This is one of the best episodes of the season, definitely the best we’ve seen so far in the club. I really like the mystic vibe the whole episode has. But even with that, I didn’t find it that amazing. The villains feel kind of generic, and I wish they had been more fleshed out. I’m all for a “humans are the real monsters” storyline, but I still want some actual motivation behind the madness.

Then we have the main issue with the show: the characters. I still feel nothing for Ianto and Tosh. Jack and Gwen are okay. Owen is awful.

I think @dema1020 summed it up perfectly in his review of this episode on the site, so I’m just going to quote him:

It feels a little overplayed and I just don’t get much of anything out of Gwen and Owen. Owen’s character is just presented as so ugly from the start it really is hard to feel much other than disdain for him, so it is rough to see him paired with the audience stand-in. Once again, it feels more like Torchwood’s trademark version of haphazardly “adulting” Doctor Who, and the effects are laid pretty bare.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

The story is still good enough that it earns 4/5 but it had the potential to be higher and that is always frustrating...