As I suspected, this is more a coda than a finale, but I think viewing it as that made it work really nicely.

There's a lot of lovely character stuff in here, Andy running a zoom quiz for the TARDIS Team, Liv working on the front lines, the clapping for the NHS, the loss, the joy, the new year. This felt very authentic to the real 2020, which I think is both a benefit and a detriment.

The loss of two members of the extended cast is almost glossed over, but then this is covering a year, it does make some sense, and honestly that's kind of how that year was sometimes, sometimes terrible things happened, and you had to just keep soldiering on.

I don't know, it's a really weird one. I think there's something to be said for portraying the pandemic in this sort of story, but I think there's also something to be said for not doing it, almost cheapening it, I'm really not sure where I stand on that.

But the character focus does work for me, and I think it's a very fitting coda to the series (I just wish that sets 2/3/4 were more like set 1)

One last thing I do know is that this is going to be very frustrating to add to the Torchwood Timeline lmao