Doctor Who: EVERY Fifteenth Doctor Episode Ranked Worst To Best

7. Rogue

Love stories can be difficult to execute in Doctor Who. The audience has travelled with this person through time and space for 60 (Earth) years, so what's their criteria for love? There have been contenders (Rose and Yaz spring to mind) but stand-alone stories tend to do best. 

Consider The Girl In The Fireplace (still one of the best episodes of Doctor Who. This writer will die on this hill), Voyage Of The Damned and literally any episode featuring River Song - winning the Doctor's hearts can take a lot.

So, how does Jonathan Groff manage it in a scant forty minutes or so? Well, being Jonathan Groff certainly helps, but the overall tone and feel of Rogue (oh my Bridgerton!) sells the romance of the piece. 

Ncuti and Jonathan have a natural chemistry together. Though there were some raised eyebrows with this same-sex pairing (when aren't there raised eyebrows when it comes to Doctor Who?), nothing feels forced. The two characters simply work well together. 

There is a more-than-passing similarity to a certain Captain of the past and it feels as though Rogue was being set-up to become a new travelling companion for the Doctor. Despite his cameo in Wish World, it is now unlikely that Groff will return in the foreseeable future. Never say never though - Indira Varma returned and she was in an episode named after the fact they kept killing her. 

Stranger things have happened.