misterwillmottumbles replied to your post:pretty sure I just got so stressed out by...
Yikes! What were you watching? Are you okay?
I've been watching Call the Midwife? It's a little formulaic, but not bad for when I am knitting.
Every episode is this... dramatic irony, I guess? I can't imagine they expect the audience to be as surprised as the characters. Basically every episode, a little thing happens near the beginning that somehow causes a crisis later on.Â
For example, there's an old nun with Alzheimer's (or something like that) and she picked up the phone at the beginning of the episode, even though only the on-duty midwives are supposed to, had a funny little conversation with an excited dad-to-be, and even managed to keep herself together to take a message.
HOWEVER the next time she picks up the phone it isn't going to go so well, of course. You spend the episode like "oh no who is going to be left in the lurch to have a baby all alone" and of course it's tied in with the storyline about racial prejudice...