The episode begins with Nine, Rose, and Jack all respectively waking up in three separate futuristic game shows, which is a little absurd but doesn’t do all that much to impact the tone of the episode. When each quickly learns that the games are deadly, that’s when things get interesting. With our plucky side character for the story Lynda by his side, the Doctor manages to escape and try to figure out what’s going on at Satellite 5. The story works as both a criticism of reality TV and the passive culture surrounding entertainment but also served to further the “Bad Wolf” storyline. This is when we get the proper return of the Daleks with all their might and it does well at building the tension of what will happen next.