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Actually in the second season there was an American character. A woman's son comes to visit her from the U.S. with his American fiancee who was rude and condescending. Then in another season I can't remember which one an American applies to work at Nonnatus House but Phyllis refuses to consider hiring her. I would love to see an American character on this show. Maybe the writers could consider writing in an American tourist who ends up marrying an Eastender and needs the help of the midwives but since midwifery is unknown in the U.S. medical field in the 1960s the woman is unsure of having a midwife help her.
Better yet watch the second series of the 1970s adaptation with Jane Wymark as Morwenna because that adaptation is much closer to the books in depicting Drake and Morwenna's story.
Have you read the books? Because the Morwenna in the books is nothing like Debbie Horsfield's Morwenna. She had no choice but to marry Osborne Whitworth because of 18th century mores in the series and the books but George in the books and the 70s adaptation coerces her to marry Whitworth to advance his place in Cornish society while the 2015 adaptation has George forcing her to marry Whitworth to punish her for seeing Drake Carne. I did see feminist attitudes in the 2015 Morwenna even if she couldn't divorce.
Yes there is but I've heard that season 5 is supposed to be the last and to perfectly honest I'm glad. I hated what Debbie Horsfield did with the Drake, Morwenna and Osborne Whitworth storyline. Yes, Osborne Whitworth is a despicable character in the books but Debbie Horsfield turning Morwenna into a basically a feminist she did the books a disservice. Morwenna did not bond with her son in the books and Osborne Whitworth is not the Mama's boy that Debbie Horsfield wrote. And I hated how she turned Drake into a stalker after Morwenna's marriage. The 1970s version was much more true to the books in regard to the Drake and Morwenna storyline and showed the traumatized Morwenna much better.
Of course. I recently reread the Redbook article from 1994 and I can see why Melissa has nothing to with her biological mother and her family. Legally she is an adult and if she wants nothing to do with her biological mother there is nothing anyone can do. Melissa is not an extension of her biological mother as people have thought and Mary Beth did make her choice when she signed up to be a surrogate mother because she was no teenager and already had two children so she should have known about biological bonding.
Which is why I had real difficulty with the Vera Bates storyline. In fact, I thought that Lord Grantham would have found out about Lady Mary's indiscretion when Vera Bates threatened to sell the story to papers and especially since his valet didn't want to leave. If Lord Grantham can neutralize Richard Carlisle then in reality Vera Bates would have gotten into serious trouble trying to pull what she did with the aristocracy.