Call the Midwife · Season 4 · Netflix / BritBox
Call the Midwife Season 4
Call the Midwife Season 4 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.9/10. 8 episodes on Netflix / BritBox from 18 January 2015.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Series 4 completed the transition away from Jenny Lee, redistributing narrative weight across the Nonnatus House ensemble. Helen George's Trixie and Emerald Fennell's Patsy became the new emotional centres, while the historical frame moved deeper into 1960s social change - contraception, unmarried mothers, and the NHS's expanding reach. The transition was handled more gracefully than the structural shift suggested possible. The season introduced storylines around gay identity - handled obliquely but sympathetically by the era's standards - that would develop across later seasons. Audience figures remained in the eight-to-nine million range.
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Series 4 managed the ensemble pivot after Jessica Raine's departure better than the structural challenge suggested.