Reviewed: Doctor Who Series 15

Reviewed: Doctor Who Series 15

So far, we’ve had the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) stepping on a landmine, Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) spending a lifetime being stalked, social media and racism, Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) becoming animated, and the return of a scary entity on the planet of Midnight. I’ve liked all those stories, but Lucky Day is the most I’ve enjoyed an episode of Doctor Who since 2017. I went into it tentatively. For a while, this looked like another re…

A piece of 50 cents, a podcast and a viral lie: this is how the beginning of "Lucky Day", episode 4 of season 15 of Doctor Who. The Tardis landed on Earth in 2007, where the Doctor handed over a simple play to a child named Conrad. Seventeen years later, this gesture reappeared as the first domino of a collective collapse. Conrad, who became an animator of a conspiratory podcast, tracked the Doctor and became interested in Ruby Sunday. Their dis…