Logline
The Doctor’s quest to get Belinda home to Earth leads to a space station hosting a famous song contest. But a harmless night of fun soon becomes a battle to survive.
Written by: Juno Dawson
Directed by: Ben A. Williams
The Doctor’s quest to get Belinda home to Earth leads to a space station hosting a famous song contest. But a harmless night of fun soon becomes a battle to survive.
Written by: Juno Dawson
Directed by: Ben A. Williams
That was, as they say, a hoot.
I think the core moral storyline was pointed enough to acknowledge the political minefield that Eurovision is, yet vague enough to be applied to just about any real-world situation. This could be seen as a positive or a negative thing, I suppose.
The one thing that didn’t completely land for me was the Doctor’s holographic “torture” - I honestly think it was a little tame, and they could have gone with something a little more…visceral. That said, the wrathful Doctor is one of my favourite things to see from time to time, so it was nice to see Ncuti shift into that gear for a while.
Oh, and I was a little surprised to get an “everybody lives” ending from RTD - I wouldn’t have put it past him to kill 100,000 spectators.
People are already angry that the Doctor did that to a stand-in for Palestinians. If he’d gone any further, they’d burn down Wolf Studios.
If only we could harness the power of angry people on the internet.