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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 6 months, 2 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 6 months, 4 weeks 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 7 months, 1 week 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 7 months, 3 weeks ago
A Star Is Born (HOT TAKE: “Joy to the World”)
Season 5 Episode 40
Good God, what is happening in Joy to the World, possibly the most time-wimey Doctor Who Christmas special to date. We’d expect nothing less from Steven Moffat, who stuffs a dinosaur, a bootstrap par…
Published on 8 months ago
A Wrinkle in Flesh Time (Enlightening “Four to Doomsday”)
Season 5 Episode 39
There's bad Doctor Who that makes you ROFL. There's bad Doctor Who that just leaves you baffled. And sometimes, if you're lucky, you find both in one story. Four to Doomsday, Peter Davison's first di…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Nonrapid Transit (Jackknifing “Gridlock”)
Season 5 Episode 38
“Stuck in traffic for ages” may be the most mundane sci-fi concept Doctor Who has ever offered. Yet Gridlock shines through the smog, even though we have to wonder why they don’t have smog-free EVs i…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Get Back (Reversing “The Edge of Destruction”)
Season 5 Episode 37
In a sense, Doctor Who delivered its scariest story ever on its third outing. There’s something truly unsettling about The Edge of Destruction, especially in our unsettled times. The show seems to be…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Axis of Medieval (Besieging “The Time Warrior”)
Season 5 Episode 36
Did New Who start in 2005 … or 1973? The Time Warrior fell from the stars with a surprising number of firsts for a show in its 11th year: not just the first Sontaran, but the debut of Sarah-Jane Smit…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Repeater Capaldi (Confessing “Heaven Sent”)
Season 5 Episode 35
If we didn’t know better, we’d say we’ve been waiting to talk about this Peter Capaldi episode for 7,000 years. Or is it two billion? Time seems to drag when you’re punching a wall made of random Doc…
Published on 10 months ago