Doctor Who:
The Return Of Doctor Mysterio
My hot take was that it wasn’t my least favorite Christmas special, but I’m having trouble coming up with the one it beats. Maybe “The […]
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Doctor Who:
Another Peek At This Year’s ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special
With a plucky young reporter and… Nardole, The Doctor comes face to face with a Lex Luthor type and a real superhero. We’d been told […]
‘Doctor Who’ Encountering A Superhero At Christmas
On Christmas Day, Doctor Who fans get an extra special present when their hero’s world collides with the comic book one. In “The Return of Doctor […]
BBC Introduces Pearl Mackie As “Bill” – The New Companion On ‘Doctor Who’
Currently starring in the West End in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, Pearl Mackie is about to go from talented actor […]
Sir John Hurt Portrays Other Doctors
At Gallifrey One 27, the guest of honor was Sir John Hurt, known to Whovians as The War Doctor, though that’s the tiniest slice of […]
Review: ‘TARDIS Beat’
To make a parody work at its best, you can’t just have knowledge about the target, you have to have so much that it proves […]
Steven Moffat Stepping Down From ‘Doctor Who’ – In 2017
Though we’ve had rumblings for months, the alleged final plan for Steven Moffat’s tenure ending on Doctor Who is sure to cause agony for fans. According […]
Doctor Who:
“The Husbands of River Song”
This is the first time since “The Five Doctors” back in 1983 that my first viewing of a Doctor Who episode took place in a […]
Doctor Who: “Hell Bent”
Even though “Hell Bent” is as unrepentantly sci-fi and literal as “Heaven Sent” is allegorical and rich with subtext, even though it’s as chaotic and […]
Doctor Who: “Heaven Sent”
The Doctor has lost his best friend. His best friend has forbidden him to take out his anger and grief on anyone else. But he […]
Doctor Who: “Face the Raven”
One way to gauge the sturdiness of a work of fiction might be: if you know the big spoiler, can you still enjoy it? The […]
Maisie Williams Returns To ‘Doctor Who’ This Week
After warning us to “sleep no more,” Doctor Who follows up by admonishing us to “Face the Raven.” While I appreciate the literary allusions, they need […]
Doctor Who: “Sleep No More”
Imagine, if you can, a monster that uses your time asleep to attack you…yes, a bit like Freddy Krueger. Imagine that this monster is so […]
Doctor Who: “The Zygon Inversion”
Imagine you’ve been forced to move to another country, one where you don’t speak the language and the customs aren’t your own. You probably still […]
Doctor Who: “The Zygon Invasion”
And just like that we’re back in a classic mode, in this case the Earth invasion stories that introduced UNIT in 1970 and continued through […]
Doctor Who, “The Woman Who Lived”
For a moment in this season’s opening two-parter I got the ghastly fear that by the end of this year we’d have a definitive, boring […]
Doctor Who: “The Girl Who Died”
Series 9 continues our tour of the classic series in general and the Tom Baker era in specific with a season 16/17 smorgasbord. Those two […]
Doctor Who: “Before the Flood”
It’s all about paradoxes this season so far. In the opening two-parter, we got the Grandfather Paradox: if you go back in time and kill […]
Doctor Who: Under the Lake
If you hear a classic series fan talking about the “base under siege” story, they’re talking about a story like “Under the Lake”. It’s a […]
Doctor Who: The Witch’s Familiar
I said last week that there was only one time travel story to be told about Hitler: do you go back and kill him before […]