"Call the District Nurse" obviously doesn't have the urgency that "Midwife" conveys. Older viewers may remember Nerys Hughes cycling around villages in her nurse's uniform and mothering her patients. This has Eve Myles as a slightly mad modern version. No bicycle for her: she screams along to banging tunes in her smart car, has a healthy relationship with a live-in boyfriend and dances around her house whenever she gets the opportunity. At work, she maintains a good relationship with bitchy and cynical colleagues and does her very best for her clients. This week saw her trying and failing to keep an elderly dementia patient at home with his long-suffering daughter, and supporting a pregnant mother with a sick child and a husband fighting abroad.
Likeable so far, in cast and script, with a good balance of light humour and the serious everyday, and a very good lead performance indeed by Ms Myles. It's a shame her character, the titular Frankie Maddox, is rather too dedicated to be believable.
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