Doctor Who: Every episode of season 12, ranked from worst to best

Can You Hear Me?

A bizarrely overstuffed and strange hour, “Can You Hear Me?” is probably the weirdest episode of season 12. With a story that jumps between 14th century Syria and the far future, featuring space werewolves and practically immortal gods, it’s got a little bit of everything. Including an animated interlude.

Part literal nightmare and part meditation on modern-day mental health, it’s an episode that certainly won’t work for everyone. But it does provide us with our clearest look into the interior lives of Thirteen’s companions that we get this season, one which offers plenty of hints for how their journeys on the TARDIS might eventually end. (It certainly sounds as though Ryan’s almost ready to go home, is all I’m saying.)

And while Big Bads Zellin and Rakaya aren’t terribly interesting, they tie back to Doctor Who history in a way the show hasn’t often attempted in recent seasons. (Just google Eternals and Guardians, if you’re curious. It’s a lot to explain here. But it’s weird, and it works.)