Smile
For her first ‘proper’ trip in the TARDIS, the Doctor takes Bill to a future Earth colony. But did this episode leave us with smiles on our faces?
REVIEW BY GRAHAM KIBBLE-WHITE
TELEVISION
BBC ONE
BROADCAST Saturday 22 April 2017
“I ’m happy, I hope you’re happy too.” This is how the Doctor mollifies an Emojibot. It’s a line that’s undergone a little revision from the shooting script, and it’s tempting to think it was Peter Capaldi himself who twisted it into Bowie. Perfect for Doctor Who’s own Thin White Duke. Perfect, in fact, to think the time traveller might be a devotee of ‘Zavid’. Particularly – and, yes, I’m going to stretch this thought right out until it gets me to where I need to be – as by the end of Smile, he’s become the man who sold the world.