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Call the Midwife
TV Series

Call the Midwife

2012 • Drama, History • 15 Seasons

Woke Score
4.2
out of 10

Series Overview

Based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth; the story follows twenty-two year old Jenny, who in 1957 leaves her comfortable home to become a midwife in London's East End. She is surprised to find that she will be living in a convent: Nonnatus House. Working alongside fellow nurses and the medically-trained nuns, Jenny has her eyes opened to the harsh living conditions of the slums, but she also discovers the warm hearts and the bravery of the mothers. Even after Jenny leaves Nonnatus, she continues to chronicle the lives of the midwives who have become her family.

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Overall Series Review

Call the Midwife is a sentimental period drama that explores the lives of midwives and nuns in London's East End during the mid-20th century. While it began as a grounded look at poverty and medical history, it has increasingly adopted a modern social justice lens in its later seasons. The show frequently highlights systemic racism, class struggles, and LGBTQ+ issues, often framing the past through the sensibilities of the present. However, it stands apart from typical woke media by maintaining a profound respect for religious faith and a consistent celebration of motherhood and the nuclear family. Male characters are generally depicted as competent, kind, and supportive rather than as bumbling idiots or villains of the patriarchy.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics6/10

The narrative increasingly emphasizes racial struggles and systemic bias as the timeline moves into the 1960s. Characters from immigrant backgrounds are often defined by their encounters with British prejudice, turning many plotlines into lessons on intersectional hardship.

Oikophobia4/10

The series critiques the historical British class system and portrays the era before the welfare state as one of cruel neglect. It frames the expansion of the state as the ultimate civilizational triumph over traditional community failures.

Feminism3/10

While the show focuses on female professional independence and reproductive rights, it rejects anti-natalism by centering the beauty of childbirth and motherhood. Men are portrayed as essential, protective, and capable members of the community.

LGBTQ+6/10

The show introduces and centers multiple queer storylines, framing the legal and social norms of the 1950s and 60s as oppressive. It projects modern sexual identity concepts onto the historical setting to critique traditional morality.

Anti-Theism2/10

Christianity is depicted with deep reverence through the characters of the nuns at Nonnatus House. Faith is presented as a source of heroic self-sacrifice, intellectual depth, and a vital foundation for community health.

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