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All of this!

I was inordinately happy to see that the actor playing Billy the desk sergeant finally got into the opening credits this season 😄

Paramitch, I’m with ya on Boyd Holbrook 😍😍😍

Innnnnteresting!

The Halal/Haram baseball caps that Kamran and Bruno put on really made me laugh 😄 I enjoyed the episode. Love Iman Vellani - I often feel motherly when a character/actor is of a similar age to my own children 😄 And I just love her parents; the reveal scene was funny, especially when she sussed out that the family already knew. I do think that many of the Marvel Disney+ shows could benefit from a couple more episodes each. I felt the same way about Hawkeye and Moon Knight…it’s one thing to unnecessarily pad episodes, like the Netflix Marvel shows, but another thing altogether to have so few episodes that things can feel a little rushed. I’m glad that the Disney+ Star Wars seasons are a little longer (well, Mandalorian at least - I didn’t watch Obi-Wan and was underwhelmed by the Mando-free Boba Fett eps 😄).

Anybody else spot the Trust-a-Bro moving van from Hawkeye in the end credits? 😄

Cherry Coke was the 💣 I remember going on a school trip to Florida in January 1986, when I was in grade 10, and drinking it at Epcot Centre 😄

Yeah, I thought we would see at least one Spike-from-Degrassi hairstyle!

My husband, who is very bad at recognizing actors’ faces, was watching an ep and he said to me, “I don’t think it’s him but he looks like the guy from Free Guy” and I said, “um yeah, that’s Joe Keery, and yes he was in Free Guy 🤦🏽‍♀️😄” And then I had to explain the connection between Joe Keery and Shawn Levy 😄

Heh. Shipper or noromo? 😄

Nashville, maybe you mean Gen X, not Gen Z? I was only a year older in 1986 than Mike and his friends, and I remember many kids my age (incl myself) being quite naive and young for our ages, but just as many were much more forward and mature. I know several of my classmates had long-term (well, long-term for teenagers) boyfriends and girlfriends, and there were certainly a few teenage pregnancies in my small-town high school.

Does anyone else notice how green it is in Indiana, in March? The grass is green and the trees are in full spring foliage. I live in southern Ontario 🇨🇦, which is not all that far away from Indiana and I’m sure quite similar in terms of climate, and it’s still pretty friggin cold here at that time of year - and there’s no leaves on the trees either 🥶And never mind just casually going out in a boat to the middle of a lake and diving in - you’d succumb to hypothermia with a quickness!

IIRC very few people had home computers in the mid-80s, and the Internet simply didn’t become widely known until the invention of the web in 1993/94. Yes, people e-mailed and dialed into BBSes before that, but as far as I can recall in the small town that I grew up in, very few would have known anything about the Internet (if that’s even what it was called back then). I mentioned above that I grew up in a small town - it was in rural Ontario, Canada. In 1984, two young siblings (I think they were like nine and 10 yrs old or so) were murdered by a friend of their older brother’s. I remember hearing rumours that he was heavily involved in D&D and that had something to do with why he killed them. In the end, I think it came out that he’d had a psychotic break or something similar - nothing to do with D&D.

The actor playing Eddie may be in his late 20s, but he’s a carbon copy of dozens of boys in my highschool in the mid-1980s. The hair, the jacket, everything! Although I don’t remember D&D being popular at the time, but that may have been due to two kids being murdered in my town in 1984 and the rumour that their killer was heavily into the game.

I can’t watch the show at night before bed. I made the mistake of doing that on Saturday and had nightmares that night - my husband had to shake me awake because I was trying to scream in my sleep 😳

I love her, too ❤️ The character has really come into her own over the last couple of seasons after being so nervous when she first went to Nonnatus.

And I would have loved to see the kiddies examining their dad. Stephen McGann seems to have a real connection with little children.

I really dislike that PBS cuts so much. The show ended at 8.54 pm tonight, leaving a full six minutes before the start of the next one. Why couldn’t they leave some of those scenes in? I envisioned a couple of the sisters and midwives helping to finish decorating the nursery, so I’m glad to know that Fred did it!

I’m fairly sure that Violet’s dress shop is just on the other side of the train underpass which is a few steps away from Nonnatus House. I don’t know where their confectionery shop is, though. The little house where Tom and Barbara used to live is quite close to Nonnatus IIRC, perhaps even across the road? I don’t know where the surgery/maternity home is, though, and I’m curious to know the location of the community centre.

Aha! I knew that sounded familiar, because I had read on Wikipedia that Helen George herself had cholestasis during her first pregnancy.

Thanks! 👍🏼

There was a random scene of him in a neighbourhood café doing some paperwork, and chatting with Violet (who had popped in to buy iced buns) about writing to Trixie while she was out of town. In which episode did Sister Frances deliver Dean? I can’t remember at all. Was it this season?

Yes, I thought of that as well. My father died a few months before Soul was released, and I wept buckets after watching it…Dad also loved to play the piano, and the lead character reminded me of him in that way.

I thought that Clover/Susie bore more than a passing resemblance to Keeley F*cking Jones from Ted Lasso!

Also, I can’t remember what scene immediately preceded it, but when Lucille and Cyril finally talked about her miscarriage, it was really abrupt, almost like we’d just been dropped right into the middle of the scene.