Day 22: The Velvet Web

This episode concerns a, to be pretty honest, terrifying society. The concept is that they lure in people with promises of everything they could ever want or desire, and achieve these aims through mental control over their minds, making them see what they want to see, instead of what actually is. This leads to a quite funny moment as the Doctor picks up a mug, and declares it to be a wonderful piece of scientific equipment. But the evil plan behind this is to use all of this as a lure, so they can alter their brains further such that their memories and world view are distorted so they are forced into a life of slavery for their masters, brains in jars. After the last episode glossed over the psychological ramifications of the society, here it's quite nice to see that the show is willing to delve deep into uncomfortable psychological horror, and I hope that this is a trend that continues as we delve deeper in this, to be pretty honest, awful society.