DOCTOR WHO – ‘The Husbands of River Song’
byWhen a man pops his head out of a police box door and asks a duffle-coated Matt Lucas for an opinion on the set of…
DOCTOR WHO S9
DOCTOR WHO, 9.12 – ‘Hell Bent’
byIf 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 back on Gallifrey,…
DOCTOR WHO, 9.11 – ‘Heaven Sent’
by“As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. It moves slowly…
DOCTOR WHO, 9.10 – ‘Face the Raven’
byEvery song must end. Clara Oswald’s (Jenna Coleman) comes to an end so matter-of-factly when Rigsy (Joivan Wade), last encountered in “Flatline“, rings her in…
DOCTOR WHO, 9.9 – ‘Sleep No More’
byI find enthusiastic claims made by the creators of any film or television episode that it’s going to be scary rarely ring true, and my…
DOCTOR WHO, 9.8 – ‘The Zygon Inversion’
byAs many have commented, the opening scenes of this week’s Doctor Who uncomfortably mirror the suspected terrorist bombing of Russian passenger Metrojet 9268, which crashed in the…
DOCTOR WHO, 9.7 – ‘The Zygon Invasion’
byUNIT, eh? What are they like? Considering they’re one of Doctor Who’s last defences against all manner of alien incursions, they always seem to miss…
DOCTOR WHO, 9.6 – ‘The Woman Who Lived’
byImmortality. It’s a bugger, isn’t it? Doctor Who, in both its classic and current incarnations, keeps returning to that age old philosophical debate about whether…
DOCTOR WHO, 9.5 – ‘The Girl Who Died’
byMaisie 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 nearly everything you…
DOCTOR WHO, 9.4 – ‘Before the Flood’
byThe TARDIS feeling grumpy about temporal anomalies, and the tolling of the Cloister Bell, do not prepare you for the mind-scrambling deconstruction of the ‘bootstrap…
DOCTOR WHO, 9.3 – ‘Under the Lake’
byThe strongest opening for a series of Doctor Who in a while continues with Toby Whithouse’s “Under the Lake”. Series 9 may not be benefiting…
DOCTOR WHO, 9.2 – ‘The Witch’s Familiar’
byPerhaps it was inevitable that Missy (Michelle Gomez) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) would escape the ‘maximum extermination cliffhanger’ by using those vortex manipulators so kindly…