By our British Correspondent
After the dark The Age of Steel, The Idiot's Lantern comes as a nice light change-of-pace story. Maybe a bit too light for some, but for me it was just about right. And this may be the best looking episode of DW ever. Clean cinematography, nicely framed close-ups, and an abundance of Dutch angles (look it up) make for some brilliant eye candy (and surprising for a story set in the rather bland post-War Britain). Which is good, because the plot is a bit on the thin side and the script is a tad more ho-hum than one would expect from Mark Gatiss. Still, style over substance isn't necessarily a negative in a visual medium such as television and it's nice to see director Euros Lynn pushing the envelope. I wouldn't want a steady diet of episodes like this, but it's a perfect lull between two intense 2-parters.
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