The Doctor's Christmas adventure in a futuristic London takes a heartwarming turn as he forms a unique bond with a hotel worker.
This year, The Doctor is flying companionless in “Joy to the World,” but still manages to make some meaningful connections. The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) lands in a London of the far future where the Time Hotel allows guests to celebrate Christmas across all of human history. Desperate and lonely, The Doctor latches onto a mysterious man with a briefcase as a distraction.
This leads to a chance meeting with another lonely soul on Christmas, Joy (Nicola Coughlan), as the two try to outwit a sentient weapon using the Time Hotel to gestate a star. This episode was written by former showrunner Steven Moffat, his second of the Disney Who era and arguably the same episode as the first. There’s a ticking time bomb, dead characters are resurrected in a computer matrix, the bad guys are the Villengard Corporation, and there’s even another daughter/parent reunion moment. Aside from the hotel and a dinosaur, “Joy to the World” is essentially “Boom: Christmas Edition”. That doesn’t make it bad by any means. “Boom” is excellent, a tight adventure with high stakes that gives Gatwa’s Doctor lots of room to breathe and swagger around the place being clever. What makes “Joy to the World” the superior adventure is actually when the bomb is removed. For about a quarter of the episode, The Doctor is taken out of the action and forced to spend a year in linear time working at a hotel until he can return to the action. He befriends a hotelier, Anita, and over the course of the year, The Doctor begins to examine how empty his nomadic life can be. Steph de Whalley as Anita is the episode’s real MVP. From the moment time travel and aliens enter her life, she accepts it as only someone that works the night shift at a rundown hotel can. She and The Doctor build one of the warmest friendships seen in the show’s long history. Through him, Anita begins to see the world outside her hotel as worth exploring, while she teaches him the importance of regular connection
DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL JOY TO THE WORLD REVIEW FUTURISTIC LONDON TIME HOTEL CHRISTMAS FRIENDSHIP ANITA STEPH DE WHALLEY MULTIVERSE VILLENGARD CORPORATION
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