Doctor Who: Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord review – Ncuti Gatwa is the perfect Doctor with megawatt charm
Warning: this review is also a recap, meaning it contains spoilers for the episode
Fittingly for a series about adventures across space and time, the latest season of Doctor Who features an interstellar lead performance by Ncuti Gatwa. He’s a natural as the new custodian of the Tardis, both mischievous and mysterious, and is by far the best thing about the BBC’s biggest franchise as former showrunner Russell T Davies takes up the reins once again. In fact, Gatwa’s charm proves essential in two wildly uneven opening episodes, which suggest that Davies hasn’t quite got back into the galaxy-hopping groove yet.
Gatwa’s Doctor feels like a greatest hits of Time Lords past. He has inherited immediate . But he also has an air of fervent eccentricity that recalls the
