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Last week, I reviewed A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Tina discovered that she didn’t like Colm Tóibín’s short stories as much as his novels, so she didn’t finish The News From Dublin.

Season 15 of Call the Midwife takes us to 1971 and the women’s liberation movement. That’s a long way from where we started in Season 1, 1957. I wasn’t born in 1957 and I turned 9 in 1971.

A lot of Season 15 is about impending loss. As time goes by in this series, as in life, people die or move on. Institutions change. Cultural touchstones that were valued in the past lose their effectiveness. We have to adjust with the times because they aren’t going to wait for us to be fully ready. (Ha! That sounds like Vanessa Redgrave’s narration at the beginning and end of each episode).

There’s a lot of news around Call the Midwife, right now.

The next show we can expect from this cast and crew won’t be a series, it will be a movie. We expect it to be set in 1972 or 1973 and to feature the current cast in an overseas adventure.

A prequel series has been announced for later this year. It will be set in WWII and will feature younger versions of Sisters Julienne, Evangelina, and Monica Joan working in the East End during the Blitz. I’m very excited for this development since Home Front stories in London are some of my favorites.

All of this led to rumors that Season 15 would be the last conventional season for Call the Midwife, but apparently not. The above two productions will take precedence, but we can expect a Season 16 in a couple of years.

Season 15 is available with a PBS Passport.

I recently got my husband hooked on the show. We’re watching from the beginning on Netflix. I’m thrilled to watch it again because shows about strong women helping strong women are what I need right now.

Have you seen Call the Midwife? What do you think?