Doctor Who: The Haunting of Villa Diodati (2020)
Season 12, Episode 8
3/10
The music of the show has become depressing and weird
22 May 2023
This show used to have epic music scores, just listen to every track of the Heaven Sent and Hell Bent episodes. Now we're stuck with some weird Rip-off that reminds us of season 1 of Misfits' calmer tracks by Vincent Pope which I liked on Misfits, but doesn't fit in at all in Doctor Who. They don't fit in and they don't make sense. And this is on top of Chris Chibnall's awful, senseless, preachy writing, the squandered potential of the first female doctor (who they decided to make extremely socially awkward and filled with bizarre facial expressions) and her companions (or "fam) who are the most uninteresting characters to ever plague the series - ever. The only one in this season who has potential is Yasmin. They don't need Graham who has no outstanding personality traits whatsoever. He's literally just a boring old grandpa who is tagging along. Rose's mom was at least an interesting and colorful character. Graham and the other guy I can't ever seen to remember the name off (yes, he's that uninteresting) should be removed from this season and we'd all be happier for it.

I genuinely hope that the writers and showrunners realize that they've turned something wonderful, mysterious and magical into something bland and boring with little to no consistency. The storylines and the plot is paper thin ever since the 12th doctor bowed out.. I'm so sad. This used to be my FAVORITE show of all time ever since its revival, and now I genuinely dislike it a lot and don't know if I can suffer through any more episodes.

Thanks a lot, Chris Chibnall... You took something wonderful and you destroyed it.
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