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Doctor Who’s season finale is a bit of a letdown
If there’s an action that defines both the Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat eras of Doctor Who, it’s running. Both…
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A season’s best Doctor Who is wonderfully weird and beautifully poignant
As I mentioned in my review of “Demons Of The Punjab,” Doctor Who has made me cry about a lot of…
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Alan Cumming hunts witches as Doctor Who criticizes religious hypocrisy
A group of Republican politicians in Ohio recently made headlines for sponsoring a bill that would…
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Doctor Who’s rollicking critique of Amazon delivers
“Kerblam!” earns its titular exclamation point not just because it’s fun to say, but because it’s…
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Doctor Who delivers a moving history lesson about the Partition of India
“Rosa,” the first historical story of the season, made me cry about the heroism of a real-life…
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A creepy-cute monster spices up Doctor Who’s latest base-under-siege story
“The Tsuranga Conundrum” is a relatively solid, somewhat strange episode of Doctor Who that serves…
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Mr. Big channels Donald Trump as Doctor Who battles giant spiders in Sheffield
Leave it to Doctor Who to offer an episode that starts with me cowering in fear over the image of a…
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A powerful Doctor Who ensures Rosa Parks is the hero of her own story
There’s a moment in The Lord Of The Rings where Frodo tells Gandalf he wishes he didn’t have to…
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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…