Who Sunday: The Snowmen, Steven Moffat

I love this episode. It’s so good even Clara doesn’t annoy me. Yes, she’s Oswin from Asylum of the Daleks, and there’s a reason she keeps coming back from the dead, but it’s a dumb reason so forget about that and just enjoy a nice British Christmas story with murderous snowmen and the Great Intelligence who will steal your brain when you’re a child and then dump you when the Doctor shows up (see also “The Bells of St. John”). Try to concentrate on that marvelous staircase in the sky; that’s lovely. Also Strax. Strax is like gravy at Christmas dinner: there’s never enough.