This week, Doctor Who gave us a sequel to the deeply unsettling 2008 episode “Midnight,” which is a fan-favorite for a reason. “The Well” tries to recapture that magic, and while it didn’t quite haunt me in the same way that “Midnight” did,

Sometimes, in fiction, you don’t need to say a Very Important Thing in a Very Important Way to make a good point, just ask how a thing would work if it played out in the world. This week’s episode of Doctor Who, “The Well,” does exactly that, and brilliantly.

If there is one episode of Doctor Who I never wanted to see a sequel to, it's Midnight. That story about an unseeable, unknowable monster that completely and thoroughly beat the Doctor and terrified them more than anything they'd ever known – a story about how unrestrained,