The episode was watched by a total of 6.92 million viewers. Overnight viewing figures were estimated at 5.03 million viewers. Maebh's last name is Arden, a reference to the forest in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It. For example, Maebh in a red coat getting chased by wolves (" Little Red Riding Hood"). This episode contains many elements of fairy tales, as explained in Doctor Who Extra. (The forests appear overnight and a tiger appears in the episode). The title is from the second line of William Blake's The Tyger: Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night.
The Doctor responds to Clara's suggestion that he save himself and abandon the Earth with her words to him in " Kill the Moon": " This is my world, too. Outside her house, Maebh reunites with Annabel. As the trees dissipate, the Doctor explains that humanity will forget about the sudden appearance of the trees, as they have before, but the memory will linger as fairy tales. The Doctor and Clara watch the solar flare harmlessly strike Earth from space. Danny tells Clara he wants to know the truth about her travels with the Doctor, and asks her to think about it first. The Doctor hacks into the global cellular network and Maebh reads off a message prepared by the other students to tell everyone on Earth to leave the trees alone, and to request Annabel to come home. The Doctor believes that the trees shielded Earth from the solar flare as they had for those impacts. Later admitting he was wrong, the Doctor tells Clara, Danny, and the students the creatures were referring to the Tunguska Event and the Curuçá impact, events that should have been catastrophic for life on Earth. The students prefer to stay and find their parents, Danny insists on staying with the students, and Clara refuses to become the last of her kind. The Doctor believes Earth is doomed from the solar flare, and offers to take Clara, Danny, and the students away in the TARDIS. They speak through Maebh, claiming responsibility for growing the forest, as they had done before in the north and in the south. He temporarily creates a gravity field around Maebh, revealing many bug-like creatures. As Maebh's medication wears off, the Doctor examines her movements and thinks she is communicating with something. The Doctor explains to Clara that he believes a giant solar flare will strike Earth today. Maebh goes missing Clara explains that since the disappearance of her sister Annabel, Maebh hears voices in her head, and takes medication to calm these effects. Among the notebooks is Maebh's, each page having a picture of an angry sun striking down trees. He realises Clara lied about forgoing future travels with the Doctor. In the TARDIS, Danny finds a pile of student notebooks that Clara had left behind. Clara, Danny, and the other students regroup in Trafalgar Square to recover Maebh. One of the students, Maebh, hears a thought from Clara to find the Twelfth Doctor. Clara, Danny, and several Coal Hill students on an overnight school trip wake up to find Earth has been covered by large forests.
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