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'Doctor Who' Season 11, Episode 3 Recap: Rosa

Ani Bundel

22 Oct 2018 — 5 min read

Doctor Who attempts to tell the story of Rosa Parks as our travelers arrive in the American South in the 1950s.

Graham: You haven't got Elvis' phone number!
Doctor: Don't ever tell anyone I lent him my mobile.

The traditional pattern for any Doctor Who season with new Doctors and/or companions is a time travel episode. First, everyone meets cute, then the humans get a taste of outer space, then they get a taste of period costume. Usually, the Doctor goes back in time centuries, someplace euro or UK centric. Not this year. This year's period lands the Doctor and her followers in one of the most segregated societies of the last 100 years, as they arrive smack in the middle of Montgomery, AL in 1955, and within a few minutes, run straight into a lovely older lady who goes by Mrs. Parks. Mrs. Rosa Parks.

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