13 Darkest Doctor Who Endings Ever

The newest era of Doctor Who hasn’t gone too dark on the whole, but the ending of Season 1’s Dot and Bubble is particularly bleak and frustratingly avoidable.

We spend the episode following the waste of oxygen that is Lindy Pepper-Bean, a character so detestable that the monster of the week only turns evil because it hates her so much.

The first truly dark moment in the episode comes as Lindy turns on her saviour, Ricky September, to save her own skin, and we get a particularly brutal scene in which Ricky gets lobotomised by an angry ping-pong ball. But that’s not the worst of it.

We then find out the true reasoning behind the hostility of Lindy and her detestable little cabal of wannabe influencers. In short, they’re massive racists, and boy, the episode does not sugar-coat their treatment of Fifteen towards the end. It’s a tough watch. Despite their lack of gratitude and general disgust at his existence, Fifteen tries to save them, he still tries to be the Doctor. But they’d sooner doom themselves than accept his help.

This was the moment Ncuti solidified himself as the Doctor (and it was among the very first scenes he filmed, so bravo). It felt depressingly real and will live long in the memory.