From the Editor's Desk

The Longest-Running Sci-Fi Show is About to Bring Back its Greatest Weapon

Last week, Doctor Who stepped away from the enthusiastic whimsy of its previous episodes to hit Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor with his darkest and most intense challenge yet. The Steven Moffat-penned "Boom" trapped Doctor Who's endlessly clever, always on-the-go hero on a landmine and forced him to figure out how to avoid a planet-destroying catastrophe without moving, and the episode was well-received for its intense change of pace.

Now it looks like Doctor Who will continue exploring some of the darker possibilities of its latest era this week. While we don’t know much about the plot of the forthcoming episode "73 Yards," the brief teaser shows us a trip to Wales that takes a surreal, unnerving turn. It looks like the current era’s first pure horror episode, which is a promising development.

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