DOCTOR WHO – ‘The Husbands of River Song’
[usr 3.0] When a man pops his head out of a police box door and asks a duffle-coated Matt Lucas for an opinion on...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.12 – ‘Hell Bent’
[usr 3.0] If there’s one thing that Steven Moffat’s “Hell Bent” achieves, it’s certainly not clarity. Picking up from The Doctor’s (Peter Capaldi) arrival...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.11 – ‘Heaven Sent’
[usr 4.5] “As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you....
DOCTOR WHO, 9.10 – ‘Face the Raven’
[usr 3.5] Every song must end. Clara Oswald’s (Jenna Coleman) comes to an end so matter-of-factly when Rigsy (Joivan Wade), last encountered in “Flatline“,...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.9 – ‘Sleep No More’
[usr 3.0] I find enthusiastic claims made by the creators of any film or television episode that it’s going to be scary rarely ring...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.8 – ‘The Zygon Inversion’
[usr 4.0] As many have commented, the opening scenes of this week’s Doctor Who uncomfortably mirror the suspected terrorist bombing of Russian passenger Metrojet 9268, which...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.7 – ‘The Zygon Invasion’
[usr 4.0] UNIT, eh? What are they like? Considering they’re one of Doctor Who’s last defences against all manner of alien incursions, they always...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.6 – ‘The Woman Who Lived’
[usr 3.0] Immortality. It’s a bugger, isn’t it? Doctor Who, in both its classic and current incarnations, keeps returning to that age old philosophical...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.5 – ‘The Girl Who Died’
[usr 3.0] Maisie Williams isn’t playing Susan, Romana, The Rani, Jenny, or any other returning female time-traveller. There, that’s my review written. Really, that’s...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.4 – ‘Before the Flood’
[usr 3.0] The TARDIS feeling grumpy about temporal anomalies, and the tolling of the Cloister Bell, do not prepare you for the mind-scrambling deconstruction...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.3 – ‘Under the Lake’
[usr 3.5] The strongest opening for a series of Doctor Who in a while continues with Toby Whithouse’s “Under the Lake”. Series 9 may...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.2 – ‘The Witch’s Familiar’
[usr 4.0] Perhaps it was inevitable that Missy (Michelle Gomez) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) would escape the ‘maximum extermination cliffhanger’ by using those vortex...