1. Cats, And Lesbians, And Gospel. Oh My.
There's a lot to enjoy in "Gridlock". For one it has Martha Jones in it, who is rapidly becoming in my mind the most under-appreciated companion of the modern era. Additionally, it gives us a third view of the post-Earth era, and manages to show us not just a completely different view of the world than we saw in either "New Earth" or "The End of the World" but also a third view that seems to co-exist with the first two, making the era a richer and deeper place than it initially seemed, back at number 10 on this list. If you really look at it, there's a lot of the world around us right now that doesn't seem to logically fit with other parts of the world around us. In scripting terms it's called 'consistent inconsistency', and it's more or less at the heart of what Matt Smith was talking about when he said that the universe is large and complicated. By which I mean that when you reach the moment where a cat and his human wife are jokingly claiming to be offended at the thought of the married lesbian couple who live in the car two lanes over, just before we pause to complain about how there's never a cop around when you need one and then everyone stops to sing a quite lovely hymn together out of nowhere*... well, it just sort of feels right. Simultaneously insane and right. The world
IS so much stranger. And darker. And madder AND better. More like this please.
*Oh, and the entire planet has crabs. I'm sorry, I tried to resist saying that.