Underrated Episode of Doctor Who Season 10: Knock Knock

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Today we talk about one of the most underrated episodes of Doctor Who series 10, Knock Knock.

As I’m sure many of you noticed, Doctor Who Watch hasn’t put out our ranking of Doctor Who Season 10 episodes. Don’t worry, I assure you that it’s coming. But before we give you that huge slideshow filled with opinions, I wanted to dedicate a post to the most underrated episode of the season.

Knock Knock. 

In case you forgot the episode, it’s about Bill and her friends as they take residence in an old house with a creepy landlord. Many people didn’t like the episode because Bill often tried to get the Doctor out of the house and was genuinely rude. There were also some missteps with music. (It sort of felt like an add for British pop band Little Mix).

Also, everyone lived. Those almost always mean that the episode is going to be forgotten rather easily. If everyone lives, there’s not much of a story to remember, is there?

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Short Recap (It’s okay! It was awhile ago)

In this case, that’s not true. What gave the episode such a great light was the issue with the “villain”, played by David Suchet. I put the word villain in quotation marks because was he a villain, really? The group of kids gets invited into the house, they’re made to sign a weird contract, and poof, they live in a castle.

During the stay, people continue to get eaten(?) by cockroaches and other animals, and they’re all to feed this wood monster that lives in the walls. The landlord keeps talking about his daughter, who they assume the wood creature somehow is. It turns out to be his mother. It’s a fantastic story of love between a son and a mother. The Landlord killed and did atrocious things to keep his mother alive because he couldn’t be without her.

Once the mother realizes what happened, she fixes it. Eliza controls the insects that ate Bill’s friends. Only after that, she makes them devour her and the landlord. This way, they can be together. Not exactly how I would have done it, but it works.

The Acting

Now, on its surface, this is a weird as anything episode. Cockroaches? Women in walls? Are we in The Shining? But it’s underrated because it’s an episode you have to watch to understand. Suchet’s acting job makes you forget that everything you’re watching makes zero sense. All you want is him back with his mother.

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It’s a perfect episode for anyone who understands the love for a parent to a child, and vice versa. There are so many lessons under everything that doesn’t make sense that make it such a good episode.