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THE HALLOWEEN APOCALYPSE
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Review by PAUL KIRKLEY
FLUX: CHAPTER ONE
For Doctor Who, necessity has long been the mother of invention. Douglas Adams and Graham Williams locked themselves in Williams’ spare room and bashed out City of Death over a frantic, coffee-and-whisky fuelled weekend in 1979. Modern classics such as Tooth and Claw (2006) and Midnight (2008) were similarly panicked late replacements, while Steven Moffat’s solution to David Tennant and Freema Agyeman being otherwise engaged was to dash off a quirky little episode called Blink (2007).
And now, in 2021, the practicality of producing the world’s most insanely complicated TV show during a global pandemic has resulted in Doctor Who reinventing itself all over again – in a way that’s rather brilliant.