While preparing to depart on another adventure, the Doctor, Yaz, Ryan, and Graham are kidnapped by a bunch of suits and taken to MI6 headquarters, where - surprise! - Stephen Fry is the head honcho and needs their help.
It’s a shame, though, because “Spyfall” is utterly conventional, nondescript at best and dull at worst, in the way it picks up where we last left off. The second Doctor Who holiday special to not run on Christmas Day (after 2019’s “Resolution”), “Spyfall” dispenses with the show’s usual holiday themes for a straightforward dive into the new season.
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Between its sky full of fish and its magical singing love interests, “A Christmas Carol” is marked by nonsensical diversions in a story that doesn’t stand on its own. Why does the Doctor decide that his best plan of action is to literally change a man’s personality? Isn’t it bad to manipulate someone’s life? Didn’t we already learn how crossing one’s own timeline can be disastrous? For a show about a time-traveling alien and his human companions skipping through the universe and saving the day, we also get little of our protagonists, and the characters who are pushed into the spotlight - Kazran Sardick and his icebox sweetheart Abigail - aren’t nearly interesting enough to act as worthy substitutes.
It’s a transparent attempt to adopt the plot of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol - indeed, even Matt Smith’s Doctor says it - but the episode’s logic and execution are both off-target. Following the trash fire that was the Pandorica arc, “A Christmas Carol” tells the story of a doomed spaceship and the rich miser who could save the day but refuses to do any such thing.
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