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“Revolution of the Daleks” does, well, exactly what it says on the TARDIS-shaped tin. It’s a story of revolution, giving us a brand new kind of Dalek Earth-grown thanks to a disconcerting combination of the fallout of keeping last year’s New Year special hush-hush and the return of Chris Noth’s seedy Trumpian analogue Jack Robertson from 2018 s “Arachnids in the UK.” It’s also a Dalek story through and through, and just as writer-showrunner Chris Chibnall proved in “Resolution,” he knows how to write a solid, by-the-book one of those: there’s no real interrogation of who the Daleks are and their relationship to the Doctor here; that’s by and large out of the way now that Jodie Whittaker has already learned how to stare down a sinister eyestalk. They’re here, they’re angry space bigots, and they’re gonna hover around and shoot death beams and yell “EX-TER-MIN-