'Call the Midwife' Holiday Special 2020 Recap
Christmas is finally here, and we know this for sure because the Call the Midwife holiday special has arrived as well. And I feel I speak for all of you when I say “Blimey, did we need this right about now!”
This year’s holiday adventure is only the second time in the past five years where all the midwives have spent the Christmas season in Poplar. No globetrotting to South Africa or galivanting to the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Not even a road trip to the Mother House. It feels good to have all our ladies home for the holidays. Well, almost all of them.
As the episode begins, we find that Nurse Dyer has packed up and left Poplar without a word to her friends and colleagues. We knew she would be exiting the series back in August, but not how her departure would be explained. Sister Julienne reveals that Valerie was distressed after her grandmother died and asked to resign. Concerned for her state of mind, the sister suggested the young nurse go to Hope Clinic in South Africa to keep busy and work through her grief. (This is reminiscent of when Reverend Tom left Poplar to become a missionary after his dear wife Barbara passed away.) Val’s return to Nonnatus House is unlikely at best.
