A-Season 10A poignant Doctor Who Christmas special says goodbye 12, hello 13, hello loveCaroline Siede12/26/17 1:05amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWe tend to think of the present as mutable and past as inevitable. But, of course, it’s only by wading through the…
ASeason 10Doctor Who offers a pitch-perfect finaleAlasdair Wilkins7/01/17 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhat makes a great Doctor Who finale? The basic answer is the same as that for any show—bring the stories told over the…
A-Season 10Doctor Who makes multiple Masters and old-school Cybermen more than a nostalgia tourAlasdair Wilkins6/24/17 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLike the opening entries of most of new Doctor Who’s two-parters, “World Enough And Time” has to hold most of the…
B+Season 10Doctor Who heads to ancient Scotland for a mystical throwbackAlasdair Wilkins6/17/17 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“The Eaters Of Light” feels like a throwback to a different era of Doctor Who. That isn’t surprising given the…
B-Season 10Doctor Who puts Victorians on Mars, which isn’t quite as fun as it soundsAlasdair Wilkins6/10/17 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere’s a pair of fascinating ideas at the core of “Empress Of Mars.” The first is more philosophical: As the Doctor…
B-Season 10A frustrating Doctor Who lacks the courage of its convictionsAlasdair Wilkins6/03/17 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe first bit of tonight’s episode is really good, at least. It’s an irresistible premise: In the wake of Bill’s…
BSeason 10Tonight’s Doctor Who is nothing special, at least until it uncorks an all-time great endingAlasdair Wilkins5/27/17 9:05pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor most of its 45-minute running time, “The Pyramid At The End Of The World” is fine. Not much more than that,…
ASeason 10A great, experimental Doctor Who considers a world where all hope is goneAlasdair Wilkins5/20/17 9:05pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn each of Peter Capaldi’s three seasons aboard the TARDIS, Steven Moffat has for his Doctor an experimental,…
B+Season 10Doctor Who’s latest space epic bites off way more than it can chewAlasdair Wilkins5/13/17 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Oxygen” should have been a two-parter.
B+Season 10Doctor Who wanders into a horror movie, somehow gets out aliveAlasdair Wilkins5/06/17 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkRarely does Doctor Who embrace another genre as completely as the first 30 minutes of “Knock Knock” does. For the first…
ASeason 10Doctor Who hasn’t been this fun in ages—or this seriousAlasdair Wilkins4/29/17 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAfter a pair of introductory episodes that established a promising new TARDIS team amid only so-so adventures, the…
B+Season 10The Doctor and Bill are fantastic together, then a Doctor Who episode happensAlasdair Wilkins4/22/17 9:05pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkEvery Doctor deserves a monster perfectly engineered to target their greatest weakness. For Peter Capaldi’s…
BSeason 10Doctor Who returns at long last, and it’s got us a brand new companionAlasdair Wilkins4/15/17 9:10pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s been a minute since we last saw Peter Capaldi properly in action as the Doctor. Sure, we got the merry yuletide…
B-Season 9Doctor Who takes a jolly detour to superhero goofinessAlasdair Wilkins12/25/16 9:50pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWith a full year having passed between tonight’s special and last year’s “The Husbands Of River Song,” this is the…
BSeason 9A deeply silly Doctor Who reunion takes an emotional turnAlasdair Wilkins12/25/15 9:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkJust in terms of its narrative structure, “The Husbands Of River Song” is one of the strangest hours in television…
A-Season 9Doctor Who trades epic for personal in a poignant finaleAlasdair Wilkins12/05/15 9:20pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThis story was never about Gallifrey. As far as the Doctor is concerned, his home planet is somewhere between a…
ASeason 9The Doctor is all alone in a perfect episodeAlasdair Wilkins11/28/15 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLet’s start with the blindingly obvious first: There has never been a Doctor Who episode like “Heaven Sent.” It’s a…
ASeason 9Doctor Who faces the raven, and heartbreak ensuesAlasdair Wilkins11/21/15 11:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThis isn’t the end of Clara Oswald. If nothing else, her death here figures to reverberate throughout each of the next…
BSeason 9Doctor Who uses found footage to scare the sleep out of youAlasdair Wilkins11/14/15 10:50pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkBecause Doctor Who constantly renews itself, with a new Doctor or companion coming on board the TARDIS nearly every…
ASeason 9Doctor Who makes its closing argument against warAlasdair Wilkins11/07/15 9:45pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe dirty little secret of Doctor Who is that it’s a show fascinated by the morality of war that has pretty much never…
