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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Martin Belam

Doctor Who: The Well – season two episode three recap

Ncuti Gatwa opens a vault on the mining colony in The Well
Ncuti Gatwa opens a vault on the mining colony in The Well Photograph: BBC Studios/Bad Wolf/James Pardon

A lot of science fiction and fantasy franchises love to commission sequels but have a patchy record on delivering second stories that match up to the first. Russell T Davies and Sharma Angel-Walfall got close to pulling it off here, but the much-touted Disney+ bigger budget may have worked against it out-scaring the original.

Midnight, where we first met this galvanic radiation-soaked entity in 2008, had a cast of eight trapped on one space transporter set barely bigger than a couple of SUVs. By contrast, the base and sets on planet 6767 were huge, and lacking the claustrophobia that could have made this even more terrifying.

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