The episode has a great variety of jump scares and the very concept of sleep dust consuming your body without you knowing is terrifying. I also found this episode the scariest of the series. The supporting characters were admittedly the weakest part of the story, as most didn’t have much depth in terms or personality apart from Rasmussen (played by Reece Shearsmith), who was very entertaining and quite creepy at times. Although this episode added little new to the pair’s friendship, it did show them together, just having a bit more ‘fun’ on one of their travels, as promised. Series 9 was hyped up to be the ‘glory years of the Doctor and Clara’ and to be honest, the only episodes where I found this to be true were Under the Lake, Sleep No More and Face the Raven. Granted the monster design isn’t the best (excluding their mouths) but apart from that, they were really cool and interesting. The Sandmen being created from sleep dust in your eye was very creepy and just like Moffat, Gatiss took a mundane thing and made it scary. The very idea of a machine that allows you have to all the sleep you need in under five minutes was a very real idea and seems like something that could be invented one day in the future. Sleep No More has a very interesting concept and monster behind it. I think it was brave of Gatiss to try this and how he also didn’t simply resort to a normal base under siege template with nothing new going for it. Personally, I think found footage is a broken genre but with this episode, Mark Gatiss makes it work for Doctor Who and explains everything in the twist ending (I’ll get onto that later). Sleep No More (like Heaven Sent) is very experimental in which it takes a ‘found-footage’ approach. I suspect many people who didn’t understand it on initial viewing simply dismissed it as terrible and moved on never to watch again, which I think is extremely unfair. Granted, some episodes might be a bit confusing and hard to follow on your first watch, but does that make it a bad episode? Once it’s been watched a few times, it does make sense because, now you know what’s coming, and you start to piece it all together. The most dominant one being the fact that it was considered ‘too confusing’ and ‘did not make any sense’. In my opinion, it is a great episode and here’s why.įirst of all, let’s address the most common criticism for the episode. Now, while I certainly don’t consider Sleep No More to be the best episode of Series 9, I seriously don’t think it deserves to be considered anywhere near the worst. While DWTV readers mostly agree that Series 9 was full of gems such as Heaven Sent, The Zygon Inversion, and Face the Raven (just to name a few), one episode in particular seems to have received the most negative reception from fans, and that episode is of course Mark Gatiss’ Sleep No More. Guest contributor Richard Guga believes Mark Gatiss’ Series 9 episode deserves another look. Share on X (Twitter) Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on WhatsApp Share on E-mail
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