1st January, 2019.
*Spoilers*.
Yes: it’s official.
I like TV, and I cannot lie.
And, after a day with little to do — New Year’s Day is a Bank holiday in the UK — something I was looking forward to.
Well … looking forward to, after I had dinner with my family.
Trust me, nine year olds and Monopoly don’t necessarily mix.
That’s a long story! Don’t even ask … !
At any rate?
I like watching TV.
There’s one I’ve watched for years.
Yes: you’re right …
Doctor Who is back on …
~≈®≈~
Episode 1 — Spyfall Pt 1 — sees Ryan (Tosin Cole), playing basketball with friends: after returning from he travels in series eleven.
Sees Yasmin (Mandip Gill) packing: telling both her family, and her boss, she’s on secondment.
Sees Graham (Bradley Walsh*) finishing his medical treatment for cancer.
Sees the Doctor repairing the TARDIS.
And sees all three abruptly summons by men in black: with matching cars.
Cars that officially take them to to see C (Stephen Fry): it seems the head of MI6 has a job for them.
It seems secret agents across the planet are being killed by mysterious aliens: who are invisible when needed, insubstantial when they need to get through walls, solid light if they choose to be intimidating.
The aliens? Also seem to be controlled by Daniel Barton of VOR: the world’s largest search engine.
The only person that can help? Is former MI6 agent, O (Sacha Dhawan†).
Innocent, laughingly geeky, O …
I’m looking forward to Sunday’s episode.
I really want to see how the team get out of that plane!
~≈®≈~
Now …
Good … ?
Fantastic?
Wonderful … ?
Oh my good gods, yes.
We have an opening episode that’s tense, well paced, wonderfully acted.
And has a twist that anyone watching the trailer for episode two …
Will guess at.
Sacha Dhawan’s character?
Is the Master.
And yes …
Going on this episode?
Series 12 could be very interesting …
* Who’s a fellow left-hander, I notice.
† Who played Waris Hussein, the man who directed An Unearthly Child, the original Dr Who story, in An Adventure in Time and Space. He also crops up in Chuggington, which fascinated my nephew … when he was about four …
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