Still haven’t gotten around to checking out Doctor Who , have you? Don’t let the Season Five label dissuade you: This is a great place to ge...

From the very first scene, “The Pandorica Opens” is an ominous piece of work. France, 1890. Vincent van Gogh (Tony Curran) writhes in mental...

Each season of the new Doctor Who has one or two “experimental” episodes – stories that just don’t feel like anything that’s come before. ...

If somebody asked me to make a short list of my favorite writers and/or directors working today, Richard Curtis isn’t the first person who’...

Last week I posted a quick update saying that I would wait until this week to write about both of these episodes, but that “The Hungry Earth...

Here we are, more or less mid-season, and as someone who’s recapping this block of episodes week in and out, as well as someone who’s been d...

I was sold on “The Vampires of Venice” (not “Vampires in Venice,” which is what I mistakenly called it at the close of last week’s recap) by...

Now I’d had a little bit to drink – OK, a lot to drink – before I watched “Flesh and Stone,” and when it was over I swore it was the best ep...

After being so thoroughly underwhelmed for the past two weeks, “The Time of Angels” almost leaves me speechless. I wish I could just write, ...

“Daleks. I sometimes think those mutated misfits will terrorize the universe for the rest of time.” Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor, following ...

After gushing over the season premiere last week, it pains me to find “The Beast Below” is lacking. One element of the episode I found to b...

It feels like it’s been forever since Steven Moffat was announced as the new showrunner and Matt Smith as the new Doctor. It hasn’t been, o...