Circus Season: From Out of the Rain (Torchwood)
Continuing a series of posts about TV episodes related to the circus. In my last post, about the circus which comes to Royston Vasey in The League of Gentlemen, we met the feared side of the circus. You don't want to be taken by all those freaks. Of course, in that instance the town was too freaky even for Papa Lazarou to face. Here, however a circus invades reality in, in many ways, a much more scary way. Side show characters from an old film of a circus are managing to escape from the celluloid and trying to take people's souls, so that they can continue performing as they did in the past. As regular readers know I usually read round on the internet before writing a blog post, because this blog has from the start been animated by the desire to avoid the endless description and repetition on the internet, and try to say something different. I was surprised, when I started reading about this show, to find that despite being one of my favourite Torchwood episodes, it really isn...