film criticism by maryann johanson | celebrating 25 years: 1997–2022
Holy shit, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Brilliant brilliant mind frak. I love it. I’m hardly every deeply, hugely surprised by fiction, but this might be the biggest shock I’ve ever gotten from Doctor Who.
I started off thinking, Oh, hey, it’s like an episode of classic Doctor Who: Go to a place where something dodgy is happening, do a thing, rescue some people, be responsible for the deaths of others, go home. But this turns out to really be about something else…
