Logline
When Joy checks into a London hotel in 2024, she opens a secret doorway to the Time Hotel — discovering danger, dinosaurs and the Doctor. But a deadly plan is unfolding across the Earth, just in time for Christmas.
Written by: Steven Moffat
Directed by: Alex Pillai
My initial reaction is that it was pretty good - not in the top tier of Christmas specials, but pretty good.
I would imagine that some people might not appreciate the lockdown stuff, but I don’t think it was pushing any kind of agenda - just acknowledging that there were some tragic side-effects of that whole situation.
What really struck me was how well the episode fleshed out Joy, Anita, Trev with fairly limited screen time. Ironically, Joy was probably the least fleshed-out, but Nicola Coughlan played the part very well.
Yeah. I didn’t take it as pushing an agenda, just acknowledging the pain from the sacrifice. Doing the right thing just sometimes feels awful.
I somehow missed that Joy had a line that was a (very) thinly-veiled reference to the fact that she had to go through all of this while Boris Johnson and his lot were out partying.