'Call The Midwife,' There's Christmas Heartbreak Coming

The holidays aren't the easiest time of year, especially for the residents of Poplar in Call The Midwife. While all that talk of love and joy being the spirit of the season and family togetherness being the best present of all sounds nice, it doesn't always solve the problem of hungry bellies or homelessness. Even those who do seem to have managed to find it all discover the holidays are a struggle, as the above image of Trixie Aylward (nee Franklin) shows above. As actor Helen George, who plays the longtime fan-favorite, revealed recently in an interview, newlyweds Trixie and Matthew will have an "awkward" first holiday season.

"They're trying to work out what they're going to do," George told the Radio Times. "Trixie doesn't really have any family apart from Nonnatus House, and of course, he's a Chelsea boy, so does he really want to spend Christmas in Poplar?" Olly Rix, who plays Matthew, admitted not so much; but as a good husband, he winds up sucking it up. "They have all these obligations at Nonnatus House," Rix said. "He's just sort of screaming inside."

Trixie and Matthew won't be the only ones struggling. Stephen McGann, who plays Dr Patrick Turner, warned that though they filmed in the middle of the summer, there will be snow – with disastrous consequences. "It's that weird thing where you're walking along the road in the sunshine, and then you turn the corner, and it was literally January," he explained to the Radio Times since they filmed parts of the special in July. "It was dangerous snow, high drama where it really affects and endangers people, and affects the plot."