This is something that I often crow the new Doctor Who does not do nearly enough of, and Dollard’s hand is so sure and steady that never once does the material come across as preachy. Despite being set in 1814, the script has a social conscience about numerous issues that ricochet off the past into the future, reflecting the here and now. It’s got no narrative gimmicks to weigh down her ideas, and it’s all effortlessly accomplished in 45 minutes.
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Given free rein to play in the Whoniverse, largely edict-free, Dollard delivers a brilliantly cracking yarn in “Thin Ice” with a proper beginning, middle, and end. That story and the season would have been better served by dropping the near-universally panned “ Sleep No More” altogether and giving Dollard an extra episode to flesh out her inventive trap-street universe with a two-part cliffhanger in which Clara realizes her impending death. It was a tough sell - it happened so fast and without fanfare, at an odd time of the season - so it was difficult to buy into, at a point when believability was necessary. Writer Sarah Dollard’s first contribution to Doctor Who was last season’s “ Face the Raven.” I was lukewarm on that episode, though that had little to do with Dollard’s script she was tasked with killing off Clara, yet not really. Photo: Jon Hall/Stuart Crouch/BBC AMERICA Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, Pearl Mackie as Bill.
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