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...

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

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...

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...

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

After the thrilling real world cliffhanger of “The Zygon Invasion,” picking up events in Clara’s hazy Zygon dream state was unexpected to ...

The Doctor: “This is a splinter group. The rest of the Zygons — the vast majority — they want to live in peace. You start bombing them, ...

Last week I referred to “ The Girl Who Died ” as the first half of a two-parter. It was pretty obvious even then that, along with “The W...

“The Girl Who Died” was possibly the most anticipated episode of season nine, not as much for the material, but rather for a crucial pie...

“Before the Flood” is the fourth episode of season nine. “ Listen ” was the fourth episode of season eight. Both episodes begin with the D...

The base-under-siege trope has been a Doctor Who chestnut since the Patrick Troughton years. It got a particularly heavy series of work...

Given how rooted in the classic series the first half of this two-parter appeared, the second half feels positively grounded in the new. I...

“The Magician’s Apprentice” casts an immediate spell. Anyone versed in the classic Tom Baker serial “Genesis of the Daleks” was surely mes...