There are spiders on the loose in Sheffield, and these ain’t your average arachnids.
Her mother Najia (Shobna Gulati) has just started a new job at a brand-new hotel.
(Despite Najia’s best efforts, the Doctor only calls her Yaz’s mum.)
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After several episodes centering on Ryan and Graham, it’s nice to see Yaz finally (finally!)
step into the spotlight.
She yearns for something more, and that something has arrived in the form of the Doctor.
And it’s also arrived in Sheffield where things are not as they should be.
Specifically, there’s something very wrong with the spiders.
They’re flipping huge, and they’ve been attacking people.
It’s got giant spiders!
Who’ve been coming up through the pipes!
And wrapping people up in nasty cocoons!
It’s an arachnophobe’s nightmare, and it’s also a lot of fun.
Also, some of them are enormously large now.
So there’s that.
Is he Ed Sheeran?
Everyone talks about Ed Sheeran round about now."
In reality, he’s a pompous hotel magnate, who harbors presidential ambitions and loves firing people.
But Robertson shoots her anyway in cold blood, drawing the Doctor’s ire.
(Remember what the Tenth Doctor did to Harriet Jones, prime minister?)
It’s sort of a lame ending to an otherwise fun episode but there’s one more scene left.
The only thing is… they don’t want to.
And Graham, good old Graham, can’t stand the thought of going home to an empty house.
“See, Doc, the thing about grief is it needs time,” he says.
But being with you and seeing all these things, it really helps."
But they don’t mind.
Team TARDIS has seen a taste of the universe, and they’re eager to see more.
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