The Sandman, Death: The High Cost of Living
by Neil Gaiman & Allan Heinberg; dir. Jamie Childs (Netflix, 2025)
Season 2’s standalone postscript serves as a poignant insight into Death and, through her one day off in a hundred years (spent in company with a suicidal journalist, both experiencing the world and giving him new perspective), the true value of life.
Doctor Who: Demons of the Punjab
by Vinay Patel; dir. Jamie Childs (BBC, 2018)
A beautifully filmed historical episode (technically pseudo-historical but the titular demons are something of a MacGuffin). The bigger context of the partition of British India allows for an impactful small-scale story where the TARDIS crew contribute little but empathy, which is enough.
Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell To Earth
by Chris Chibnall; dir. Jamie Childs (BBC, 2018)
The best debut story since Rose. Jodie Whittaker hits the ground running, and Chibnall strikes a nice balance between SF threat, comfort humour and character introduction. All the soon-to-be regulars show promise (while Sharon D. Clarke is immediately much missed as Grace).