A Fantastic Series: Call the Midwife, Season Two (2013) on DVD and Blu-Ray
Call the Midwife , Season Two Release Date: June 18, 2013 Blu-ray/DVD Overview: Based on the best-selling memoirs by Jennifer Worth, the critically acclaimed BBC series Call the Midwife , which TIME Magazine hails as, “gritty realism,”tells the fascinating story of Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine, Doctor Who , The Woman In Black ), a young midwife in 1950s London's working class East End, as she provides the poorest women with the best possible care. This season continues to follow Jenny and the rest of the Poplar neighborhood’s exceptional midwives and nursing nuns as they face new challenges and traumas, including a strange woman dressed in rags, an abandoned baby, and the introduction of a new pain-killer, gas, which proves such a hit that all the women want some. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now. ...