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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Vicky Jessop

Doctor Who episode 3, Boom, review – Steven Moffat offers up an explosive return to form

After space babies and The Beatles, the third episode in the new Doctor Who series starts with two soldiers are navigating their way through a battlefield shrouded in fog. One is talking on the phone to his daughter. “Kiss kiss,” he says as he signs off. A bad sign, right?

Indeed, a few minutes later, they’ve disappeared, the Doctor arrives, and the episode kicks off properly when he lands himself in a spot of bother by stepping on a landmine. For the rest of the episode, he’s stuck there, while his companion Ruby attempts to save him. Until things go wrong, which of course, they do.

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