Doctor Who: EVERY Fifteenth Doctor Episode Ranked Worst To Best

17. Wish World

Wish World has many things going for it, not least of which is Archie Panjabi's scenery-chewing turn as the Rani. Those Bone Beasts were gorgeous, even if they were a tad superfluous. Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu were sublime as Mr and Mrs. Smith, though Millie Gibson shone as Ruby here.

Perhaps the episode's biggest flaw is the exposition dump at the end - though even that is cleverly useful for the episode's arc. Introducing the idea of Omega at the eleventh hour was a little too much on top of everything else - the Rani, Desiderium, Conrad, Bone Beasts, the Stepford London, Ruby's mission - there was a lot going on. 

Rogue's cameo sadly felt more out of place than anything (why was he able to contact the Doctor? Was he really in hell? Was he with Omega? What was going on?), despite how much fun it was to see Jonathan Groff again. Discovering, via Doctor Who Confidential, that he filmed his scene while making Rogue was a bit of an eyebrow-raiser.

Wish World stumbles to stand on its own, though tying it to The Reality War does it little favours. As a penultimate episode, it does raise some stakes and even features a cameo from a popular YouTuber to boot.