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Doctor Who – Season 10, Episode 3 Thin Ice

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Doctor Who – Season 10, Episode 3

Thin Ice

Aired Apr 29, 2017

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London residents turn out for the 1814 Frost Fair, but revelers are disappearing through the frozen Thames.

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"Thin Ice" uses a light touch and timely themes to bolster an episode driven more by character development than high-stakes drama.

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Ross Ruediger

New York Magazine/Vulture

02/07/2019

5/5

After watching the first three episodes, it feels as though Steven Moffat and company have done a marvelous job of accomplishing that mission by getting back to the basics.

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Hanh Nguyen

IndieWire

05/01/2017

B

While the lines weren't quite as quippy as the earlier episodes, [writer Sarah Dollard's] dialogue was compelling and revealing, and her character work was top notch.

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Steven Cooper

Slant Magazine

05/01/2017

With "Thin Ice," writer Sarah Dollard follows up last season's "Face the Raven" with another successful episode whose central focus is the relationship between the Doctor ... and his companion-in this case, Bill.

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Patrick Mulkern

Radio Times

11/27/2018

5/5

In Thin Ice, the Londoners look remarkably clean (a smudge here and there), the violence is mild and the language is censored.

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James Whitbrook

io9.com

05/19/2018

An immensely fun episode despite the darker material it played with, which is why it worked so well.

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Jef Rouner

Houston Press

05/09/2017

"Thin Ice" is the sort of story people love when it is safely in the '70s, but who wonder if it is talking about them now. Good. Art is politics, and Doctor Who, in the age of Trump, has brought a Tardis to a gunfight!

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Synopsis

London residents turn out for the 1814 Frost Fair, but revelers are disappearing through the frozen Thames.

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: Apr 29, 2017