🙏🏼27/50 = 😶Average! = ✊🏼Skippable!

Thworping through time and space, one adventure at a time!

WHY SO UNSERIOUS?

The Friendly Place takes the Doctor and Alice to an amusement park on an alien planet. He's sulking because they've arrived too late to see the paradise the planet used to be, but Alice is enjoying herself.

Eleven is well characterised here, showing how he goes from serious to childish and back again in a blink.

The big mystery here is how everyone seems to be nice and act calm, even the children, which the Doctor finds suspicious. What's up with these comic stories and their preoccupation with emotions?

We meet the various park employees, who are all cheerful to the point of being eerie.

It is strange to see Alice holding the enemies at gunpoint in two subsequent stories. This truly shows that she is a no-nonsense character.

This is another very brief story, so there's a lot of expository dialogue before the story quickly tightens the tension and reaches a quick climax.

It makes perfect sense for the alien monster to act inside a theme park, where employees constantly bribe the guests with various free stuff they don't need or want in exchange for removing their bad moods.

There's an epilogue here that teases the return of the Entity further along the line.