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TV: Doctor Who

Doctor Who: “The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe”

December 26, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Doctor Who, including the most recent, “The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe.” At the conclusion of David Tennant’s final Doctor Who Christmas special, “The Next Doctor,” Jackson Lake (played by David Morrissey) steps inside the TARDIS and, awestruck with delight, pronounces it “Complete and [...]

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Doctor Who 6.13: “The Wedding of River Song”

December 24, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Doctor Who. The highest compliment I can pay Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who is that it rarely fails to dazzle me, particularly in those episodes where it counts, and what’s more, each time I think it has dazzled me beyond it or any series’ ability to dazzle me [...]

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Doctor Who 6.12: “Closing Time”

December 23, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Doctor Who. Like “The Lodger,” the comedic fifth series episode to which this episode is an unofficial sequel, “Closing Time” has more to it than meets the eye. Both of these Gareth Roberts scripts might initially seem to be mere romps, but they actually have some [...]

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Doctor Who 6.11: “The God Complex”

December 22, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Doctor Who. Being a huge fan of Toby Whithouse (creator of the original Being Human and writer of previous Who episodes, “School Reunion” and “Vampires of Venice”), I had high expectations for “The God Complex,” and his third Who script certainly doesn’t disappoint. “The God Complex” actually represents [...]

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Doctor Who 6.10: “The Girl Who Waited”

December 21, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Doctor Who. “The Girl Who Waited” is one of the most emotionally gutwrenching episodes of Doctor Who I’ve ever seen. It’s also one of the best. Even months after first seeing this lush, imaginative, and, yes, traumatizing hour of television, it stuck with me. For anyone who [...]

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Doctor Who 6.09: “Night Terrors”

December 20, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Doctor Who. First an explanation for the lateness of this review: I usually do my best to review every episode of Doctor Who by the day after it airs, if not the day itself, but when the second half of Doctor Who Series 6 was airing, I [...]

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Doctor Who 6.08: “Let’s Kill Hitler”

August 28, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Doctor Who, including the most recent, “Let’s Kill Hitler.” There are so, so many reasons that “Let’s Kill Hitler” is one of the most dazzlingly, jawdroppingly ingenious episodes of Doctor Who perhaps ever, but they can all be boiled down to a single description: it [...]

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“A Most Ingenious Paradox”: Doctor Who, Series 6, Part 1

July 22, 2011
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Own it on DVD and Blu-ray Now! Check out the official site! Synopsis: Doctor Who: Series 6, Part 1, a two-disc DVD and Blu-ray set, contains the first seven episodes along with two Monster Files, “The Gangers” and “The Silence,” two of the Doctor’s most challenging opponents. In the season opener, “The Impossible Astronaut,” four envelopes are received, numbered [...]

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Doctor Who 6.07: “A Good Man Goes to War”

June 4, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Doctor Who, including the most recent, “A Good Man Goes to War.” I have no words to describe quite how I’m feeling right now. I finished watching the mid-series finale of Doctor Who hours ago, and yet I am still completely under its spell. [...]

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Doctor Who 6.06: “The Almost People”

May 28, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Doctor Who, including the most recent, “The Almost People.” So it seems as if I was likely wrong about the origin of the Flesh, but never have I been more delighted to be more surprised–no, shocked–by a plot twist. In fact, the majority of [...]

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