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…