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DOCTOR WHO S07E14 "The Name of the Doctor"
A review of Doctor Who 7×14, "The Name of the Doctor," written by Steven Moffat. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S07E12 "The Crimson Horror"
A review of DOCTOR WHO 7×12, "The Crimson Horror," written by Mark Gatiss. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S07E10 "Hide"
A review of DOCTOR WHO 7×10, "Hide," written by Neil Cross, directed by Jamie Payne. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S07E09 "Cold War"
A review of DOCTOR WHO 7×09, "Cold War," by Mark Gatiss. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S07E07 "The Bells of Saint John"
We return to our ongoing coverage of DOCTOR WHO with a review of S07E07, "The Bells of Saint John," written by Steven Moffat and directed by Colm McCarthy. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S07E01 "Asylum of the Daleks"
Welcome back to our continuing coverage of Doctor Who. I'll be reviewing every episode of Series 7, the first five of which will air Saturday evenings at 9/8c throughout September on BBC America. (My goal is to post each review … Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO – 2011 Christmas Special "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe"
It was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, with a touch of A Wrinkle in Time, and just a hint of Aliens at the end. It was charming, and funny, and a wonderful way for families to spend an hour in front of the television on Christmas Night. It just wasn't very Doctor Who. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E13 "The Wedding of River Song"
Sometimes, the most surprising place we can find ourselves is exactly where we expected to be. "The Wedding of River Song," the grand finale of the 2011 season of Doctor Who, is long on spectacle, but short on revelation. By its conclusion, however, we are well-positioned to move forward towards something very different indeed. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E12 "Closing Time"
"Closing Time," written by Gareth Roberts as a sequel to his 2010 story "The Lodger," gives us a welcome breather between the emotional sturm und drang of the previous two entries and next week's grand finale. More than that, however, the episode provides a turning point for the season: instead of piling still more guilt on the Doctor, Moffat and Co. begin to shake off the cumulative darkness of the previous few episodes, and start moving us back towards a more joyous, edifying vision of the Doctor we know and love. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E11 "The God Complex"
This is the Doctor's fear: the people he likes that he cannot save; the people he loves but can't protect; the confrontation with his own limitations; the reminder that he is better off alone. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E10 "The Girl Who Waited"
Make no mistake, "The Girl Who Waited" is essential Doctor Who, and its themes echo and ripple throughout the past and future of this entire franchise in dark and troubling ways. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E09 "Night Terrors"
We might recognize "Night Terrors" as something of a low-budget filler episode, but I have a feeling that the young children who watched it on Saturday night from behind their sofas may remember it as an absolute classic: an episode that scared them, and comforted them, and told them exactly what they needed to hear. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E08 "Let's Kill Hitler"
No one is more excited than I am to be returning to Doctor Who after a hiatus of nearly three months, and I think we can all be forgiven if the occasion feels like a major event. However, I do think it is helpful to remember that "Let's Kill Hitler" is not the premiere of a new season: this is, in fact, the eighth episode of Series 6, occupying the same position in the overall story that "The Hungry Earth" occupied in Series 5. We just had a bit of an intermission. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E07 "A Good Man Goes to War"
Ladies, gentlemen, and others: when you get a moment to catch your breath—when you come down from some seriously understandable geeking out, and recover from the adrenaline rush of having watched what felt like a full-length epic movie concentrated into 50 minutes of near perfection—take a moment to consider that what we have just experienced is not only one of the best episodes of Doctor Who ever, but also one of the most important. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E06 "The Almost People"
Since Episode Two I had been bracing myself for the discovery that this whole season was either an alternate reality or a dream, either of which I would have hated. But this is so much better: a huge twist that somehow doesn't invalidate what has come before. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E05 "The Rebel Flesh"
"The Rebel Flesh" certainly looks like a classic, stand-alone Doctor Who story (right down to the cliffhangers at 22 and 44 minutes), but we'll see how things unfold. I'll reserve analysis for next week, but there are definitely clues here that this story may be much more important than it appears—in both theme and plot—to the season as a whole. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E04 "The Doctor's Wife"
Even before the Doctor or any of the dozens of companions who would travel within her, before we even knew what it was or what it meant, we saw this mysterious blue box that promised to be the gateway to all the stories to come. And last night, after more than 47 years, in yet another junkyard just beyond our universe, we finally met her. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E03 "The Curse of the Black Spot"
Honestly, I don't have a lot of energy to spend on this thing: "The Curse of the Black Spot" (written by Steve Thompson) isn't even going to be fun to crap all over. It's not horrible, it's just not much of anything at all. It's a filler episode, a budget-controlling episode, a go-do-this-while-we're-over-here-working-on-the-ones-that-matter episode. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO S06E01–2 "The Impossible Astronaut" & "Day of the Moon"
Last year's Doctor Who season opener, "The Eleventh Hour," was—by coincidence and design—a good jumping-on point for the series. With this year's season opener, on the other hand, Moffat seems to have different goals entirely, and "safe" is nowhere on the agenda. Continue reading
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DOCTOR WHO An Introduction
I doubt anyone involved in the creation of Doctor Who would have predicted that the show would be thriving well into the new millennium, but—whether by accident or intention—there's no denying that they built this show to last. Continue reading
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