Revolution of the Daleks: Two Goodbyes and a Recycling Plant
The Doctor breaks out of prison to find Daleks being manufactured as British security drones, in a special that works best when it stops being a plot.
The Doctor breaks out of prison to find Daleks being manufactured as British security drones, in a special that works best when it stops being a plot.
The Master explains the Timeless Child and rewrites the Doctor’s entire origin, in a finale that spends forty minutes on a retcon and forgets to be a story.
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.
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.
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.
The Doctor and the fam get stranded on Desolation in a race across a dead planet, in a handsome, weightless episode that drops the season’s only real clue.
Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor falls through a train roof with no TARDIS, no sonic and no memory, in a debut that gets the character right and the plot wrong.
Two Doctors refuse to regenerate at the same moment, in a slight, gentle Christmas special that exists almost entirely to say goodbye properly.