Movie #1987 ........................."William & Mary" Seasons 2 & 3,12 episodes - streaming

 Movie #1987 "William& Mary" Seasons 2 & 3, Amazon prime streaming

We finished this wonderful series (see blog on Season 1, if you missed it (I reprinted it below) and miss the characters already.  We left them getting married in the last season, but something got in the way of the actual ceremony, and now those somethings continue to offer the conflict in Seasons 2 and 3.  All this while they make 2 house moves, one of the family members deals with a medical issue,  the undertaking business gets sold, they start up another undertaking business,  one of the boys gets his life in danger, and Mary quits her hospital job for a while and does freelance midwifery.  The bottom line?  A LOT comes their way, but it is in 12 episodes.  What holds the whole thing together is the love and support of the family members, showing that they are willing to do anything to hold them all together, and they feel the need to do community service and serve people coming into life and out of life --- apart but supporting each other's jobs together.  A nice theme, I would say.  There's some heartbreak here of a woman having to deliver a stillborn baby juxtaposed with a rather strange but funnily creative funeral for another.  But that's what this show is all about, and we really enjoyed it and think you will, too.  These two seasons were even better than Season 1, so I'd rate it 4.5.  (only complaints:  the woman is put in position of being angry a lot on a minute's notice, which makes Martin Clunes(Doc Martin?  oh no)  all the more kind and lovable!  and the story doesn't follow the youngest daughter much at all, which was too bad)

"WILLIAM & MARY"  seasons 2 and 3, 12episodes, about 45 minutes each  2004-5

Sunday, September 13, 2020   ---- original BLOG on Season 1

Movie #1975 ........................."William & Mary" (Amazon Prime streaming)Season 1, 6 episodes

Movie #1975  "William & Mary (Amazon Prime  streaming) Season 1:    Well, we found another tv series we are enjoying.  He (Martin Clunes, whom we know as Doc Martin) is wonderfully kind; she is full of energy, intensity and hotheadedness.  He has two daughters and a dead wife; she has two sons, a troublesome  ex husband and an equally meddlesome mother.  He is an undertaker, and she is a midwife.  As they see it, they make a full circle of caring for others into and  out of life.  And they are in love, and isn't that all they need? Check it out.  It is a British/Scottish show that covers a lot in the 48 minutes for each episode --- the grief and poignant moments of death are juxtaposed to the excitement and wonderfulness of birth and then throw in problems in raising kids and dealing with other needy people in your lives and you have this dramedy.  I am learning a lot about what the two jobs entail, as well.  I recommend it as a balance to some of the violent offerings that seem to overpower other streaming offerings.  And give it 4 out of 5 so far.  

"WILLIAM AND MARY"     2003, season 1: 6 episodes, 48 mins each      Total:  3 seasons, 18 eps

The lives of William (an undertaker) and Mary (a midwife) cross. They become romantically involved, but what happens for the rest of the series is far less predictable.

Stars:

 Martin Clunes, Julie Graham, Cheryl Campbell