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Doctor Who – Season 9, Episode 4 Before the Flood

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Doctor Who – Season 9, Episode 4

Before the Flood

Aired Oct 10, 2015

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An alien warlord sets a twisted plan in motion in order to ensure his survival on a remote Army outpost, and the Doctor may have to do something unthinkable.

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Doctor Who provides a satisfying conclusion to the previous installment's cliffhanger with "Before the Flood," a playful and exciting episode.

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Catherine Gee

Daily Telegraph (UK)

10/12/2015

3/5

It's not too often that we get to see the Doctor peer at himself from around the corner (mercifully - it would get tired quickly), which invoked the warm familiarity of the sci-fi of yesteryear.

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Jennifer Hodson

Wall Street Journal

10/12/2015

All in all, tonight was a fun episode that gave us one of the more visually elaborate - and frightening - monsters in while: the Fisher King.

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Ross Ruediger

New York Magazine/Vulture

10/12/2015

5/5

Such a gimmick shouldn't work once, let alone twice, and yet here I found myself jumping around in my chair, punching the air with even more enthusiasm than last year.

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Emmet Asher-Perrin

Reactor

01/09/2019

The fact that [Cass] is a character with a disability played by an actress with that same disability is so important.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

06/19/2018

The best episode of season 9 so far and one of the best of Capaldi's run.

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Charlie Jane Anders

io9.com

05/19/2018

All in all, this was a creepy, scary two-parter that gained a lot of energy from the Doctor's palpable feeling of desperation.

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Synopsis

An alien warlord sets a twisted plan in motion in order to ensure his survival on a remote Army outpost, and the Doctor may have to do something unthinkable.

Executive Producer: Steven Moffat
Screenwriter: Richard Curtis, Chris Chibnall, Toby Whithouse, Mark Gatiss, Simon Nye, Steven Moffat
Network: BBC
Rating: TV-PG
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date: Oct 10, 2015