S12.E02: Episode 2

[craziness]

Not sure what happened, but the channel listing in my area, for episode 2 had the Sr. Julienne/Lillian storyline and "A surprising pregnancy for one of Dr. Turner's patients leads him to start a campaign to encourage men to use contraception."  There was nothing about this in the episode, even the parts that PBS cut!?!?!  I wonder if that will be in a future episode, or if it will just be cut out.  Anyone know?  Thank you.

[Badger]

1 hour ago, craziness said:

Not sure what happened, but the channel listing in my area, for episode 2 had the Sr. Julienne/Lillian storyline and "A surprising pregnancy for one of Dr. Turner's patients leads him to start a campaign to encourage men to use contraception."  There was nothing about this in the episode, even the parts that PBS cut!?!?!  I wonder if that will be in a future episode, or if it will just be cut out.  Anyone know?  Thank you.

Spoiler

The plotline about encouraging men to use contraception will indeed be part of a later episode.  I think it's episode 5.

 

[J-Man]

IIRC, Chummy's husband stuck around for a few episodes after she left, so maybe they'll do the same with Cyril. And they can certainly have Lucille return to the UK, but end up working somewhere else so she wouldn't make any appearances with the midwife crew.

[natyxg]

On 3/21/2023 at 8:00 PM, Badger said:

Dr. Turner said the kind of breast cancer she had would not have responded to surgery.

I thought that was very weird and maybe a nod to the fact that they're in the 1960s and they might not know enough about it. But inflammatory breast cancer (which she obviously had) is VERY rare and also VERY aggressive, with a very low survival rate (iirc). So of course the breast is removed and fast, I imagine.

Anyway, they kind of turned it around a little towards the end by making it a visit to her family what made Lucille leave instead of something worse and I was glad for that, but man what a depressing story they were giving her up until that point.

[craziness]

Thank you, Badger.

[kwnyc]

21 hours ago, HappyHanna said:

it stands now Cyril either hangs around awkwardly without his wife, or they fire an actor for no fault of his own because his tv wife had other plans for herself. I like Cyril, I want better for him :)  

Shades of Sergeant Noakes! (Come back Chummy...)

[jschoolgirl]

On 3/28/2023 at 5:23 PM, debraran said:

I don't want to spoil the in between things until most get to see what they plan.

Thank you very much!

[cinsays]

On 3/30/2023 at 2:04 PM, jschoolgirl said:

Thank you very much!

yeah, since they have this topic separated by episode, please don't post anything not in this episode.   i like surprises

[BluBarbi98]

On 3/27/2023 at 10:43 AM, Daff said:

That was shockingly abrupt and happened so early in the episode. Seems like they’re just hacking away at these now, sometimes resulting in non-appearances for main characters. It’s as if they aren’t even trying for continuity or flow of the story lines within an episode. As if it’s a collage of vignettes that we’re left to piece together.

I don't get the cute either because there are at least 10 minutes of advertisements after each episode.  I'd rather see the cut scenes.

[BluBarbi98]

I know we've never seen this on this show but I'd be okay with them recasting the Lucille character if it meant that Cyril could stay. It may not be successful but I wouldn't mind them trying. 

[AZChristian]

12 hours ago, BluBarbi98 said:

I know we've never seen this on this show but I'd be okay with them recasting the Lucille character if it meant that Cyril could stay. It may not be successful but I wouldn't mind them trying. 

They could use the old soap opera ploy of having the character be disfigured and going through plastic surgery.  (Just kidding.)