DOCTOR WHO, 10.7 – ‘The Pyramid at the End of the World’
[usr 3.5] Imagine, you’re a skilled researcher working in a top secret lab completing biochemical trials on crops, and you’ve been out on the...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.6 – ‘Extremis’
[usr 4.5] Steven Moffat returns to Doctor Who writing duties this week with “Extremis”, the first chapter of a three-part story. We’re also back...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.5 – ‘Oxygen’
[usr 4.5] If you’ve been paying attention over the last five episodes of Doctor Who you’ll have noticed certain themes cropping up. There have...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.4 – ‘Knock Knock’
[usr 4.0] “Well, you don’t have to go to outer space to find monsters,” claims Nardole (Matt Lucas) at the conclusion of Mike Bartlett’s...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.3 – ‘Thin Ice’
[usr 4.0] I was half expecting Stevie Wonder to show up in “Thin Ice”, writer Sarah Dollard’s contribution to this year’s series of Doctor...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.2 – ‘Smile’
[usr 3.5] If the theme of robots becoming sentient seems familiar in “Smile”, the second episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who, then...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.1 – ‘The Pilot’
[usr 4.0] There’s a marvellous composition right at the start of this week’s Doctor Who that speaks volumes. As “The Pilot” begins and Bill...
DOCTOR WHO – ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’
[usr 3.5] “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” is, as Steven Moffat has acknowledged, an homage to the superhero comics of his youth, and particularly...
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, 9.4 – ‘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...