 BBC TV production of ‘Persuasion’. 🙂
She’s also been in the ‘Doctor Who’ audio drama by Big Finish called ‘The Girl Who Never Was’ with Paul McGann and India Fisher. I was delighted to see her appear in this ‘Call the Midwife’ episode. 🙂
It seems that Florrie might be losing her memory. But as Stephen McGann as Dr. Turner uncovers, it turns out Florrie is having some kind of disease connected to her liver. I found that unusual to learn.
Thankfully it all works out fine in the end. I’m pleased that Florrie was there to support her daughter Laverne when she was having her baby. The delivery of the baby was really successful in the end too.
As I’ve indicated, there’s a nice little romance story going on between Trevor Cooper as Sergeant Woolf and Georgie Glen as Miss Higgins. It did sort-of start at the conclusion of Series 8, Episode 8. 🙂
Unfortunately, Woolf has a heart attack in the episode. This was after he attended to Laverne’s little daughter who got locked inside the house once Florrie had been really forgetful and left her inside. 😦
Woolf gets hospitalised and it later turns out he may not be able to perform his regular police duties anymore. He decides to end his relationship with Miss Higgins there and then. It clearly upsets her. 😦
I wasn’t sure how this would be resolved. It’d be nice if Woolf and Miss Higgins got back together, although as far as I’m concerned, Trevor Cooper hasn’t returned to ‘Call the Midwife’ in Series 10. 😐
Series 9, Episode 2 is a pretty good ‘Call the Midwife’ episode to watch. I enjoyed the drama and interaction between the characters. There were also lots of funny moments featured in the episode.
This is especially when the characters were giving up for Lent. The moment where Fred was eating a special cake and Violet caught him in the night was funny. This is a very satisfying episode indeed. 😀
‘Series 9, Episode 2’ rating – 8/10
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