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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“Last Christmas” is the tenth Doctor Who Christmas special in as many Christmases — a decade of Russell T. Davies’s and Steven Moffat’s a...

The movie portion of this review was previously published at Bullz-Eye .  Stills are not screengrabs from the Criterion Blu-ray. If yo...

There’s always time and space to write a little bit more about Ben Watt and/or Tracey Thorn, but today the focus must be on Ben, for ...