It’s quite a lot of plot to pack into an episode that also needs to slow down at points so that it can effectively deliver the measured, creeping dread that a ghost story demands. The core story itself has little time for them because it’s too busy bombarding us with pretty much kind of scary moment you can think of, from figures appearing in flashes of lightning to vases hurtling across the room, and there’s a missing person mystery on top of it all. The dialogue shines a lot of the time, Byron’s sleazy but without being too unlikeable, and there are a couple of laugh-out-loud jokes – Fletcher the valet is a particular delight. Happily, this week’s script is easily deft enough to support such a famously witty cast of guest characters. The haunted house in question is the titular villa where, famously, Lord Byron and a number of his friends whiled away ‘The Year Without a Summer’ writing – and thus, Mary Shelley was inspired to create Frankenstein.
We’ve had gaseous ‘ghosts’ in “The Unquiet Dead” and an otherworldly creature rampaging through a mansion in “ Hide,” and now it’s the Thirteenth Doctor’s turn to strap on a proton pack (or at least wave the sonic around) and go bust some ghosts in “The Haunting of Villa Diodati.” It’s the spooky one! Most years since Doctor Whoreturned in 2005 have seen an episode that delves gleefully into something supernatural, even if it does usually turn out to be aliens in the end. This article comes from Den of Geek UK and contains spoilers.
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