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Overview

First aired

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Written by

Pete McTighe

Directed by

Jennifer Perrott

Runtime

50 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Robots

Inventory (Potential Spoilers!)

Fez

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Kerblam, Space

UK Viewers

7.46 million

Appreciation Index

81

Synopsis

When the Thirteenth Doctor receives a mysterious call for help packaged with a delivery from Kerb!am, the galaxy's largest retailer, she and her friends get to work in finding out the cause of the distress. However, is the human 10% of the workforce rebelling against the robots, or is there a much more complicated plot going on? She later finds out the system types all the slips, including the one she got. Why is the system needing help?

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7 reviews

Kerb!am!

I love kerblam! It's one of my favorite episodes, quote possibly the best thing from S11.


Dullish

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I'm so mad that such a fun episode with a really good premise and potential for relevant social commentary got ruined by that speech at the end


aroarachnid

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This review contains spoilers!

So I should probably hate this episode for what it represents and for what it does to the Doctor as a hero of the working class... But I'm just not going to beat myself for actually liking about 3/4 of the episode. It is fun, and the mystery is actually engaging. It just sucks that the resolution is so bad and out of sync with everything that came before (e.g. The Sunmakers, Oxygen...) I just know that if this were under Moffat the Doctor would have fudged that company up so bad. The Doctor is pretty badass as she confronts management for 40 minutes, and then at the end she does nothing to subvert the status quo (although you could argue that she knows that capitalism will end after the events in Oxygen, so she can't really alter the course of history, I don't believe they thought about that, it's my head cannon so I can sleep at night)

PS: I agree with everything quantumshade wrote, great review.


MarkOfGilead19

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This review contains spoilers!

twink bad


Banneman

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This review contains spoilers!

I really enjoyed this one, fun adventure/mystery story at Amazon Kerblam. I also thought the bubble wrap twist was great.

Very surprised with low ratings on this one.


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DOCTOR: I think you came here with a plan, but you didn't expect to fall in love. But that's what happens.

— Thirteenth Doctor, Kerblam!

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[TARDIS]

(The TARDIS is hurtling through the Vortex.)

DOCTOR: Hold on.
YASMIN: We are holding on!
DOCTOR: Well, hold on tighter.
GRAHAM: Can you do something about this turbulence?
DOCTOR: I'm avoiding something. Argh, can't get the hang of these new systems.
YASMIN: What is it?

(A bright light approaching on one of the hexagonal screens that have replaced the scanner.)

DOCTOR: No, it's still coming for us. Oh! It's a teleport pulse.
RYAN: Ah! What's that?


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