Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Arguably Doctor Who is at its best when it steers clear of the stars and takes its rightful place in the Victorian folk horror and the melodrama which accompanies it. After all, the era itself lends itself perfectly to the idea of the supernatural investigation, the race memory of what the destructive pursuit of empire has wrought in the landscape and the name of progress, and the terrors that have been faced by the aspirational working class as lives were pushed to limit, and the soul of humanity forsaken in the grabbing hands of capitalism, and the quest for the new Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land.