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…
