Peter isn’t given a whole lot to do in the episode, which is fine. All the guest actors do fine jobs none of them really stand out, but they were all good. Somehow the episode benefits from having mediocre visual effects I was pleasantly surprised by this. Several times, lightning flashes behind the house, and it looks so cheap, but it actually adds to the atmosphere by making it feel like an old horror movie. I loved how cheesy the visual effects looked in the episode. Once again, Bill Anderson does a fine job directing, though the shining stars really are the people behind the sound mix. I don’t want to be trapped in an old house, with no way out, surrounded by loud knocking that I can’t identify, and then be potentially absorbed into the wood of the house. I like that the Landlord was given a motive for what he was doing, but I still found the idea of what was happening to be a frightening one, regardless of the motivation behind it. Some reviews have said that the third-act reveal makes the episode as a whole less scary, and I disagree. The episode’s not gonna win any awards for superb storytelling, but it’s a fine episode. It just really makes the atmosphere work and gets you in that zone of heightened tension that’s so conducive to being scared by horror movies.Īs for the plot, it’s not the strongest plot ever, but it’s not bad. There’s something about a loud knock coming from right behind your left ear that makes you jump, and it’s effective to then hear another knock coming from in front of your right ear. You can understand why the characters are reacting the way they are. Being able to hear the various knocks coming from all sides of you genuinely adds a lot to the experience. The sound design of this episode was integral to creating the atmosphere needed to make it work. And it has, as every good horror movie must, an incredibly spooky atmosphere. Condensed into forty-five minutes, obviously. Knock Knock is, at its heart, a horror movie. Did it work beautifully and serve the story, and the episode, well? Absolutely. Is a special binaural mix version of an episode a gimmick? Yeah, definitely. So, the version of Knock Knock that I watched was the binaural version on BBC iPlayer, and I definitely think this version is probably the version to watch. It gives them their own sense of urgency they choose what they’re doing and when they do it. It gives them another dimension and lets them have characteristics of their own instead of always having their characters be tied up with the Doctor. I also dug her reluctance to let the Doctor interfere with the goings on in the house she wants him to be separate from some parts of her life, and I’m really digging this trend of having the companions have separate lives outside of their lives with the Doctor. It’s great to see her being written with such consistency. Turns out, Bill is an even more amazing character when she’s not around the Doctor! Everything great about Bill that’s been observed since the season began is very much still on display in this episode. I know for the past few weeks I’ve been praising the show for focusing so much on the dynamic between Bill and the Doctor, but it’s time to see if Bill can stand on her own as a companion without the Doctor always being onscreen with her. For much of the episode, Bill and the Doctor aren’t onscreen together. Unlike the previous three episodes, Knock Knock returns to a more typical Doctor Who formula: weird things happen, the Doctor and the companion get caught in the middle of it, and they spend the rest of the episode solving the mystery. What is causing these noises and disappearances, and can Bill and the Doctor put a stop to it before it’s too late? As always, this review will have spoilers for the episode – so, stop reading now if you haven’t seen it! As the house starts making noises, Bill’s friends begin to disappear. In this episode, Bill (Pearl Mackie) and several of her friends move into a creepy old house owned by a mysterious Landlord (David Suchet). The fourth episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who has just aired, so it’s time to review it! This week’s episode of Doctor Who was entitled Knock Knock and was written by Mark Bartlett and directed by Bill Anderson.
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