10 Doctor Who Episodes That Had The Balls To GO THERE

Written by Ed Hime, this stands as one of the Thirteenth Doctor’s most surreal and experimental stories. Moving away from standard alien-invasion tropes, the episode becomes an existential, fairytale-infused examination of grief.

The story opens in a secluded Norwegian cottage, where the Fam meet Hanne, a blind girl, hiding from an unseen creature. Inside Hanne's house, they find a mirror acting as a portal between realities; the Doctor and her companions cross the “Anti-Zone,” From a technical standpoint, to demonstrate how we’re now within a mirror, this other world is entirely flipped a cool detail that adds to rewatchability.

This episode worked brilliantly as a much-needed character study, asking questions about accepting what you want to see versus what is actually there, and how one might need to give up a world that has something they’re missing.

The climax features one of the most surreal concepts in the show's history: the Solitract, a sentient universe incompatible with ours, which lures grieving individuals (like Erik and Graham) by projecting perfect imitations of their deceased loved ones, resulting in the Doctor emotionally reasoning with a cosmic universe taking the form of a talking frog.

It’s bizarre, heartbreaking, and quintessential Doctor Who.