The Well: Something Is Standing Right Behind Her
The Well returns to the planet from Midnight five hundred centuries later and finds the thing still there. The best episode of the Gatwa era.
The Well returns to the planet from Midnight five hundred centuries later and finds the thing still there. The best episode of the Gatwa era.
Wild Blue Yonder strands the Doctor and Donna on an empty ship at the edge of the universe with something wearing their faces. Genuinely frightening.
Village of the Angels strands a Weeping Angel in a Devon village in 1967 and finally lets Flux be frightening. Easily the best chapter of the run.
The Higurashi franchise returns with a new rendition of the classic 2006 series, much to the delight of long time fans and first time watchers.
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 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.
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.
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.
A colony ship escaping a black hole runs at different speeds on different decks, and Bill spends a decade at the bottom of it while the Doctor loses minutes.
A Vatican text drives every reader to suicide, and the reason is the single best twist Doctor Who has pulled in years. Nothing you are watching is real.
A mining station where the spacesuits have killed their crew and are walking the corpses around, in the most savage and best-argued episode of the season.
Bill and five housemates take a suspiciously cheap house with a suspiciously helpful landlord, and Doctor Who does a straight haunted-house story rather well.
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A hotel with a room for everyone’s worst fear turns out to be feeding on something else entirely, and the Doctor has to break Amy’s faith in him to save her.
Night Terrors answers a child’s cry for help and finds a cupboard full of monsters, in a small, warm horror story about a father learning what his son is.
Day of the Moon beats a monster nobody can remember by hiding a message in the Apollo 11 broadcast, and gives River Song her cruellest scene yet.
Flesh and Stone ends the Weeping Angels two-parter with a blind walk through a forest of statues and a crack in the universe that eats people whole.
The Waters of Mars traps the Doctor on a doomed Mars base where everyone must die, and watches him decide that the laws of time no longer apply to him.