Cult British Medical Drama With 95% on RT Drops to Netflix With Season 13 Next Week

Gregory House, Meredith Grey, Shaun Murphy of The Good Doctor, J. D. of Scrubs, Max Goodwin of New Amsterdam may not save the world like the Marvel superheroes, but they do save lives.

How many times have we seen House bring a patient back from the brink of death? Or how Dr. Goodwin performed a surgery that no one thought would be successful? Not all superheroes wear capes: some wear regular medical scrubs.

But among the more popular medical dramas, there is a hidden British gem that has been running for 13 seasons and received almost perfect 95% on Rotten Tomatoes – Call the Midwife.

Call the Midwife is Based on Real Stories

Call the Midwife is a historical drama based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, a real midwife in the 1950s and 60s, which later expanded beyond the confines of a book source.

The great value of this drama is that much of the material was collected with the help of fans of the show. After the first season, many nurses and midwives, especially retired ones, offered their memories as sources.

What is Call the Midwife About?

England, 1950s. Jenny Lee has just graduated as a midwife and arrived in one of the poorest areas of London. She joins the Nonnatus House, where nuns and medically trained staff help women give birth.

Jenny and her friends' days are filled with endless phone calls, long bike rides, and sleepless nights in the midst of poverty and other people's suffering.

In addition to the amazingly realistic post-war setting, a variety of social issues are explored, such as childbirth, abortion, death, as well as good and bad examples of family relationships, questions of faith, religion, and overcoming oneself and seemingly insurmountable circumstances.

And the main characters also take care of the sick, help those in need, organize social events and spend their free time with their personal lives, unless we are talking about nuns who, unlike their secular sisters, spend their evenings in prayer, learning about God and doing small handicrafts.

Call the Midwife is a show filled with the best impulses of the human soul and a wonderful fairy tale, because when you look at reality, you wish the people around you were as responsive, caring and understanding as most of the characters on the screen.

Call the Midwife Season 13 is Coming to Netflix

And very soon, Season 13 of Call the Midwife will be available on Netflix – it will launch on the platform on September 2.