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

Previous Story: The Miniaturist

If there's one thing these 1DAs are succeeding at so far, it's horror. After the incredibly atmospheric The Miniaturist we get another really solid, really creepy little story. It doesn't quite reach the same highs as The Miniaturist but it's also a much more coherent story so it evens out.

Putting the First Doctor in the 2020s is genius. Having him ride around on the tube and meet a podcaster and all sorts of things that you couldn't begin to imagine him doing is really really fun. It did show just how difficult it is to modernise 1 though, I really don't see a direction you could take him where he wouldn't feel massively out of place in these situations unlike the other classic Doctors.

Stephen Noonan's performance is much stronger here, he's toned down the shouting a fair bit and generally gets some great moments to shine. He also has great chemistry with Lauren Cornelius and it's definitely improving my opinion of the 1/Dodo dynamic. The "demons" were pretty solid. They felt properly eerie throughout and like the Miniaturist they feel like another really great surreal, almost eldritch villain.

Great story, quite liked it.

Next Story: The Incherton Incident