Call the Midwife

Right now you can watch Call the Midwife in Australia on Amazon Prime Video and BritBox, and in the US on Netflix and Hoopla — and it holds up to as much attention as you give it. 15 seasons of it means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. With 262 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Vanessa Redgrave leads a cast that never overplays its hand. Start it on Amazon Prime Video whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Call the Midwife is worth clearing space for. Call the Midwife trusts its audience to sit with discomfort instead of resolving it too quickly. Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth. Vanessa Redgrave and Helen George lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. The series ran for 15 seasons (2012–2026), building a story that gave its audience time to invest properly. The performances in Call the Midwife do a lot of work in the silences between the dialogue. The consistency throughout is what elevates it — not every moment is the best, but none of them are a reason to stop watching.

Viewers drawn to character-driven storytelling will find plenty to sit with in Call the Midwife. Viewers who responded to Casualty will find a lot to like here too. 15 seasons is a lot, but the quality holds all the way through. Vanessa Redgrave's work here is the kind that gets referenced in career retrospectives. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.

Call the Midwife is currently airing new episodes, created by Heidi Thomas — so there's no better time to catch up before the story moves forward. Find exactly where it's streaming below, and TV Butler Pro makes it effortless to track your progress as you go. Just search the name, and Butler finds it instantly, tells you which service has it, and remembers exactly where you left off.