It's silly, it's chaotic, and it's exactly my kind of trash. Well, better than trash, bit like a raw gemstone.

There's a lot that could have been better about this episode but it gives me severe brainrot so I don't care too much about that.

A nonsensical plot - RTD at his worst with his penchant for pomp and unreasonably high stakes - saved by lots of fun and some great acting, particularly but by no means only from Jinkx.

The first time I watched this episode I had got back from the pub, sat through Space Babies, put this on and stopped half way through, being a bit tired. I watched it through the next day, and I realised it wasn't that I was tired. Its just tedious.

Going to see the Beatles record their first album the Doctor and Ruby are shocked that the music isn't good, but neither is Cilla Blacks or in fact any.

Jinkx Monsoon plays the role of the Maestro, to be honest I've no idea who they are but I found them a little over the top, and I can say the same for Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor in this.

Long time Who fans will know that the Beatles were susposed to make an appearence in the Chase but a clip of them was used instead, this seemed a great opportunity to put things right - only it doesn't do it. The Bealtes themselves barely feature and begs the question why bother?

There is some nice dialouge where the Doctor says he's living here right now just over there - a nice reference to an Unearthly Child. Annoucning he has fanmily and a granddaughter Ruby asks about her and the Doctor doesn't know, and by his attitude doesn't even care, "I dunno" is more or less his reply. What a charming man this Doctor is!

Though this is the second adventure we see of The Doctor and Ruby travelling together, Ruby mentions that the Doctor never hides, maybe there are more journerys we've not seen?

In finding out what happened to music the Doctor hoists a piano onto the roof, and again why? why not a busy street or market place?

This episode has all the right components, a super being who the Doctor needs all his abilitys to deafeat, The Beatles, a great setting - 60's London. But in seeing this again I'm just bored.

And then we come to the end, an awfull look to the camera by the Doctor, the wink and a big song and dance number. The Bealtes music is hard to use, but using one of the songs they famously covered would have been great but again no. An embarrising, unnecessary bit tacked onto the end.

Skip it.

If you don't like drag, you will not like this episode. Thank god I love drag and hate The Beatles.

I do actually enjoy The Devil's Chord as a fun Doctor Who adventure against an enjoyable one-off villain. If that was all there was to this episode, I would have rated it higher. Unfortunately, it is not.

Firstly, I am a Beatles fan, and the child of a Beatles fan. I remember getting a notification on my phone announcing that one of the new series' episodes was going to be about The Beatles, and excitedly sending it to my dad. I remember watching Russell T Davies talk about how there was a Beatles episode with a battle involving a piano. I remember all the marketing around the episode as 'The Beatles episode'. This is not a Beatles episode. The Beatles do appear in it, as background or minor characters. John and Paul do save the day, but even they are only in four scenes; the recording, the cafeteria, the piano battle (outside the room where the main action is going on), and the musical scene at the end. George and Ringo only appear in three of those, and get even fewer lines. As in, one each, compared to Paul's 10 and John's 5.

Secondly, this episode feels out of place. This is something I started feeling after Ruby says that she's from six months after we last saw the Doctor. This is a feeling which has also been compounded by Boom having Ruby visit her first planet (after over 6 months, and one adventure), and Rogue later having Ruby tell the Doctor 'It snowed when I was born, and we met space babies', with no mention of later adventures. Plus, having The One Who Waits almost be here on the second episode is less appropriate than on the episode before the final. I know that RTD has said that the episode order was not messed with, which, in my opinion, makes this worse.

Thirdly, we once again have other characters put importance on the identity of Ruby's birth mum. I don't like this. If Ruby's mum is supposed to believably be nobody, then Maestro (and Sutekh, as he gets a mention here) should not be finding her so important. Maestro's comments are part of the problem of Russell T Davies making us think Ruby's mum is a significant plot point, not the viewer emphasising with Ruby to make her significant.

Fourthly, as a musician, specifically as a violinist and someone who can read sheet music... AAAAH! There is no way that John and Paul would be able to read those floating notes. Firstly, because none of the Beatles could ever read sheet music, but secondly because there wasn't a floating stave, or a floating clef. Secondly, the chord that banishes Maestro is a C chord, supposedly in reference to the ending from A Day in a Life (an E chord, played by John, Paul, Ringo and George Martin). C chords are played earlier in the episode, too. Why is Maestro still here? They should have been banished already.

Maybe, after time has passed, and we're further from the 'Doctor Who is going to have a Beatles episode' marketing, I will change my rating of this episode and rank it slightly higher. The issue with this story and Rogue feeling like they're in each other's places and Ruby's birth mum being written as so important to the gods of the Whoniverse (side note: I do not like the whole Whoniverse title card things, but am not basing any reviews or ratings on their existence, as they are separate from the episode). And then there's the musical stuff, which is bound to be repeated (anyone else remember Five's perfect fifth?). But right now I'm still a kinda salty Beatles fan.