Doctor Who Review: Sleep No More – The Good, The Bad And The Crumbly

By Mary Ogle /

7. A Foundation Of Shifting Sand

€œSleep No More€ crumbled under the weight of multiple character viewpoints that were too easy to dismiss because we were never allowed to get to know any of these people. There€™s a reason a found footage story is often focused through a single camera. When you keep switching from one narrator to another the story collapses into confusion. I suppose you could argue the dust was a single entity made up of component parts like a body filtering its experiences through separate cells that make up a whole. Perhaps what we experienced was the multi-faceted vision of an overlying consciousness but like everything else in this story that was never made clear. Perhaps Rasmussen€™s breaks into the narrative to explain a plot point were intended as a kind of glue to bind the structure of the story together but if so it wasn€™t successful. There were already too many perspectives to keep track of and Rasmussen€™s appearances felt jarring. They broke us out of the story rather than moving things along and it was difficult to settle back in and pay attention to the next bit.