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The new era of Doctor Who is off to the intergalactic races
For the second outing in this new era of Doctor Who, Chris Chibnall offers an episode that’s part…
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Doctor Who boldly goes into a whole new era
I didn’t know anything about Doctor Who when I started watching Russell T Davies’ modern version of…
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A poignant Doctor Who Christmas special says goodbye 12, hello 13, hello love
We tend to think of the present as mutable and past as inevitable. But, of course, it’s only by wading through the…
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Doctor Who offers a pitch-perfect finale
What makes a great Doctor Who finale? The basic answer is the same as that for any show—bring the stories told over the…
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Doctor Who makes multiple Masters and old-school Cybermen more than a nostalgia tour
Like the opening entries of most of new Doctor Who’s two-parters, “World Enough And Time” has to hold most of the…
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Doctor Who heads to ancient Scotland for a mystical throwback
“The Eaters Of Light” feels like a throwback to a different era of Doctor Who. That isn’t surprising given the…
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Doctor Who puts Victorians on Mars, which isn’t quite as fun as it sounds
There’s a pair of fascinating ideas at the core of “Empress Of Mars.” The first is more philosophical: As the Doctor…
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A frustrating Doctor Who lacks the courage of its convictions
The first bit of tonight’s episode is really good, at least. It’s an irresistible premise: In the wake of Bill’s…
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Tonight’s Doctor Who is nothing special, at least until it uncorks an all-time great ending
For most of its 45-minute running time, “The Pyramid At The End Of The World” is fine. Not much more than that,…
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A great, experimental Doctor Who considers a world where all hope is gone
In each of Peter Capaldi’s three seasons aboard the TARDIS, Steven Moffat has for his Doctor an experimental,…
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Doctor Who’s latest space epic bites off way more than it can chew
“Oxygen” should have been a two-parter.
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Doctor Who wanders into a horror movie, somehow gets out alive
Rarely does Doctor Who embrace another genre as completely as the first 30 minutes of “Knock Knock” does. For the first…
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Doctor Who hasn’t been this fun in ages—or this serious
After a pair of introductory episodes that established a promising new TARDIS team amid only so-so adventures, the…
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The Doctor and Bill are fantastic together, then a Doctor Who episode happens
Every Doctor deserves a monster perfectly engineered to target their greatest weakness. For Peter Capaldi’s…
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Doctor Who returns at long last, and it’s got us a brand new companion
It’s been a minute since we last saw Peter Capaldi properly in action as the Doctor. Sure, we got the merry yuletide…
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Doctor Who takes a jolly detour to superhero goofiness
With a full year having passed between tonight’s special and last year’s “The Husbands Of River Song,” this is the…
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A deeply silly Doctor Who reunion takes an emotional turn
Just in terms of its narrative structure, “The Husbands Of River Song” is one of the strangest hours in television…
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Doctor Who trades epic for personal in a poignant finale
This story was never about Gallifrey. As far as the Doctor is concerned, his home planet is somewhere between a…
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The Doctor is all alone in a perfect episode
Let’s start with the blindingly obvious first: There has never been a Doctor Who episode like “Heaven Sent.” It’s a…
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Doctor Who faces the raven, and heartbreak ensues
This isn’t the end of Clara Oswald. If nothing else, her death here figures to reverberate throughout each of the next…