This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Pursuit of the Nightjar

Right off the bat, this story feels so refreshingly unique. An 80s nightclub in Warsaw, something that feels more alien than a planet called Gleep Glorp in the furthest reaches of the Milky Way just because of how different it is as a setting. In fact, my only gripe with the setting is the lack of Polish accents. Yeah I get that it's probably easier to just do British accents and pretend that the TARDIS is translating it or whatever excuse they'd give. Still, I'd much rather a really rubbish attempt at a Polish accent than constand British ones, especially considering how accents later play into the story. It's the only thing in my opinion needed to make the setting truly distinct.

This is a much lighter story than the last, it has some generally comedic scenes, the most notable I can think of was Peter Davison pulling an Australian accent to convince a police officer that he was the Australian ambassador. Honestly I thought his accent was fairly good, but it would be considering how much he's worked with Janet Fielding. Despite being a lighter story, that doesn't stop it from tackling some interesting moral ideas and giving a fairly good insight into the treatment of homosexual people around that time. While I thought this was handled pretty well, especially in the first half, it could have been expanded on a little more.

The alien plot really distracts from the more interesting ideas in this story. They're by far the least interesting part of the story and bring it down in my opinion. The titular band were an interesting choice, at first I thought the music they were playing was intentionally bad but they played it completely straight. I thought the story was going to go in a completely different direction honestly, with the Doctor being confused as to why everyone likes they're music. Otherwise it's a decent story let down by a mediocre alien plot and someone in production with questionable music taste.

Next Story: Mawdryn Undead