10 Most Hated Doctor Who Episodes

10. Arachnids In The UK

Arachnids in the UK is not as bad as some make it out to be. We'll get to the controversial points in just a moment, but beneath those, the episode is semi-competent, and had the potential to be among the best in Series 11.

That is, until it trips face-first onto concrete in the final 20 minutes.

First, let's tackle TrumpLite™. Robertson is a lazy and under-developed political allegory about as subtle as a grizzly bear at a birthday party, which allows the protagonists to take weak, kudos-winning shots at him throughout the episode. Trump is the easiest target for criticism currently walking the Earth, and yet this episode feels too scared to rock the boat, and somehow misses its planet-sized target.

This episode also features the most oft-referenced example of Thirteen's inconsistent and poorly thought-out moral code. At the end of the episode, Robertson mercy kills a spider with a bullet - granted, he doesn't do this with an ounce of compassion, but the Doctor's response of "Guns are bad, let’s lure them into a suffocation chamber instead" is a big oof, as is Ryan busting moves to "Sheffield's sickest grime station" as he uses Stormzy to pied-piper the spiders to their agonizing deaths.

Congratulations, you pitted the Doctor against Trump, and she somehow came off looking worse.