A tale of two Christmas specials. One is a 4.5, which is the Doctor hanging out with Anita and lot of the beginning. Then it's surrounded by a lot of 3.5, which all averages itself out to a four. Who would've guessed that with Joy as the title character she gets upstaged halfway through. Still, the part about covid and her mother dying while the government partied was delivered with conviction. We also got Trev this story!

The most important thing though is that Ncuti Gatwa desperately needed this episode and begot it, we spent so much more time with his Doctor than it felt like we really had before and he's absolutely clicking for me. Ready for 2025!