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Lucky Day
Lucky Day is the fourth episode of Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45.
It opens with a CGI New Year’s Eve, and Not-My-Doctor picking up someone’s 50p off the ground… erm… do you know how DISGUSTING that coin will be after it’s been on the ground?! And when has a Doctor ever spent money, anyway?
As for that kid, Conrad, who they bump into, if you came across some random individual offering you 50p – regardless of the TARDIS – you’d run a country mile! What’s the Doctor going to do for an encore? Show him some puppies?
That was 2007, and today – as Jonah Hauer-King (William Tell), he’s in 2025 doing a podcast with Ruby Sunday. Yes, in 2025, EVERYONE is doing fucking podcasts. I’m surprised people have time to listen to them, because they’re always making new ones for no-one to listen to.
She even states that the Doctor’s her “best friend”, even though he abandoned her. We didn’t need her family coming back into it, either. But then, RTD is all about DEI.
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— The Post Monument™ (@thepostmonument) April 10, 2025
Yet, Russell T Davies is already so desperate for ideas, that for episode 4, he’s brought back Ruby Sunday. Quite frankly, as I said before, Millie Gibson would’ve made a better job as the Doctor, but then ratings and viewers have proved that unless the Doctor is a white male, they’re not watching the show.
Before we get into the whys and wherefores, it’s ridiculous enough that in 2024, Conrad decides investigate weird noises coming from some abandoned building, which could lead to his body being ripped apart…
But then, it’s all blah-blah-blah about “The Shreek” which, typically, escapes and runs amok, but why do they look like men in rubber suits? Oh wait, that’s EVERY week…
Sadly, this doesn’t feature in this episode.
Kate from UNIT’s back in it, shagging on the premises, after hours, along with some of the other usuals, and notably, not the new Rose, who RTD emblazoned as a new, major character, only to stick her in the background on a tablet, saying around one line per episode.
And you know this is a fantasy drama, since when the lights go out in the pub, the barman tells everyone drinks are now free! THIS! NEVER! HAPPENS!
However, it turns into a side-mission episode, and Doctor-lite… and time for some spoilers.
Even worse will be those people who are paying a small fortune to watch the last two episodes in the cinema. Wouldn’t be so bad if you could watch them at no extra cost with a subscription, but they class them as “Event Cinema”, and charge up to £20, even though nothing’s actually live, and like any other film they’re just sticking a hard drive in and cueing it up.
To date, The Robot Revolution, had a terrible overnight ratings of just 2.0m, then despite all the simps claiming the ratings were bad because “nice weather”, before crying into their pronouns.
But… the overall ratings after 7-days, including all devices and iPlayer, were just 3.57m. As for Lux‘s overnights, just 1.58m. The 7-day ratings were a total of 3.0m.
The Well‘s overnights were surprisingly up, at 1.86m, clearly after all the fanbois banging on about Lux, but we know these ratings are only going one way…
This time, I’m guessing overnights of 1.5m.
Lucky Day on the BBC iPlayer, and on BBC1 at 7.10pm tonight.
Season 2 is available to pre-order on Blu-ray and DVD.
You can also buy Season 1 on Limited Blu-ray Steelbook, Blu-ray and DVD.
Score: I’d give Millie 1/10.
Director: Peter Hoar
Producer: Vicki Delow
Writer: Pete McTighe
Music: Murray Gold
Cast:
The Doctor: Ncuti Gatwa
Belinda Chandra: Varada Sethu
Ruby Sunday: Millie Gibson
Conrad Clark: Jonah Hauer-King
Kate Lethbridge-Stewart: Jemma Redgrave
Shirley Bingham: Ruth Madeley
Carla Sunday: Michelle Greenidge
Cherry Sunday: Angela Wynter
Louise Miller: Faye McKeever
Young Conrad: Benjamin Chivers
Moira Clark: Kirsty Hoiles
The Shreek: Gethin Alderman
Jordan Lang: Kareem Alexander
Elsa: Madison Stock
Sparky: Paddy Stafford
Jack: Blake Anderson
Michelle: Aoife Gaston
Alfie: Paul Jerricho
Derek: Michael Woodford
Colonel Christofer Ibrahim: Alexander Devrient
Audrey: Tina Gray
Individuals no-one cares about: Reeta Chakrabarti, Joel Dommett, Alex Jones
Influencers: Selorm Adonu, Calypso Cragg, James Craven
The Vlinx: Aidan Cook
Voice of the Vlinx: Nicholas Briggs
Mrs Flood: Anita Dobson
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