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The Women Who Lived was triumphant as a character piece with Maisie Williams finally being given plenty of material to shine in. Her back story was brilliant and entirely tragic with the death of at least three of her children. The episode was mianly a character piece which tackled brilliantly with the question of morality.

The back story with the lion breather was a bit underdeveloped but at least it got a cool design which just adds to the awesome DW designs over the past few seasons (Teller, Foretold even the Mire) being other examples. The twists often felt far too quick like the betrayal twist.

This episode definitely made the Doctor think about morality and what he leaves behind with the ending being brilliant and the foreboding suggesting that Clara may die at the end of the season unless that is a bluff and there might just be a massive twist where Clara survives (heres hoping!).

Overall the episode was a clear improvement over The Girl Who Died and continued the brilliant run of episodes with season 9 somehow being even better than season 8. There have been no bad episodes so far and this deep, character piece story (Sam Swift being brilliant and the gallow scene was hilarious) being brilliant overall.