****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!!**** I really wanted to like this one. So help me, I was genuinely enthused at the prospect of seeing the Sea Devils (one of the coolest looking Doctor Who adversaries) back in action for the first time since the Jon Pertwee and Peter Davison eras (“The Sea Devils” and “Warriors of the Deep”,…
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Doctor Who: “Eve of the Daleks” gets back to basics…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Doctor Who’s New Year’s Day episode, “Eve of the Daleks”, directed by Annetta Laufer and written by current producer/showrunner Chris Chibnall, has aired. While the current run of Doctor Who will be the last under Chris Chibnall before the return of Russell T. Davies in 2023, I’m pleased to write that “Eve of…
Doctor Who: “The Halloween Apocalypse” kicks off the “Flux” event…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Something Old, Someone New. Fresh off the news that former producer/writer/showrunner Russell T. Davies is returning to the “Doctor Who” franchise, current producer/writer/showrunner Chris Chibnall returns for a six-episode event called “The Flux,” which began on Halloween night with Episode 1, titled (appropriately enough) “The Halloween Apocalypse.” This was our first look at…
“Fantastic!” Russell T. Davies returns to “Doctor Who”…
Davies and the Debut of New Who. Very recently, I wrote about my anticipation of Doctor Who’s much maligned (and short-lived) resurrection in 1996 with the “Doctor Who: TV Movie,” starring the talented Paul McGann as the Doctor. While that attempt to bring the Doctor back to the airwaves ultimately wasn’t successful, it did manage…
Doctor Who: “Revolution of the Daleks” reunites the TARDIS fam…
****BIGGER SPOILERS ON THE INSIDE!!**** Picking up after the event’s of last year’s canon-reshaping story “The Timeless Children”, “Revolution of the Daleks” was written by current producer/showrunner Chris Chibnall and directed by Wayne Yip. In solving one minor headscratcher from the old series (the pre-canonical incarnations of the Doctor, briefly glimpsed in 1976’s “The Brain…
Doctor Who, S12.10: “The Timeless Children” need a timeout…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!****** The Season 12 finale of Doctor Who has arrived, and it’s basically a Page One rewrite of all Doctor Who lore, from 1963 on up. Everything you thought you knew of the Time Lords and Gallifrey are no longer what they seem. As a longtime fan of the show, I’m not…
Doctor Who, S12.9: “Ascension of the Cybermen” rises to the occasion…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!!****** Well, just as I was beginning to doubt that Doctor Who could make yet another Cybermen armageddon-finale work, showrunner/writer Chris Chibnall and director Jamie Magnus Stone pull it off, delivering a penultimate 12th season finale that offers a solid new story, as well as the promise of wrapping up certain mysteries left for…
Doctor Who, 12.8: “The Haunting of Villa Diotati” scares up an old enemy…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD***** This week, the Doctor and her TARDIS-traveling companions arrive at Lake Geneva, Switzerland on a stormy night in June of 1816; the very night that saw the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s “Frankenstein” story…and their time travel tour, as usual, hits a few snags. Written by Maxine Alderton and directed by Emma…
Doctor Who, S12.7: “Can You Hear Me?” isn’t giving us the finger(s)…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Stylishly directed by Emma Sullivan, Doctor Who 12.7, “Can You Hear Me?” was written by current showrunner Chris Chibnall and Charlene James, and is a solid, if not exceptional, outing in what has largely been a hit-and-miss era from Chibnall. “Can You Hear Me?” isn’t among the best of the series, but…
Doctor Who, S12.6: “Praxeus” is a mashup with a message…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** The latest episode of Doctor Who, “Praxeus”, is written by current series’ showrunner Chris Chibnall & Pete McTighe, and was directed by Jamie Magnus Stone. Once again, as we’ve seen many times in the Chibnall-era, global locations are used to impart some international scope to the episode, with various locations passing for…
Doctor Who, S12.5: “Fugitive of the Judoon” is quite a boon…
****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!**** I’ve said in previous posts that I’ve had many issues with the Chris Chibnall-era of Doctor Who; mainly that it’s been characterized by uneven writing and an overall feeling of creative entropy. Tonight, with “Fugitive of the Judoon”, scripted by Chibnall, Vinay Patel (“Demons of the Punjab”) and directed by Nida Manzoor…
Doctor Who S12.4: “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror” adds a much-needed jolt of electricity…
After the uneven Chris Chibnall era of Doctor Who hit a creative brick wall last week with the jaw-droppingly awful “Orphan 55”, it just as quickly rebounded this past weekend with arguably the best historical episode of the series to date. Scripted by Nina Metivier, “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror” is, in some ways, a…