Class "For Tonight We Might Die" Review

Hello there Doctor Who fans here we are for the first time since 2005 with no new series of Doctor Who to digest so to help get us through this tough year the BBC have made a new spin-off series called Class and here is my review of episode 1 "For Tonight We Might Die".

The Plot for this episode is some shadow monsters are after an object that a pupil at Coal Hill Academy has and will stop at nothing to get it. That brief line that i just gave about the story for the episode is pretty much the entire episode but the episode has such a great pace to it that it feels like there is more story that could have been told within the episode.

At the start of this episode we are introduced to our main cast of characters Greg Austin as Charlie , Fady Elsayed as Ram , Sophie Hopkins as April , Vivian Oparah as Tanya and Katherine Kelly as Miss Quill in terms of the younger cast they do a pretty good considering that this could have been the first jobs for all of those actors as with any series it will take people a few episodes to get used to them i personally think that either Charlie or April will emerge as fan favorites but it's two early to tell. As for the adult cast the standout for me is by far Katherine Kelly who is just brilliant in this episode and a few scenes into to the episode you get the feeling that something is up with her character i won't spoil it here but she plays it well.

I will try and keep this as spoiler free as possible but if you havn't seen the trailer for the show then i won't spoil it but there is a cameo from a Doctor Who character in this episode that i just loved but at the same time it also reminded me that there was no Doctor Who series year. There is also a reference to a modern Doctor Who companion which if you know where Class is mostly set you can pretty much work which character i mean but it's still nice to see them reference this character.

In case you had any doubts that this wouldn't be as adult as the makers made it out to be trust me it is and the third act really makes it very clear you see someone get knifed in the back and you see the blood go all over another character and then later on you see that same character loose a limb that is something that Doctor Who wouldn't show. That's about as adult as episode one really got but that was all it really needed to get as the first episode was all about setting up the characters and the relationships between the main cast.

Not gonna lie i thought the monsters for this episode looked really freaking cool i honestly couldn't tell if they were all CGI or just had CGI added to them but they were really pretty to look at and they looked really freaking scary as well and i hope that the rest of the monsters for this series look as good as the ones in this episode do.

A lot of the adult stuff in this series comes from the fact that the series is being aired on BBC Three and not the main BBC ONE which i think is great because it allows this series to go places where Doctor Who can't go but with the series also airing on BBC ONE i have to wonder would the series loose some of that edge when they re-air the episodes because they would have to make alot of edits to make it go out before 9pm.

Overall as first episodes go this was really good i couldn't help but notice that at times the pacing was pretty bad but in a first episode that's to be expected and i loved how they explained why Coal Hill looks different the young cast will also take some getting used and i know episode 2 is out already and will be watching it later on today so expect a review for that episode as well i give episode one an 8.5 out of 10