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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 mo…
11 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 v…
11 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 ho…
11 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 arm…
11 months, 4 weeks 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-…
1 year 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 e…
1 year 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), b…
1 year, 1 month 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? P…
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 2 months 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 p…
1 year, 2 months ago