Ascension of the Cybermen: Seven Humans Left and a Man Called Brendan
The Cyber-Wars are over and humanity has lost, in a bleak, well-mounted penultimate episode carrying a subplot that makes no sense until it ruins everything.
The Cyber-Wars are over and humanity has lost, in a bleak, well-mounted penultimate episode carrying a subplot that makes no sense until it ruins everything.
A ghost story at Lake Geneva in 1816 turns into the arrival of a half-converted Cyberman, in the best-directed and best-monstered hour of the era.
Two immortals harvest human nightmares in an episode with a superb monster idea, a strong horror opening, and an ending that mishandles what it raised.
A bacteria that feeds on microplastics spreads across three continents, in an episode so keen to deliver its point that it forgets to build a threat.
A Judoon squad lands in Gloucester hunting a fugitive, and the Doctor finds a version of herself she has no memory of ever being. The season’s best hour.
The fam meet Nikola Tesla at Niagara Falls and find a scavenger queen wearing stolen technology, in a warm historical with a thin monster at the centre.
Spyfall Part Two strands the Doctor across three centuries, gives Sacha Dhawan the season’s best performance, and lets its own spy thriller evaporate.
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A Dalek mutant buried under Sheffield builds itself a casing out of scrap, in a New Year special that finally remembers how to make a monster frightening.
Series 11 ends with Tim Shaw as a false god and Graham deciding whether to avenge Grace, in a finale with no scale, no stakes and no season to resolve.
A cabin in Norway hides a mirror world that offers back the dead, in the strangest and most divisive episode of Series 11, and the one Graham needed.
The fam land in Pendle during a witch hunt, and the Doctor discovers how little her authority counts now, in an episode with a great idea and a mud monster.
A help message in a Kerblam! delivery sends the fam undercover in a galactic warehouse, in the season’s most conventional and most argued-about episode.
Yaz travels to 1947 Punjab to find out about her grandmother’s first husband, in the season’s best-judged hour and its smartest use of a monster.
A creature that eats energy gets loose on a medical transport, in the season’s flimsiest hour, redeemed slightly by a genuinely good monster design.
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Giant spiders overrun a Sheffield hotel built on a landfill, in an episode that wants to be about corporate greed and forgets to be about spiders.
Rosa puts the fam in Montgomery in 1955 and asks them to protect a fixed point, in an episode whose historical drama is far better than its science fiction.