TV · 2005
Are you my mummy?
— Empty Child · Doctor Who
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
During the London Blitz, a boy in a gas mask keeps asking for his mother. In The Empty Child, an ordinary child’s question becomes unsettling through its repetition.
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