Call
The Midwife: Season 2 (2013/BBC Blu-ray)
Picture:
B Sound: B- Extras: C Episodes: B+
Season
2 of Call the Midwife has the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus
House again called to service and provide medical care in the 1950s
to the East End Slums, London's poorest district as we rejoin them
after an interested debut season. The Midwives are the only ones who
help provide free medical services to poorest families with home
visits. Jenny Lee, a young nurse, she helps bring babies into the
world and heal the sick. As the nurses learn in a rapidly
industrializing world they share friendship, hardships, love and
lost.
With
the world modernizing in science, medical techniques, the poorest are
often the last to receive any care or help. The Midwives are group
of young nurses and nuns who struggle for their community to bring
them more modern and sanitary live, but it is always an up hill
battle for them. Led by a determined woman (Jennie Agutter), not
only do they barely receive any supplies but are fighting against a
time when the idea of independent woman was not considered popular as
they make up for vital shortfalls where they can. As the nurses and
nuns try to improve the life of the community, they struggle to find
their own place in society and to bring change to the standards of a
past age.
This
is a great series that showed the struggling lives in London mid-20th
Century with it's poorest class citizen, a historical eye-opener for
the struggling lives not discussed much since (especially since the
1980s) as it follows lives of young women in a time when woman was
seen as a little more than breeding stock for men. In an ever
changing world, the Midwives are able to do something men can't do,
help bring children into the world and become the symbol of strong,
independent woman, and gain the respect community, along with the
drama of both beginning and end of life.
The
1080p 1.78 X 1 digital High Definition image is even better than the
last set and lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo as good as it is going to
get, sporting decent Pro Logic-type surrounds. Extras include
Midwifery and trailers. See the end of the review for more on
the debut season.
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Christmas
Special - The Nuns put on a Christmas play for the community,
but the costumes get ruined can a miracle save the play?
Episode
1 - The nurses learns how to use gas to give pain relief to woman in
labor. But then they have to deal with a case where a woman love her
husband even thought he abuses her and prostitutes her.
2
- Chummy reconsiders her future career. Cynthia delivers a baby, but
when the baby dies prematurely a day later she is blamed and she
loses her confidence as a midwife.
3
- A new nurse arrives and Jenny is sent off to the surgical hospital.
Jenny takes care of Jimmy who then tells her he's about to get
married but still has feelings towards her.
4
- The Midwives must help a couple accept their child when it is born
with deformities.
5
- A family too poor to have another baby considers abortion, but not
only is it highly illegal, it also threatens the life of both mother
and child.
6
- A single pregnant mother must reconcile with her stubborn father on
his deathbed. Sister Bernadette struggles with her feelings toward
Dr. Turner.
7
- Nurse Lee must deal with racial discrimination among woman as
Cynthia helps a woman deal with her returning son from the states.
8
- With the return of Chummy everything seems wonderful, but there is
trouble when she has labor complications. Sister Bernadette makes a
life changing decision.
For
the debut season, read the t3ext at this link:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/11940/Call+The+Midwife:+Season+One+%282012/BBC+
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Ricky Chiang
