DID IT SUCK? | Doctor Who Flux #1 [HALLOWEEN APOCALYPSE REVIEW] 

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If you were confused about the Liverpool 1820 segment it's about the construction of the williamson tunnels. Theres a massive network of tunnels built under liverpool by a rich victorian philanthropist with seemingly no purpose so I imagine its gonna try and explain that

I went into this episode with the expectation I needed to turn my brain off to enjoy it. It started wobbly for me but I did really enjoy it overall. It is fully a trailer feeling episode as you said. Thanks for the review! Signed up to Patrion because I was excited to hear what you thought!

Guys this was a real pleasure to make I can't believe I managed to whip this up in the time that I did. Please consider making a pledge on my Patreon if you want to support the craft that goes into writing and editing these reviews. I only have one little correction/note I wanna point out, please feel free to add your own to the discussion. I realised only a few hours ago that Dan's "job" was actually shown (not told lmao) to us at the end of the New Year's special. I *think* he's a painter, but nothing in the new episode really confirms this, so I'm just assuming he's a man with a van...

To be fair, they did mention that the ships were meant to attach together to make a new makeshift habitat for the humans since the earth was going to be destroyed, so that does explain why they're so big despite only holding 1 person. Anyways great video, looking forward to the next!

This episode constantly flipped from being great, to suddenly being god awful, then immediately jumping back to being great again. This happened about six times into the episode. HIGHLIGHTS: - Dan. All of him, from his opening bit in the museum, to his relationship with Diane, to the scene where he looks at his empty cupboard (Powerful stuff, glad it's being covered, even in brief!) - The bit with Claire talking to The Doctor and Yaz, and her bit with the door. - The Weeping Angels as a whole. - The Space Hound, and his entire deal. That whole plot was great, I loved it. - Yaz having the most character she's ever had (Though Dan still has more development than she does, sadly). - The Doctor using the virus from Orphan 55 was good, I love it when The Doctor uses stuff we saw them pick up earlier. LOWLIGHTS: - The opening scene with the stupid antigravity circus training being the solution to the problem. That was the worst bit of the whole episode. - The bit where the swarm said "Trick or Treat" directly at the camera. - The Chilli Guy in the Arctic Circle scene. A typical Chibnall "made to die" character with no personality. - The planets being destroyed looked bloody awful. (Also, did the rest of the Solar System get destroyed since they only surrounded Earth? What happened to the moon? Or the sun? Are the Ice Warriors refugees now? They should have made a half pipe to flip the flux a different direction.) - The bit where Yaz and The Doctor are talking about their attitudes to eachother that was immediately interrupted by an alarm. (To quote the great J Exci "Character time is over, now it's time for plot!") That scene fitted the stereotype so well it felt almost like a self-aware jab at itself. - The worrying feeling I have about the Swarm's abilities to regenerate themselves means that they're something to do with The Doctor's pre-Timeless Child origins from beyond the purple portal.

Must admit it was better than what I was expecting. John Bishop is surprisingly good imo

You know you’re watching a Chris Chibnall episode when 30 seconds into the episode there’s already a countdown

The TARDIS can change shape whenever it wants. If there's something wrong with it, why wouldn't odd shapeshiftey things happen. The new doors thing seem in line with that.

Whatever disadvantages this episode has, can we agree that it's the best introductory episode of Chibnal era? In previous seasons introductory episode was quite disappointing.

The flux is RTD coming to end the chibnall era

i have a theory about the weeping angel, i think thats not an evil Weeping Angel. I think that lady is an loop, the angel sends her back every time she fails to prevent whats happening.

This episode was pure JJ Abrams mystery box nothingness. Can't wait to see how Chinballs fails to pay off any of it. Let's hope he doesn't ruin the show anymore when he does.

I probably would have enjoyed any of the many subplots if they were the only focus of the episode. I was particularly intrigued by the guy in the observation satellite, and the Dan abduction/rescue subplots. However, with the runtime split between that and the numerous other subplots, the whole thing felt exceptionally overstuffed and unfocused.

The thing about the Tardis bed and handcuffs also struck me too.

I’ll also never understand why Clare didn’t just close the damn door instead of staring at the angel until she blinked.

For a Chibnall episode this is good. The Doctor finally feels like the Doctor. Jodie seems more confident in the role now. Yas finally gets some development and is actually confronting the Doctor over her actions. It’s so nice to see this. The effect of Ryan leaving the Tardis has resulted in this and makes the show so much better. The special effects are stunning, but as per with the rest of the Chris Chibnall era the writing and dialogue is a bit iffy. It’s not perfect and has some issues. Chris Chibnall can write some good content but there is always something boring about it. However, saying that, this is still a good episode to start off the six chapter. I feel Chris Chibnall may well be more comfortable writing chapters with arcs over 6 stories. He clearly enjoys classic Doctor Who mixed with the RTD era & I feel it will work well for Series 13. While Chris Chibnall’s writing can be boring and bland, he does classic villains really well imo! The Sontarans look amazing and the next chapter should make the Sontarans a serious force again.

The first thing I said after seeing this was "That was an interesting trailer for the upcoming series..."

This is the only Chibnall episode I've ever enjoyed and it was actually good

Being in Ireland unable to stream doctor who in any legal way I'm happy you are here to tell me I didn't miss anything special 😂

My prediction: The Flux isn't destroying stuff. It's just something that happens when something major happens which causes the course of the whole universe to change, basically going against everything we've been told before about fixed points in time. It's technically erasing the current known universe but everything is just being moved to the modified universe. Somehow The Doctor and everyone else in the Tardis manages to cross over without any damage and all their knowledge of the previous universe.

I know why people liked it, nothing really happens except setting up the flux and bad guy, and the 90% other was pointless so Chibnall couldn't mess it up easily

I thought there was too much going on in this episode but I still kind of enjoyed it mainly because of John Bishop and the dog alien.

honestly I quite enjoyed this episode. Maybe it's just me but it was a huge improvement

I'm glad I'm not the only 1 who wasn't really impressed by this episode. It's really was just an extended trailer with lots of mystery boxes and shock for shock value. I have a hard time getting excited over 20+ plot threads being thrown at us, given that usually it's much easier to set up "mysteries" than actually give a satisfying answer and conclusion, along with it's still Chibnall writing this. Plus if I'm gonna be honest, I feel like a good chunk of these plot threads won't be even explained, like the sister being disguised and part of the Division for some reason. I hope I will be proven wrong though. Will see how this goes but so far not impressed.

Pros: more energetic, more action packed. And (personally) Dan is funny/charming enough that I already like him. Con: everything else. Its SO rushed and chaotic that it has "Stuff Is Happening And It Means Something, We Promise" fatigue.

I'm hoping that the rest of the episodes are going to focus on one or two things, not 17 different things. Like "War of the Sontarans" sounds like it's most going to, well, a war featuring Sontarans. The Halloween episode was cluttered and Chibnall still doesn't know who to trim dialog, create an actual funny joke, or give us any reason why, after two seasons and two specials, we're supposed to care about Yaz,. But I assuming that each episode after this will be individual stories that are still tied somehow with the rest of Chibnall master plan. And, despite it being cluttered, it still held my interest.

I love how you roast the bad parts and tell it like it is; I have so many friends who are ready to praise literally anything chibnall puts out so it was really refreshing to see a more thought-out opinion. Thanks for the laughs, your channel continues to be a delight!

A moment of silence for the 1 subscriber Harry lost during the premier of this review. "mark" was got by the weeping angels.

With the visuals and music of this doctor's series, I think they've really tried to make it look like one of those abstract films like Annihilation, etc. Just an observation but it's funny how they're trying this sort of style when you look back at previous iterations like Ecclesto's, Tennant's and Smith's runs, the art style wa very different. You could just see it as doctor who immediately but the new ones are either too green screeny or too abstract to tell it's who. It's a decent idea since the setting allows for it but the execution is odd coming from someone who preferred the aforementioned doctors' series.

SPOILERS.... (had to be done - all in good fun. I enjoyed the episode for what it was). . . . . . . . . . . . Audience: Hey, so I thought the Division was a Gallifreyan thing that was comprised of mainly Timelords doing black ops stuff. Why would they also employ a Dog Man, and if they did, why was he allowed to leave with his memories intact? And how did the Doctor even find out about him if the Division covers its tracks so well? Chibs: Don't know. But we're here now. Just go with it. Audience: Hey, so if Swarm is so dangerous and being held in this big old space prison in the middle of nowhere and these two Division ladies are there to make sure he can't get out, why are they so woefully unprepared to deal with him when he does escape? And why did the prison fail? It just turned off its defenses and let him go. How? Why? How did he actually manage this escape? Did he plan this? Was it an accident? What gives? It's never mentioned again. Chibs: Don't know. But moving on... Audience: Hey, so if Swarm is so dangerous that he has to be held in some big old space prison, how come his seemingly equally dangerous sister is just hiding inside the body of an Artic housewife? Chibs: Because. Audience: Hey, so how did Swarm get to the Artic? Chibs: Er... unclear. Audience: Also, was his sister, like, unknowingly trapped inside that woman's body? Did the woman know she was in there? Did her man know? What's all this about? Chibs: Hey look! Sontarans! Dog People! Weeping Angels! Audience: Hey, so if the dog people are meant to protect humanity why would the main Dog Guy actively try to kill Yaz? Why wouldn't he simply tell the Doctor what he's up to? Chibs: Also unclear... Drama? Audience: Hey, so Dan just loves his city so much he doesn't want to look for work because he's too busy pretending to be a tour guide because he just loves everything so much he's practically glowing. He has no food, but refuses to use food banks for fear of taking a can of soup away from someone more in need... so, what's with the OTT need to make him some sort of grinning saint? Chibs: We have to do the work so the audience doesn't assume he's evil. Also, he might be evil. Audience: Right... Chibs: Right. Audience: Hey, so if Dan has no food or money, how was he gonna go on a date with the nice museum lady without at least paying his way? What was the plan there? Chibs: Doesn't matter now, does it? Audience: Hey, so the universe-ending energy hurricane can't get past a special dog spaceship formation? Because their hulls are made of a special material that it would seem doesn't exist anywhere else in the known universe... That was handy, wasn't it? Chibs: I know. Isn't sci-fi great when it's done well? Audience: Hey wait a minute. So there were like 7 billion dog ships coming to Earth. One for each human? Chibs: Yup. Man's best friend. Audience: But... does that mean literally one human per ship? Chibs: I guess so. (Looks at the script) I mean, that's what it says in here. Audience: So the dog people were coming to literally rip newborn babies from the parents' arms and put them on their own ships? Kids were gonna be locked in those electrified floor cages with no food or water or idea of what was happening to them? Old people with dementia too? Disabled people? People with learning difficulties or a neurodivergence? Those cages were barely big enough for Dan to fit inside without zapping himself, what if a big person had to fit in there? This is horrifying! Chibs: Oh my God that *is* horrifying. Audience: So is that what they were going to do?! Chibs: Unclear. Glad they didn't though. That woulda been dark. Audience: Unclear?! You're the writer! Chibs: *shrugs* Audience: Hey, so how could that guy from Outpost Rose outrun the Flux in a dinky little escape pod but the TARDIS couldn't? Chibs: Because the plot needs to happen. Audience: Hey, so the Flux is a lot like Cloud Galactus, and Parallax, and the snap, and the Nexus from Star Trek. Aren't you worried about this looking a bit derivative? Chibs: Not at all! People don't watch Star Trek, anyway. Or remember things. We're safe as kittens. Audience: Hey, so the 13th Doctor has caught a bit of stink in the past for being an uncaring, dismissive, incompetent Doctor. You don't do her any favours when you have her actively ignore a person who clearly knows her, but from a different point in her timeline, is clearly in trouble, and says a red flaggy phrase like "I'm going home the long way round". And 13 doesn't even blink. She just leaves her there and doesn't pick up on the distress this woman's in, or that she might have answers as to what's going on. And then the woman gets done in by an Angel. That's weirdly incompetent of the Doctor. I could never see 11 missing a chance like that to help someone or probe further. Or 12. Or 10. No other Doctor would have done that... okay, maybe 6. Did you just intentionally nerf her perceptiveness here so the plot could happen? Chibs: Well, the plot did happen. So... Audience: Hey, so when Claire's getting stalked by the Angel, are we expected to feel a sense of tension around the idea that if she gets inside her house, she'll be able to escape? From an Angel? The species that's been shown previously to be able to force its way inside reinforced blast-proof spaceship doors? A wooden front door is gonna stop it? Really? It kind of undermines the tension a bit, doesn't it? Chibs: Hey why don't you shut up and move on? Audience: Hey, so a big criticism of series 11 and 12 was the paper-thin writing for the companions. No one got to shine very much, least of all, Yaz. She was a thinly written, inactive, exposition machine who seemed to exist to ask questions and be told what to do. But now she's a gruff, snarky, I-can-do-anything girl boss. She's hacking security codes for the dog man's human cage, she's reading radiation levels from the TARDIS console, she's doing judo flips on rocket-powered hoverboards, and even helping to pilot the TARDIS. That's a sharp change in characterisation and ability without showing the audience that development. Chibs: Wait, I know this one... (reads notes)... I've just written "Make Strong Female Character" here. Did we not do that? Audience: ... Chibs: ... Audience: ... Chibs: Yaz is probably gay, by the way. Audience: Hey, so Liverpool 1820, Weeping Angels, Sontarans, Spooky House, Outpost Rose... what's the deal with all that? Chibs: Don't worry about that. That stuff's in the "Later Drawer". But it sure does make episode 1 feel fast-paced and substantive without actually having to follow through on anything, doesn't it? It's what great writers call "jangling the keys". Audience: Chibs: It was Moffat's favourite technique. I think he'd like this epsiode. Audience: Like... the technique he used in Time of the Doctor? And the Wedding of River Song? The technique to move at a million miles an hour, throw tonnes of info at the audience that they don't need, and spin so many plates that he's scrambling to pay off all his nudge-nudge-wink-wink setups? That technique? Chibs: Brilliant, isn't it? Audience: Right, yea. Brilliant. Those episodes aged super well. Look, one last thing. Chibs: Shoot. Audience: Our universe isn't trillions of light-years in size. And those are the wrong Sontarans. And the Master shouldn't be evil now. And this Timeless Children thing makes so little sense. And I hate these Daleks and the fact that no one on Earth can remember them... again. AND WHY IS A PRE-HARTNELL DOCTOR RUNNING AROUND IN A POLICE BOX CALLING THEMSELVES THE DOCTOR?! STOP IT. Just stop it! Chibs: (waggles eyebrows) Audience: What? Chibs: You're right. Audience: I am? Chibs: Yes, you are. *Our* universe isn't that big. But an alternate one might be. Audience: Ohhhhhhh Chibs: Ahhhhhhh Haaaaa Audience: Yes, please do that. Chibs: ... Chibs: NO.

the doctor becomes northern.....and literally everyone else in the series including the aliens are northern as well.....

I low-key liked it BUT this is just the first episode. Let’s see her actually do something Doctory

So that "Obi Wan Kenobi" bit as harry called it actually something I've been wanting the show to do SINCE CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON! because in "Rose" they do the whole bit about the fact that the Doctor "Feels the rotation of the Earth" and all the life on it that's honestly a genuinely pretty cool idea and gives the Time Lords a sense of real cosmic power... and then they completely forget about it, do nothing with it and have done nothing with that ever since Then Jodie brings it back granted it's slightly changed to be more "visions" and feeling the *universe* as opposed to planets but I'm just happy they've finally done something with that little detail they had lying around since the first episode of NewWho

My predicted rating of Doctor Who Season 13 is a "Just watch Timeless on Netflix for god's sake they actually put effort in"/10

The only thing I HATE about this episode is the claustrophobic nature of the sets seen with The Karvanista’s ship, and Sontaran ship. We also saw this in the Daleks ship in Revolution Of The Daleks. What happened to MASSIVE settings seen in Parting Of the Ways or Journey’s End?? Hell even the Sicorax’s rock ship???

I just watch these videos now instead of the episodes.

Been looking forward to this!

Don't know anymore if i enjoyed this episode because my expectations are so pitifully low now that I desperately cling to anything that slightly peaks my interest or if it actually is good. Chibnall's era has completely fried my senses Either way, I am looking forward to seeing where this goes

Bruh I thought my TV was messed up during that Liverpool transition, I refused to believe you could mess up a shot like that and NOT re-do it!

Clare is clearly Chibnall trying to bring back the whole mystery of River Song 😂

holy, i have not laughed this hard in a while - such a good recap before part 2

That was a good review, I'm looking forward to War of the Sontarans.

I actually thought this episode was really good

First time I hear anyone else than me talking about that Jedi mind trick performed by Chewbacca

This video just reinforces why I am not feeling any fomo for missing any of the previous few series. Used to love Dr who - it looks like a bad written episode of red dwarf without the gags.

Awh when the Dr says let me zoom out and then proceeds to zoom in on the screen of the war ships. The when the house gets shrunk it cuts to another scene, liek i wanna see the dr reaction, oh wait that will be shown later.

I was told going in, that this season was structured like a classic eara season. Multiple episodes covering one long story. As such, my expectations met reality and I found that where previously I'd have to turn off my brain, this season was clearly produced by a team who actually knew what they were doing. Gone are the huge sections of tell don't show. The dialogue feels far less artificial, in some places replaced entirely with body langauge and acting. the show is no explaining basic sci-fi premises, like we're idiot children, and instead assumes your smart enough to understand them, and background elements are put there on purpose to hint at upcoming story elements. Oh, and the cinematography is done by people who actually know how cinematography works. As for the music. Unlike the previous two seasons of elevator music. The music actually matches, sets up and deliberately manipulates the mood. Oh, and best of all, the preachyness has been completely removed. Unlike the last two seasons, this season was produced by people who are actually competent. The trouble is, after the unmittigated awfullness of the last two seasons, people are emotionally coloured against this doctor, and are understandably hyper criticle of a show that spent 2 seasons insulting it's male audience right to it's face with lines like "Hi, I've had an upgrade." This season is so different, I would not be surprised to find out that chibnal is little more than a figure head.

It only occurred while watching your review that Claire is fully aware of the Weeping Angels - but is *then* blinked back in time. I wonder if she'll have a Blink style episode where she seemingly survives, and then they'll meet her again in the episode set in the past and be like "what, I thought you survived?!". Or, maybe she just keeps getting blinked over and over again and that's why she's so-- addled in the brain.

Harry and Harbos friendship is iconic

I am really surprised that no comparison has been drawn between the Flux and Davros plan to also destroy everything at molecular scale in Season 4. In fact, it was kind of cool seeing what this would have looked like up close rather than dots of lights disappearing.

The first episode was obviously as setup for what's to come, but it's a good setup. It made me curious of what's to come and that's a good thing.

I am writing to congratulate the people brave enough to sit through the entire episode, and having a strong will, not to turn this off, and actually get through the end, your alot braver the me. Dr Who ended with Peter Capaldi.

Band of Dogs? Oh! I thought you were talking about the Doctor and Yaz.

The most refreshing Doctor Who ep in years imo. Dialogue not the best but as a plotline goes it’s not bad.

Your calculations: I guess one could argue it depends how close those ships were to the earth when they formed the sphere around it. How close would you say the ships were when you did your calculations? 😅 Ive noticed people complain and say "well where have the lupari been every other time the earth was in trouble" and initially I'd agree with them. But perhaps in this situation they knew about the Flux way in advance. Every other time things have happened to the earth before they could save the humans. Plus maybe it's a.... Newly established agreement? 🤷‍♂️😅

You know, it was a lot better than I expected

This video confuses me. Throughout the main part it sounds as though you disliked it, but your conclusion gives the opposite impression that you enjoyed it as a 'trailer' for the rest of the series. Which is exactly what the beginning of a six-part story should be.

"This isn't war. This is pest control."

I agree with everything you said, I am interested in the rest though. What I really dislike is the music. Will murry gold return with davis?

I can't wait for the scrunch face Assassin of joy to go.

15:28 I laughed so hard at this “what planet? Who cares? Who are the people? Again. Who cares?”

Overall this episode seemed alright, and I really like the concept of the flux so far, but there are just too many seemingly unrelated places all being shoved in your face for me to call it good. Once the plot of the doctor got going that was decent, but the arctic circle place and that victorian guy or whatever for example were just pointless and made a very shaky start. 5 or 6 out of 10 for me I'd say.

Nice ringtone

3:30 Well Big Finish needs SOMETHING to work with.

Iim thinking the theories that the doctor is connected to the division what makes me say this is when that creature (who had been imprisoned since the beginning of the universe) said that the guard that was to retire that "he's seen those eyes for a thousand years...." could this mean that they can regenerate and are from where the Doctor came from? Thus making a little sense to the timeless child story line.

I think that people will probably prefer the following episodes as they (hopefully) won't be crammed with a lot of plot points and can each focus on a couple per episode. I'm probably looking forward to whatever episode will have The Weeping Angels in most, hopefully they stay on "Blink" mechanic and no "snapping your neck" like in Time Of Angels/Flesh And Stone.

4:34 this is adorable

I liked it. Busy, but we’ll see how it plays out.

did it suck?....hold my beer

I did notice this season had, like, zero 'vid references.

Okay so I read a book that was a doctor who and it was about the 13th doctor group, and they actually got developed in spite of the fact it wasn't even Canon to the show

The camera moving into the window being that shakey really annoys me

I think your maths on the ships sizes is wrong. 0.073km sq is 73m sq. Which is roughly 8.5m x 8.5m, probably about the size of the room Dan was imprisoned on.

Also if the dog people's job was to save the human race why did the doggo tie Yaz over a sea of acid? Surely she is one of the people his species is protecting?

8:24 Can someone else please confirm to me, that they were as surprised as I was by how enormously large this person´s eyes were!... Like, I was legit scared...

yes. yes it did

I just watch reviews of this show now. Can not BEAR Jodie as the doctor, so no longer waste 40+ mins of my life on it. Couldn't they have found a better actress for this iconic role! AND they need to lose the sonic screwdriver! Sick of seeing it as a get out of jail card.

Nice ringtone.

Pretty much what I was expecting . I was expecting crap and crap was what we got.💩

I really think you should give each episode a score and then have a score for the whole thing at the end

10:25 absolutely killed me

Maybe it's because I haven't watched any Chibnall who in 18 months (apart from Revolution of the Daleks which I watched at 2am while Drunk), but this was phenomenally bad, even by Chibnall's incredibly low standards. It reminded me a lot of the Rise of Skywalker, as they're both just an overwhelming barrage of set peices happening back to back to back. It's kind of hard to judge what these plot threads are going to become, but hopefully it can be mildly better than this.

also my thought with this episode is it would be a pretty solid episode if all 6 parts were released all at once, like netflix binge shows, waiting 2 months for some of this stuff to be resolved is just annoying. i don't think it should have been released at once or anything, the episode just feels like it was written for that format

I’m so glad you also noticed that terrible digital zoom into the museum. I can’t believe the level of don’t care the Chibnall era has had.

I just billed it down to a crappy assignment for that rotation guy rather than a prisoner.

This episode was the final nail in the coffin for me. The doctor pulling classic manipulation on Yaz like an abusive partner, and running about like a hyperactive child The cheesy, childish, coincidence ridden script. Dan, who is so pushed as being the lovely nice guy that it comes off as creepy and dull. The God awful dog costume The flux itself which has no sense of space, speed, distance and therefore becomes confusing before it's scary. The many many subplots that have no development which destroys the episodes pacing, focus, and structure, meaning the actually relevant bits need to be rushed. So ye, overall better than expected

Tbf to the episode, Dan was shown to be a plasterer at the end of the last special (Think it was then)

Did the Liverpool tourism board sponsor the episode or something? What was up with all the Liverpool landmarks and Dan and the doctor talking about how great Liverpool is?

I knew i recognized him! Grey worm ofc!

I really wish that they gave us 7 more episodes before this one so that the Series would have 13 and be not so ark focused.

The dog people suffer the same problem as like those guys in Captain Marvel: act incredibly villainous. do everything to come across as bad, then comes the big twist that ACKSHUALLY they're the good guys all along! Also I thought the compressed house bit was funny. I could imagine this joke being in the RTD or Moffat eras tbh.

Don’t you mean… … “friends” 😉

I loved it, actually one of my favourite episodes ever, and for sure my favourite Jodie episode

The perfect start for the new RTD era, The 12th Doctor regenerating into 13 was just him having a bad trip on some psychic pollen, and everything that happened during the Chibnall era was all just an illusion. a giant talking dog with a Yorkshire accent? Felt like I was watching an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Every season is chronological from start to finish. Think you need a thesaurus.

Gotta disagree this was a massive improvement, this will be a proper send off for Jodie

I also compared this to Dark, that is so strange.

I seen this but the first 30 minutes don't get me interested in it till close to the end and in Episode two was good for and near the end was GOOD! Now I was to wait for episode 3?

It was the worst opening episode of Doctor Who I’ve ever seen, and it is only my damned completionist attitude that will get me to watch the remainder.