Stories Television Doctor Who Series 12 Doctor Who S12 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Praxeus 1 image Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 3 Statistics Quotes 1 Transcript + Script Overview First aired Sunday, February 2, 2020 Written by Chris Chibnall, Pete McTighe Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone Runtime 49 minutes Time Travel Present Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Disease, Environmental Message, LGBTQA+ Location (Potential Spoilers!) Madagascar UK Viewers 5.22 million Appreciation Index 78 Synopsis What connects strange bird behaviour in the skies above a Madagascan beach to mysterious deaths by a deadly virus that seems to be spreading? And what does a famous British astronaut have to do with all of this? Can the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz solve this puzzle before it's too late? Watch Watched 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 Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker Graham O'Brien Bradley Walsh Yasmin Khan Mandip Gill Ryan Sinclair Tosin Cole Praxeus Show All Characters (5) How to watch Praxeus: Watch on iPlayer Blu-Ray The Complete Twelfth Series [Steelbook] Blu-Ray The Complete Twelfth Series DVD The Complete Twelfth Series 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 3 reviews 28 February 2025 · 12 words Review by Dullish 1 This isn't a bad episode I just get ill looking at it Dullish View profile Like Liked 1 6 February 2025 · 205 words Review by dema1020 Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! It's an episode that just doesn't work. It's particularly egregious in that Spyfall sets all this interesting stuff up, and Praxeus feels like it could, and should, follow up on this in some sort of fun way, but it just doesn't. It does tease a pretty interesting story and mystery at first, but it winds up being an incredibly boring take on a virus story. In hindsight, this episode, airing not long before COVID, really underestimated how interesting of a story it could have told around this type of content. Even the Classic Series' Invisible Enemy, which isn't even great, mind you, left more of a favourable impression than this chore. It's at least a bit better than some of the other Chibnall stories, but just barely so. Like Orphan 55, this episode has an environmental message. I'm not against the idea, but these stories only ever really bring them up in a rote way. We pay lip service to the tenants of environmentalism but offer no new ideas, nothing challenging or thoughtful - just a bland and superficial take on something not really any more insightful or interesting than The Green Death, from decades before. I expect more out of something from the late 2010s. dema1020 View profile Like Liked 1 19 July 2024 · 80 words Review by WhoPotterVian Spoilers This review contains spoilers! A solid episode of Doctor Who. Intriguing mystery with the Praxeus virus and some brilliant character moments. Missed opportunity not making it a Sea Devils return though, because this episode's plot would have been perfect for them. The Praxeus virus mystery with the birds was interesting, but they probably could have done more with the premise, and the Jake moment should probably have been left as a sacrifice rather than the Doctor saving him from the ship last minute. WhoPotterVian View profile Like Liked 0 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating589 members 2.66 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating1,012 votes 3.41 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 1260 Favourited 28 Reviewed 3 Saved 2 Skipped 1 Owned 13 Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite DOCTOR: Yaz, how are you doing? Cos we've literally got the most exciting rotting bird that I've ever seen. YASMIN: I don't want you to panic, but we followed one of those things through a teleport, and now I think we're on an alien planet. DOCTOR: Well, you don't do things by halves. — Praxeus Transcript + Script Needs checking DOCTOR [OC]: Planet Earth, early in the third decade of the 21st century. Population, seven billion. Seven billion lives, separate and connected, from the depths of the oceans to the edge of the atmosphere. [Soyuz capsule] (Hurtling through the atmosphere.) ADAM: Soyuz to Control. We have automatic system failure.CONTROL [OC]: Copy that, Soyuz. Can you switch to ballistic descent and maintain trajectory?ADAM: Negative. I'm way off course. DMP's failed, and we have to deploy the parachute. (sparks flying) Ah! Control, do you copy? (Heatshield is glowing.) Show Full Transcript Open in new window View Script (PDF)