Viewers think this week’s Call the Midwife could be the saddest episode yet
The return of an old face and a young man's struggle had fans bawling their eyes out
This week’s episode of Call the Midwife has been called the saddest yet by viewers at home, after a story that saw a young boy left motherless and an old friend trapped in a mental hospital. You know, typically cheery Sunday-evening stuff.
First, fans found their eyes getting damp at the tragic tale of Reggie, a young man with Down’s Syndrome played by Daniel Laurie whose mother died at Mass and left him adrift in the world, presumably bound for an unhappy future in a mental hospital.
Reaction was, shall we say, passionate.
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It's too sad ?? #callthemidwife
— Piera (@pipsoldchap) February 19, 2017
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Call the midwife never fails to make me cry I'm too bloody soft #callthemidwife
— Rory's hammock (@roryhammock) February 19, 2017
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And if that wasn’t enough, as the episode reached its end viewers were treated to the shock reappearance of former midwife-turned nun Sister Mary Cynthia (Bryony Hannah), who had been sectioned in the very hospital Reggie was headed to and was facing the horrors of Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
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Sure, Trixie found some love and Reggie found a new home eventually, but viewers still left the episode feeling pretty traumatised by the whole experience.
In other words, to sum up…
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Call the Midwife continues on BBC1 on Sundays at 8.00pm