The Witchfinders

This episode was a step in the right direction. Not brilliant, but promising. The writing has been subpar this season and I have lost interest after the first few episodes - Chibnall's writing has done more harm than good for woman and minorities. However, the latest two episodes have been promising and has returned some of the fun and goofiness that I enjoyed about the first few seasons. Let's hope that they continue along this line

This time the plot was quite good and the creatures are as well getting little bit of interest. But It is very, very disappointing that I do not want hear any talking from group inside that telephone box. All four are still acting like talking heads and those loose moral sentences keep coming. The Doctor also tried to make some faces but still no success.

13th is everything 12th asked her to be!

And that's awesome! I mean why should The Doctor gives speeches every goddamn time? She's kind and she's respectful! And I love it!

Not too shabby this week. For most part this series has been shockingly less than average. But this week's episode took a few tiny steps closer to the standard I had come to expect from Doctor Who.

I hope the remainder of the series a few more of these.

I still can't decide whether it's Jodie Whittaker's CBeebies take on the character or the excruciating dialogue she has to recite which makes this season so bad. Either way, this is now painful TV. Add that to the relentless 101 lessons in racism and sexism "women really did have it tough in the middle ages!" and my embarrassment in being a Doctor Who fan is now complete.

This episode is actually a pretty good story, set in the superstitious middle ages where witch-hunts clash with mud-aliens of genuinely interesting genesis. Alan Cumming's light-hearted take on an improbably hands-on witch-finding King James I is fun and engaging and as you'd expect from a classy actor, Bradley Walsh's understated Graham is as ever watchable, and guest star Siobhan Finnerhan does a good job as the paranoid antagonist. And that's it. Characters Ryan and Jasmin are dull but fine I guess, but I'm afraid Whittaker, who has the unenviable task of carrying the show, simply doesn't deliver the nuances required of her character. Authority, light and dark, exceptional knowing and occasional arrogance - virtually none of these traits come through in her performance. All we get are over-exaggerated movements, facial expressions and verbal intonations that make Horrible Histories look subtle.

I've had enough.