https://piefed.social/u/Skavau posted on Feb 25, 2026 14:13
Yeah Gatwa breathed a lot of life into the show for me after Whitaker’s run.
The overarching plot was eh but the individual episodes were a lot of fun. Which is more than I can say about the previous run.
Yeah, by the end of Capaldi’s run I was losing interest and I was excited for both a new doctor and show runner, but I couldn’t stick with Whitaker and dropped off halfway into the first series.
I did go back last year and give it a shot. Being able to binge it was better because the weaker episodes just scroll past until you get to something better. I think in the end it was fine, but difficult to recommend.
For Gatwa I was excited to tune in every week. I really wish he had gotten a third series.
So it looks like this has a relatively small connection to Killing Eve. Different creative team and just a single character crossover when they were much younger. Seems like it might be a case of repurposing another script and trying to attach “Killing Eve” to it.
The plot also loosely looks similar to the recently premiered show “Ponies”, although perhaps this is leaning a little bit more serious. (Although 70s/80s Cold War is a common storyline.)
Doesn’t mean it can’t be good, but it doesn’t shout quality.