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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 6 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 6 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 8 months, 1 week ago
Electric Screams (Shipwrecking “Horror of Fang Rock”)
Season 6 Episode 4
Just this once, Leela … everybody dies! Horror of Fang Rock may be a kind of bottle episode (well, a tall bottle with a big electric light on top), but no Doctor Who story has a higher percentage of …
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Slave New World (Liberating “Planet of the Ood”)
Season 6 Episode 3
How do the Ood serve Doctor Who? Are they more interesting as harbingers of doom, pawns of the literal devil, or rabid victims of capitalist greed? Planet of the Ood takes the latter approach, and th…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Mazed and Confused (Mythologizing “The Horns of Nimon”)
Season 6 Episode 2
Time waits for Nimon! Well, time waits for someone to appreciate The Horns of Nimon — the unintended finale to one of the greatest seasons of Doctor Who. With its drunk ballet bulls and a villain on …
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Lord & Lady (Burglarizing “Planet of the Dead”)
Season 6 Episode 1
A London bus, a mysterious wormhole, and a desert planet teeming with metal stingrays — Planet of the Dead boasts a hearty list of tasty Doctor Who plot ingredients even before you mix in a flirty al…
Published on 10 months ago