Bit slow at times, and let down by the atrocious CGI, but all in all a solid fairy story that felt more Doctor Who than Torchwood. I liked the exploration we got of Jack's character a bit more

IDK I just think evil potentially world-ending fairies are kinda rad.

A strange beast. Feels more like a Doctor Who episode than a Torchwood one, with the way it takes a sci-fi approach to a childhood fantastical concept (fairies). I like it a lot though, especially how we get more backstory for Jack.

It's going to feel like I'm picking on Torchwood but I can assure my fellow fans I am largely getting a lot of the bad out of the way, knowing that an interesting side of this series is that though it struggled early on in quality, between Children of Earth, Miracle Day, and Big Finish, a lot of value was found in Torchwood, and even from days like this it was brimming with potential.

The problem is, I feel like I've seen this story done a lot better, elsewhere, so Small Worlds is kind of pointless and definitely unnecessarily edgy. The CGI and effects in general do not look great, and the acting gets similarly clumsy around it. If one wants a fun, adult take on fairies with a kind of horror sensibility to it, Supernatural definitely did that a lot better.