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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

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“Memories. You’re talking about memories.” — Rick Deckard, Blade Runner It almost seems like a no-brainer that Steven Moffat should craft ...
Monday, July 17, 2017

A Female ‘Doctor Who’ Is Exactly What the Franchise Needed

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“I want to tell the fans not to be scared by my gender. Because this is a really exciting time, and Doctor Who represents everything that’...
Sunday, July 02, 2017

Doctor Who: The Doctor Falls

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As I’ve written in past seasons , Steven Moffat two-parters tend to be composed of two very different types of episodes. While “The Doctor...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Doctor Who: World Enough and Time

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“World Enough and Time” aims to grab your attention from its opening, pre-credits moments. The Doctor stumbles from the TARDIS into a froz...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light

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Often in my recaps, I rely on the history of the writer while forming my thoughts and opinions of an episode. Doctor Who is very much a w...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Doctor Who: Empress of Mars

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Back in season seven, Mark Gatiss reintroduced classic Doctor Who villains the Ice Warriors in “ Cold War ,” an episode I was gaga over. ...
Sunday, June 04, 2017

Doctor Who: The Lie of the Land

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The opening montage of “The Lie of the Land,” presented as an alternate history lesson narrated by the Doctor, is disturbingly effective. ...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Doctor Who: The Pyramid at the End of the World

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As he did last season with a tension-packed Zygon two-parter , writer Peter Harness (with Steven Moffat taking a co-writing credit) again...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Doctor Who: Extremis

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As most Doctor Who fans know, we’re rapidly approaching the end of Steven Moffat’s era. There’s no question his showrunning tenure has be...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Doctor Who: Oxygen

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The Doctor: “Space … the final frontier. Final because it wants to kill us. Sometimes we forget that, start taking it all for granted — th...
Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Doctor Who: Knock Knock

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In this week’s episode of Doctor Who , Bill and her college peeps — Harry (Colin Ryan), Paul (Ben Presley, Galavant ), Felicity (Alice Hew...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Doctor Who: Thin Ice

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Writer Sarah Dollard’s first contribution to Doctor Who was last season’s “ Face the Raven ,” an episode I was lukewarm on, though that h...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Doctor Who: Smile

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Going into “Smile,” I was leery about two things: Emojibots and Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s writing credit. The former because, well, I’m a wri...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Doctor Who: The Pilot

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Two Christmas specials aside, it’s been a seemingly interminably long wait for new Doctor Who . A guy I know recently asked, “Is that show...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio

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It’s been exactly one year since we last had any new Doctor Who . That’s the longest period of time the series has been off the air with n...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

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The first time I watched Doctor Who 's holiday offering, it didn't go swimmingly. It was late and I was tired and cranky, and prob...
Sunday, December 06, 2015

Doctor Who: Hell Bent

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One aspect of Steven Moffat’s writing that doesn’t get nearly enough praise is its unpredictability. In any given season, people develop...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Doctor Who: Heaven Sent

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When you’ve been plotting and writing Doctor Who for as long as Steven Moffat has, you inevitably must stumble across an idea that’s so m...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Doctor Who: Face the Raven

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There’s no need to begin with talk of the first two acts here, when the last 10 minutes of “Face the Raven” are what most folks are curren...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Doctor Who: Sleep No More

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Gagan Rassmussen: “You must not watch this! I’m warning you. You can never unsee it.” Rassmussen could easily have been speaking about “Sl...
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