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Idol Threat (HOT TAKE: "The Interstellar Song Contest")
Season 6 Episode 14
The Interstellar Song Contest is a full-on sensory overload: galactic glam, massive stakes, and more killer hooks than a Skybox full of Hellions. In this hot take, we break down the Doctor’s most bom…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Rightful Hair (HOT TAKE: "The Story & the Engine")
Season 6 Episode 13
In The Story & the Engine, the Doctor finds himself in a Nigerian barbershop… on a spaceship… on the back of a spider… in the realm of living stories. You with us so far? Good — because the story’s j…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Lies that Blind (HOT TAKE: “Lucky Day”)
Season 6 Episode 12
It's a Lucky Day… or is it? Is this a bold stand for truth in the age of misinformation, or an unsubtle lecture about trusting the deep state? Can conspiracy theorists exist in a world where UNIT is …
Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Fright of Your Life (HOT TAKE: "The Well")
Season 6 Episode 11
Doctor Who has plunged into The Well — and trust us, you’ll want to keep your back covered. Pete and Chris tackle the chills, thrills, and high-stakes mystery of Season 2’s most intense episode yet. …
Published on 4 months ago
Heavy Meta (HOT TAKE: “Lux”)
Season 6 Episode 10
RTD just gave us Alan Cumming as a cartoon god named Mr. Ring-a-Ding, and that’s not even the weirdest part of “Lux.” This episode has 2D-animated monsters, film reel body horror, meta commentary on …
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Day of the Nurse (HOT TAKE: "The Robot Revolution")
Season 6 Episode 9
It's the future, and your star registry gift just triggered a robotic uprising. Welcome to Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution, where RTD goes hard on visuals, soft on substance, and maybe too far on co…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Invade for TV (Discharging “Aliens of London and World War Three”)
Season 6 Episode 8
Say it with us now: it’s not just Slitheen fart jokes. Aliens of London/World War Three is the Ecclestone-Piper powerhouse that firmly established how NuWho would grow beyond the old-school kind of E…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Reich Stuff (Vivisecting “The Sontaran Experiment”)
Season 6 Episode 7
Sontar-what now? An odd little two-parter squished between two titanic Tom Baker classics, The Sontaran Experiment manages to downgrade its clone army villain — with a flimsy mask that makes him look…
Published on 5 months ago
The Companion Falls (Impacting “Earthshock”)
Season 6 Episode 6
Adric’s fate, an unexpected "asteroid," and the triumphant return of the Cybermen—Earthshock is the definitive Doctor Who game-changer. From its big-budget action sequences to its brutal emotional gu…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Breaking Dad (Reliving “Father’s Day”)
Season 6 Episode 5
When Doctor Who returned in 2005, timey-wimey twists like Rose saving her dad in Father’s Day had rarely been seen on screen. But one entire Moffat era later, audiences are more sophisticated. So how…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago