Warning: this review is also a recap, meaning it contains spoilers for the episode
The Doctor’s latest adventure starts as a fond parody of the Bridgerton/Jane Austen school of costume drama. We know this because someone – usually Millie Gibson’s Ruby – says, “Ooh, this is exactly like Bridgerton,” every 30 seconds. But just as it seems Doctor Who has settled for 50 minutes of well-intentioned but unspectacular homage, writers Kate Herron and Briony Redman do something unexpected – giving the Doctor a love interest in dashing anti-hero Rogue (Jonathan Groff, who should know his way around a ballroom, having played George III in the Broadway run of Hamilton).
