‘Are we There Yet?’ – Doctor Who 13.8: Legend of the Sea Devils
Into the Void On the surface, show runner Chris Chibnall’s penultimate episode dons the ingredients of a rip-roaring special. We’ve got a real life pirate queen from the actual history…
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‘Today is Tomorrow. It Happened’ – Doctor Who 13.7: Eve of the Daleks
Groundhog Day of the Daleks Doctor Who is known for taking seemingly unrelated genres and stories, only to then hurl them head on at one another. While this occasionally generates…
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‘Wibbly Wobbly, Story Wory’ – Doctor Who Flux Chapter Six: The Vanquishers
Oh, for Flux Sake Contrary to how it may appear, I’ve desperately wanted to like Flux. The scope and ambition behind such a series is one that’s hard not to…
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‘So Much to Explain, so Little Time’ – Doctor Who Flux Chapter Five: Survivors of the Flux
Diminishing Chaos Flux’s fourth chapter falls into the usual trappings of a standard Chibnall episode. Aggressive scene hopping, people standing around explaining stuff to one another, new plot lines…
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‘Cerebral Stowaways’ – Doctor Who Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels
Serialised Harmony This is actually a pretty darn decent episode. Perhaps the most consistent, structured, solid and entertaining instalment to the Flux serialisation to date. There’s a lot to praise…
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‘Reflections of Yesteryear’ – Doctor Who Flux Chapter Three: Once, Upon Time
Narrative Disarray Episode three of Flux’s six-part serialisation follows on immediately from last week’s story. Yaz (Mandip Gill) has found herself trapped upon a holographic plate located on the planet…
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‘A Dan with a Pan’ – Doctor Who Flux Chapter Two: War of the Sontarans
The Invasion of Time There are elements within War of the Sontarans that I admire. Firstly, it’s more structured than the previous week. While I enjoyed The Halloween Apocalypse to…
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‘Spooky Cocktails’ – Doctor Who Flux Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse
It’s clear that show runner Chris Chibnall is gunning to make his final full series on the show his most ambitious yet. Doctor Who Flux’s opening chapter, the Halloween Apocalypse,…
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‘The Second Coming’ – What Russell T Davies’ Return means for the Future of Doctor Who
As hard as it may be to admit, Doctor Who has been struggling for quite some time now. A lot of people like to point the blame solely at Chris…
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‘Battle of the Pots’ – Doctor Who 12.11: Revolution of the Daleks
Despite some of my reservations regarding the more recent episodes of Doctor Who, I found myself looking forward to 2021’s new year’s special, Revolution of the Daleks. After all, it…
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‘Something New, Something Bold’ – Doctor Who 11.3: Rosa
I’m not normally a fan of Doctor Who episodes set in the past. Not because I find history boring, I just often don’t think they’re done very well. The show’s…
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‘Fictional Vistas’ – Doctor Who 11.2 The Ghost Monument
The first thing to mention about this episode is how utterly bloody gorgeous it looks. Opting to shoot this one in South Africa was a fab decision, not just for…
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‘Welcome to the Revolution’ – Doctor Who 11.1 The Woman who Fell to Earth
The Woman who Fell to Earth is an interesting beast; one I am still attempting to process in my head. Most notably, the shift in pace compared to more recent…
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‘Generational Conflicts’ – Doctor Who 10.13: Twice Upon a Time
As exciting as all that first Doctor hullabaloo sounded upon its initial announcement, there was indeed an aura of apprehension in the air prior to Twice Upon a Time’s release.…
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‘Digital Fictions’ – Doctor Who 10.6: Extremis
In the Vatican’s secret library of blasphemy lies an ancient book known as The Veritas. Whenever anyone throughout history has read this book, they’ve taken their life immediately. When a…
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‘Until my Dying Breath’ – Doctor Who 10.5 Oxygen
While it isn’t exactly going to blow minds or gobble up awards, Oxygen functions as a fairly competent instalment to series ten, operating as a nice little standalone piece before…
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‘Bunking with Beasts’ – Doctor Who 10.4: Knock Knock
Bill and her University friends are trying to rent a house. Whereas most places are either too small or too expensive, one fits their criteria down to a tee. It…
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‘Beneath the Surface’ Doctor Who 10.3: Thin Ice
The Doctor and Bill visit the last ever Thames Frost Fair in Regency era England. When they both take it upon themselves to investigate a series of disappearances upon the…
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‘Hollow Linguistics’ – Doctor Who 10.2: Smile
Frank Cottrell-Boyce previous attempt at writing for this show was 2014’s In The Forest of the Night. To call that episode a misfire is perhaps the friendliest way to describe…
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‘Moffat Rebooted’ Doctor Who 10.1: The Pilot
The Doctor and Nardole go undercover as a professor/assistant at Duke’s University in Bristol. While there, the Doctor befriends a girl named Bill Potts. After falling for a fellow student…
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