Dr Who. Series 6. Pt. 2 - Night Terrors

Are there really monsters?...........Matt Smith and Daniel Mays.....Night Terrors

Bearing similarities to an EastEnder/Doctor Who crossover, this episode starts off in a council estate in London, an ordinary one, with broken lifts, angry old ladies, miserable landlords and the fact, the bin men never come. It shows, a difficult couple, Alex and Claire (Daniel Mays and Emma Cunniffe), and how they struggle to live with their potentially disturbed son, George, played by a very irritating child actor, Jamie Oram. The Doctor receives a distress call, from George and they arrive at the estate, where they look for George for the first twenty minutes of the episode. Meanwhile Amy and Rory get transported to a dollhouse through a lift (eh?) and appear to be on the run through this house of horrors from creepy dolls that turn people into one of them. It's a emotional episode, that misses difficult Doctor Who story arcs like The Silence, and River. Although the last ten minutes is rather dreary and the actors become wooden (not just Karen Gillan.) To top this innocent episode off, there is a wee mention of The Doctor's forthcoming death.


Who Rating: 3/5