Okay, so Dark Water is one of the best individual episodes in all of Doctor Who. I feel like the Capaldi era of the series has given Steven Moffat his second wind, allowing him to come up with genuinely new and fresh ideas that wholeheartedly work for the series. Take, for instance, his handling of the afterlife. You get the real sense that he sat down and thought about what the afterlife actually would be like, and so he fills it with a sort of mundaneness when we get to visit it (note as well that in the scenes on Earth, the afterlife contrastingly is dealt with as some sort of weird concept that could easily have been in a story either set in the future or on another planet - it's also why the sudden reveal that it's present day Earth works so well, despite the massive amount of publicity that this story would be taking place on present day Earth it still comes as an absolute shock that it is). But then, as well, Moffat finds the other hook to it, and makes the idea of an afterlife scary again by proposing that you still remain 'conscious' when you're dead, leading to the horrific off-screen implications of cremation. It's all terrible stuff to think about, but the episode continually draws you back to thinking about it, making it a more cerebral lead-in to the finale than what we might have expected.
And then, just to top everything off, the character formerly known as the Master (now Missy) and the Doctor finally get to relieve their sexual tension. I'm honestly not going to go into any further detail about that scene, other than the fact that it's a scene that gets better and better every single time that you watch it.
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