Doctor Who preview: Their episode titles have exclamation points now

The new season of Doctor Who continues as the TARDIS team travels to a planet that’s home to a retailer that kind of looks like an intergalactic Amazon.

One of the strangest things about season 11 of Doctor Who is just how little information we have to go on.

There’s no overarching story to speculate wildly about, and the folks in charge give us very little information between installments. The episode titles aren’t particularly descriptive – this week’s installment is titled “Kerblam!” which could literally mean anything – and the promo trailers are rapidly approaching Mad Men levels of vagueness.

And while former showrunner Steven Moffat liked to give interviews back in the day, new boss Chris Chibnall is fairly tight-lipped about it all. Almost dedicatedly so.

That isn’t to say that it all isn’t fun, in its way. It’s nice to be surprised sometimes, and there’s so much new stuff happening – from new creatures to new planets – that of course it’s harder to talk about them. (After all, for us, they don’t really exist yet.)

After an episode that took Team TARDIS back into the past of Yaz’s family, this installment appears to get right back to a more sci-fi kind of story, complete with mysterious robots and a creepy alien planet.

But what’s “Kerblam!” actually about? No idea.

The official synopsis gives us a little to go on, but not much:

"A mysterious message arrives in a package addressed to the Doctor, leading her, Graham, Yaz and Ryan to investigate the warehouse moon orbiting Kandoka, and the home of the galaxy’s largest retailer, Kerblam."

Even the trailer is ridiculously unhelpful, showing us a frightening robot mailman and an empty warehouse with zero context for either.

Given the news of the week about Amazon’s new HQ, we probably can be forgiven for assuming that this is some kind of morality play about Amazon, given that Kerblam is apparently the galactic version of the online retailer. (Wonder where their HQ2 is?)

Then again, that might not be the case. But when you have so little actual information, you get to make your own fun.

We’ll have to tune in and see what really happens.

Doctor Who season 11 continues Sunday, Nov. 18 at 8 EST on BBC America.