It is not often that I get genuinely angry at an audio adventure, since I am usually taking a lovely walk 'round my city or out in nature when listening to them.
However, this is some of the most boring, drawn-out, nothing-of-a-story, thinks-it-has-something-to-say-but-everything-it-says-is-a-tired-cliché Doctor Who story I have ever come across. The biggest compliment I can give this waste of 2-and-a-half hours is that the 'nothing' which makes up this entire story is somewhat competently written.

Now I don't necessarily have a problem with a story that has nothing new to say, I have enjoyed quite a few of them, but I have a problem with a story which has nothing new to say, yet is delivered with the gravitas of a story which is new and bold and untrodden territory, really saying some deep, dark truths about society, and that is exactly what this is.
It's like Jubilee without the wit or quality, it's like The Daleks without the fun or worldbuilding, it's like The Haunting of Villa Diodati without the characterisation or ability to juggle oodles of plot points and characters, it's like Creatures of Beauty without the weight or conceptuality, it's like Jim Mortimore and Rob Shearman were the only ones who had any ideas about what the hell to do with the Divergent Universe Arc.

Now, Paul McGann is Paul McGann and Paul McGann is amazing, but even he cannot give weight to a scene where The Doctor yells to the sky asking why he is being tormented, because, no matter how well that is delivered, outside of deliberately pulpy horror, it is patently ridiculous.
These Monthly Range releases vary in length, but given how slowly every line is delivered, and how lackadaisically every plot point is trodden through, you'd have thought that this was a story artificially lengthened for the sake of format. At the half-hour mark I genuinely yelled out "30 minutes!? But nothing has happened yet!"

I did not care for this all that much.

3.5/10