Doctor Who fans it's that time of the week and would you believe it we are less then a month away before the end of series 11 and since it's Monday you know what that means so here is my review of the latest Doctor Who episode Kerblam.
The plot of this weeks episode is the Doctor and friends get a message sent from someone from Kerblam an Amazon type company and must work who and why they sent it. Story wise I thought that the episode was pretty decent it's nothing great but it's the kind of plot that one would expect from a Doctor Who episode set at an online store and it helps that the pacing for the episode is pretty good as well.
Guest starring in this episode is Julie Hesmondhalgh as Judy Maddox Lee Mack as Dan Cooper , Callum Dixon as Jarva Slade , Claudia Jessie as Kira Arlo , Leo Flanagan as Charlie Duffy and Matthew Gravelle as the Voice of Kerblam. As a fan of this person it was really cool to see Lee Mack in a Doctor Who episode and I urge everyone to go and check out his show Not Going Out it's really funny and pretty much all f the guest stars are good in this episode.
Our regular cast of course in this so that means we have Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor , Bradley Walsh as Graham , Tosin Cole as Ryan and Mandip Gill as Yaz. For once I think that they gave Yaz the right amount of things to do in this episode she gets stuck in when it comes to the action and has some nice character moments and the acting from all four leads really does help sell this episode for me.
I just had to put up a picture of the Fez and I have to say that the BBC really did mess up when it comes to promoting this episode because they released the clip of Jodie getting the Fez at least a day or two before the episode aired so it really wasn't a surprise when she opened the box and pulled it out I have a feeling that that scene would have got more of a cheer or a laugh if they didn't release the scene and instead released another scene from the episode.
This episode has so many red herrings that i'm surprised red herring from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo didn't show up honestly for me the most logical choice for the main bad guy would have been the robots themselves and having it be one of the cleaners to me isn't the best choice while it does make sense in terms of the story up to that point we've had no reason to suspect him as being the one behind all of these people going missing and he has no motivation for doing it.
I'll admit that the whole sequence with Ryan , Yaz and Charlie going down to dispatch was perhaps the most fun sequence in the whole episode and it had me wondering why the whole episode wasn't more fun they had the chance to do some really fun stuff in this episode and they would have had the guest stars to help pull it of but they don't really take advantage of it.
Overall there was some aspects to this episode that I really liked but none that I loved so I can't really say that this is the worst episode of the series and it's clearly not the best but it is still a really good episode so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.