DOCTOR WHO: JOY TO THE WORLD

This week brings us Joy to the World, the newest installment of the RTD2 era, and the newest of the show's iconic Christmas episodes.

Directed by Alex Pillai (BRIDGERTON, CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA), the story returns former (and, for my money, much missed) DW show runner Steven Moffat to the equation with a script described thusly by BBC:

When Joy opens a secret doorway to the Time Hotel, she discovers danger, dinosaurs and the Doctor. But a deadly plan is unfolding across the earth, just in time for Christmas.

Despite dogged and breathless reassurances from current show runner Russell T. Davies that  DW is currently in good health and is being warmly received (even by new demographics of audiences), it's difficult to escape the notion that the zeitgeist the series seemed to have plugged into during Davies' original tenure as series boss...and during Moffat's subsequent rein...feels much more elusive and fragile  than it has in a long while.  That's a long-ass run-on sentence, but, oh well.

Will this Holiday special, and the soon-to-arrive new waves of Ncuti Gatwa-led episodes, change this tepid energy and muted perception/reception?  We'll see...

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