I’m an avid Letterboxd user and I’ve reviewed Shada and the Paul McGann TV movie on there but had no real interest in recording my thoughts on Doctor Who episodes in general. However, I liked the recent story so much that I wrote my thoughts on it – and realised I couldn’t put them on Letterboxd, hence why I’m here!
Anyway, Arachnids in the UK just struck a chord with me; it’s very funny in places, has great characters and is genuinely quite creepy. I don’t mind spiders at all but the ones in this episode made me wince every time they turned up, and they are so well-realised – and they weren’t even the bad guys, which was kind of neat.
I also found the episode to be very moving in places. The bit near the start where the Doctor is saying goodbye to her friends really made me feel sad. Of course, an invitation to Yaz’s house (and the ensuing adventure) put paid to everyone bidding farewell. Graham’s scenes in his house with the ‘ghost’ of his dead wife were just so poignant; I was really tearful, I don’t mind admitting.
I’ve never seen Sex and the City or The Good Wife – basically, I’ve never seen Chris Noth in anything but I thought he was terrific. He fitted in with this silly little British sci-fi show so well. I’m glad they dealt with the Trump comparisons head-on, by handling them rather wittily – his character might share many of the orange one’s traits but he’s not so much an analogue as a rival; I thought that was rather neat.
Sure, it’s a very simple story, one that is resolved by playing a Stormzy tune at full volume (a great sequence, that) but that’s cool because I just dug everything about this story. Jodie Whittaker is nailing her version of the Doctor, her three friends are just great and the Sheffield locations are really giving the series a new look and feel.
Doctor Who in 2018, then – as good as it’s ever been.
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2018-11-03T09:52:12Z
I’m an avid Letterboxd user and I’ve reviewed Shada and the Paul McGann TV movie on there but had no real interest in recording my thoughts on Doctor Who episodes in general. However, I liked the recent story so much that I wrote my thoughts on it – and realised I couldn’t put them on Letterboxd, hence why I’m here!
Anyway, Arachnids in the UK just struck a chord with me; it’s very funny in places, has great characters and is genuinely quite creepy. I don’t mind spiders at all but the ones in this episode made me wince every time they turned up, and they are so well-realised – and they weren’t even the bad guys, which was kind of neat.
I also found the episode to be very moving in places. The bit near the start where the Doctor is saying goodbye to her friends really made me feel sad. Of course, an invitation to Yaz’s house (and the ensuing adventure) put paid to everyone bidding farewell. Graham’s scenes in his house with the ‘ghost’ of his dead wife were just so poignant; I was really tearful, I don’t mind admitting.
I’ve never seen Sex and the City or The Good Wife – basically, I’ve never seen Chris Noth in anything but I thought he was terrific. He fitted in with this silly little British sci-fi show so well. I’m glad they dealt with the Trump comparisons head-on, by handling them rather wittily – his character might share many of the orange one’s traits but he’s not so much an analogue as a rival; I thought that was rather neat.
Sure, it’s a very simple story, one that is resolved by playing a Stormzy tune at full volume (a great sequence, that) but that’s cool because I just dug everything about this story. Jodie Whittaker is nailing her version of the Doctor, her three friends are just great and the Sheffield locations are really giving the series a new look and feel.
Doctor Who in 2018, then – as good as it’s ever been.