[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Call the Midwife Season 14 Episode 1.]
Name the Midwife‘s Season 14 premiere furthered the romance between Megan Cusack‘s Nancy Corrigan and Conor O’Donnell‘s Roger Noble, a pair who acquired collectively within the 2024 Christmas particular. Whereas some followers weren’t very moved by this new pairing in December, the collection clearly had severe plans for it.
Name the Midwife returned on Sunday, March 30, at 8/7c on PBS. It rang in a brand new decade in Poplar, and with the Nineteen Seventies comes appreciable social unrest. Residents of the Isle of Canines had been protesting for his or her independence all through the premiere episode, inflicting journey delays on the one bridge to and from the island. This threatened to make a high-risk delivery much more harmful as Nurse Rosalind Clifford (Natalie Quarry) and Nurse Crane (Linda Bassett) tried to get emergency providers to a laboring mom on the island. She was susceptible to dying on account of potential for uterine rupture following a C-section in her second being pregnant. A vaginal supply on this third being pregnant posed severe threat to her well being and the child’s. Fortunately, the child lady was delivered safely with out the necessity for a C-section within the girl’s residence.
The opposite main dramas of the episode had been Nancy’s engagement to Roger, whose mom (Andrea Irvine) strongly disapproved of their union over the couple’s spiritual variations (and Nancy being a single mom), and a 14-year-old lady’s being pregnant that her too-devoutly spiritual mother and father couldn’t comprehend. Within the former story, Roger stood his floor and declared his love for Nancy and her daughter, Colette (Francesca Fullilove), and the episode ended with a celebration of their engagement that Roger’s mom, Esther Noble, attended, signaling her warming as much as the union. Within the latter story, the younger lady’s father ultimately got here to his senses about forcing his scared daughter to undergo an exorcism-like ritual with their church’s leaders. He additionally realized how grave an error it was to disclaim their daughter any form of sexual well being training on account of their spiritual beliefs.
After an episode stuffed with him and his spouse denying the likelihood that their daughter was experiencing something however an immaculate conception, the daddy instructed his terrified daughter to run to Nonnatus Home to hunt assist from Nurse Joyce Highland (Renee Bailey) and the opposite ladies of the group. The younger lady was despatched to spend her being pregnant at a boarding home that cares for pregnant teenagers. The lady’s mom ultimately got here round and supported her daughter as she left city.
Might Nancy and Roger be leaving city subsequent? Because of the truth that Name the Midwife airs within the U.Ok. earlier than it premieres within the U.S., we have already got a solution about whether or not this was Cusack’s remaining episode of the collection.
Cusack confirmed to U.Ok. outlet Radio Occasions in February that Name the Midwife Season 14 is her remaining season. She first joined the collection 4 years in the past, and Nancy’s story started to finish within the 2024 Christmas particular. Whereas she is going to seemingly be absent for a lot of Season 14, Episode 1 may not be the final followers see of Nancy this season. Her relationship with Roger, plus her renewed job supply from a earlier season that she’s now chosen to simply accept, shall be what takes her away.
“There are many issues occurring,” Cusack instructed Radio Occasions in January 2025 as new episodes got here out within the U.Ok. “Nancy’s acquired tons occurring. A job supply, an engagement, an overbearing mother-in-law to be. It was beautiful [to explore all of that]. I by no means thought Nancy would have a romance, so it’s a brand new ingredient of that character. And it’s been beautiful within the sense that it feels just like the group of Poplar has allowed her to let her guard down and expertise somebody loving her.”
Nancy knowledgeable the Nonnatus Home ladies of her and Colette’s plans to depart with Roger within the premiere.
“Generally, you’ve acquired to step out of your consolation zone to develop,” Cusack instructed Radio Occasions in February. “I’ve learnt a lot, however I’m initially of my profession and I have to take a leap of religion.”
“It’s bittersweet, actually. I’ve made lifelong friendships there and I get to take these with me,” she added. “However once I take into consideration not rocking as much as set and seeing Tim, who’s a part of the grips staff, along with his guitar hanging out of his van and serenading folks at half six within the morning… It actually has been like a household.”
Name the Midwife, Sundays, 8/7c, PBS