Stories Audio Drama Torchwood Main Range Torchwood Main Range Episode 15 Corpse Day 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 4 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Tuesday, May 9, 2017 Written by James Goss Runtime 65 minutes Time Travel Present Location (Potential Spoilers!) Cardiff, Earth, Wales Synopsis Glynn Lewis is just putting up a spice rack when there's a knock at the door. A knock that will bring a brutal end to his perfect family. PC Andy is very excited. It's Corpse Day – the day when the local constabulary get help on dead cases from Torchwood. This year, he's volunteered to act as liaison, and he knows he's going to have a brilliant time. For Dr Owen Harper, today's just like any other. There'll be bloodshed, screaming and murder. At the end of it all, he doesn't care. After all, life's just for the living, and he's long dead. Listen Listened Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Owen Harper Glynn Lewis Andy Davidson Show All Characters (3) How to listen to Corpse Day: Big Finish Audio Torchwood: Corpse Day Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 4 reviews 24 January 2025 · 11 words Review by jaurenoodles 1 i have no clue what i just listened to jaurenoodles View profile Like Liked 1 23 September 2024 · 16 words Review by fifthdoctor 3 wtf? not sure what I was expecting? bit of a hard listen. trigger warning I guess. fifthdoctor View profile Like Liked 3 7 August 2024 · 4 words Review by jemfs Spoilers 3 This review contains spoilers! jesus f**king christ jemfs View profile Like Liked 3 23 June 2024 · 437 words Review by dema1020 Spoilers 3 This review contains spoilers! Jeez, I was not ready for Corpse Day. What I initially mistook as a fun little team-up between Owen and Andy, on an annual day where Torchwood basically indulges the police as a sort of courtesy, gives way to one of the darkest Torchwood stories that might outright exist. And can you blame me? This story starts out really fun and I like the dynamic between a dead Owen and a still new to all this Andy. Then the story takes that nightmare turn and I really struggled with this content. It's not necessarily a bad story, although it had a lot of bad parts. It is a deeply unpleasant listen about a bunch of traumatized, raped, and brainwashed women. It's so bleak and depressing I really can't give it much of a whole-hearted recommendation. I can't say it is a story without value or anything like that, but the performances were a little underwhelming given the seriousness of the situation from pretty much the entire cast, and I don't really know what the point of the story is, either, other than just kind of going for a lot of shock value. I guess I was shocked, certainly, but not in a way that left me clamouring for anything more. Beyond that though, it's not like this audio is going to change anyone's opinions on kidnapping and torturing women, right? I don't really want to hear about that and I especially don't need to hear about that from a production that appears to be entirely centred around and created by a male perspective. It feels exploitative more than fun. And this is the story that brought Burn Gorman to Big Finish. Yikes. At least he didn't seem to mind and seemed enthusiastic about the whole affair in the behind the scenes audio. There were some details around his character that even I, who is most certainly not a fan of Owen, could appreciate, as Owen's in his dead phase here and that adds something to the story, even if that is just a clumsy sort of take on his motivations and opinions around abortion during the story because I guess Corpse Day wasn't edgy enough, it had to uselessly inject a bunch of pro-life buzzwords in, again, I can only surmise for the sake of sounding controversial and provocative. This is already more than I would like to revisit Corpse Day. I did not feel good listening to this audio, and while it did have my attention, I would struggle to call it entertaining. At least it was well put together in terms of the recording quality. dema1020 View profile Like Liked 3 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating75 members 3.70 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating155 votes 3.85 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating63 votes 3.70 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 144 Favourited 14 Reviewed 4 Saved 0 Skipped 2 Owned 6 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote