The Curse of Davros

The Curse of Davros by Jonathan Morris

There is literally nothing at all I can say about the Curse of Davros whatsoever. Literally nothing. It's brilliant, mind you, but the only way I could really discuss what makes it that way would be to spoil it, and the Curse of Davros in particular is an audio that desperately relies on not being spoiled and also at the same time it would add little benefit to the review. So therefore, I am punished literally either direction I could choose to go in in any scenario. It's a mean sucker that way, The Curse of Davros is an advertiser's worst nightmare. Of course, you could go ahead and start by advertising it as a Dalek story, but half of all Dalek stories are a dime a dozen in the rubbish bin - you can hardly do anything new with them if your name's not Robert Shearman. And Curse of Davros is almost incredibly copy and paste. But it's also incredibly brilliant, and also one of the better entry points to the Sixth Doctor despite being kind of also a sequel to Crimes of Thomas Brewster (of which I have not heard, but will get to.) All the same, the majority of episode one is an exceedingly good pilot episode. It's slick and gorgeous in getting you where you need to be. That's not to say that the rest of it isn't good. The rest of it is very good. But as a matter of fact, half of that I wouldn't even put on the writing - Which is just some well written action. What The Curse of Davros is is the performances. I can't really give these performances justice other than it's an expert turn for Baker, Molloy and Greenwood. Colin Baker especially - doing a performance here unlike anything he's ever done. And I could spoil it - but there would be little reward. And at the same time, it's hard to discuss otherwise. Goddamn it. Just listen to the Curse of Davros - it's more than worth your time, it's a smooth and really excellent action piece with bombast to spare - and it's rare I ever really love those on audio. 10/10