33 TV Shows Like Downton Abbey
33 Shows Like "Downton Abbey" to Watch When You Miss the Crawleys
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While "Downton Abbey" tends to keep its "below-stairs" characters in supporting roles, "Call the Midwife" is all about the people living in and around a lower-income community in 1950s and 1960s London. Inspired by memoirs of a real midwife who worked in that time period, the show follows a group of nurses and midwives and the community they serve. It has plenty of interpersonal drama, too, but it spends a considerable amount of time touching on the major social buttons of their (and our) era, including race, gender, sexuality, poverty, socio-economic class, abortion, maternal care, healthcare problems, and so much more.