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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 7 months, 3 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 7 months, 4 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 8 months 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 8 months, 1 week 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 8 months, 2 weeks 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 8 months, 3 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 9 months 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 9 months, 1 week 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 9 months, 3 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 10 months ago