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

Previous Story: The Middle

Really great story. The beginning is very tense, straight out of a classic horror movie. The setting and the general atmosphere is brilliantly unnerving and immediately hooks you in. There's a bunch of twists and turns and it's all really engaging. The Doctor and Constance go back to the past while Flip and the guest cast stay in the present. I love stories like this, where things are going on simultaneously in two different time periods and they link together. It's all very timey-wimey.

The idea of the military using this phenomenon to resurrect dead soldiers for information makes for some interesting implications. I do like how at home Constance feels in this time period and this story is really interesting for her character. Most notably because, well, she dies. Not fully, she dies in the Doctor Who way which is "get revived immediately after with some gimmick" but still, I wasn't expecting this story to do anything like that. I'm curious to see how that affects her, I hope it's followed up on in later stories.

I feel like the story falls apart a bit with the introduction of the Static. It turns this really cool unexplained mystery into "oh it's just aliens" which I always find to be the lazy way out. The fact that they appear so late doesn't help their case either and the ending just ends up feeling rushed. Still, the rest of the story more than makes up for it. Aside from the odd miss this run of stories has been really solid.

Next Story: Cry of the Vultriss