Tag Archives: Doctor Who

Doctor Who S9.09 “Sleep No More” review

There are plenty of firsts in “Sleep No More”. It’s the first found footage episode of Doctor Who, the first not to feature the show’s famous title sequence and the first standalone episode of series nine. It’s also the first episode this series that fails to hit the mark, despite …

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Doctor Who S9.06 “The Woman Who Lived” review

This year has been all about playing with the format of two-part stories. But while “The Witch’s Familiar” and “Before The Flood” continued the tales set up in their respective first parts, “The Woman Who Lived” is an entirely separate entity, the only continuing elements being the Doctor, Maisie Williams’ …

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Doctor Who S9.03 “Under The Lake” review

Doctor Who has done ghost stories before, base-under-siege stories before, and stories with underwater menaces before. Here’s one combining all three, and it’s a tense, claustrophobic affair, well shot and edited but bordering on exhausting and, visually speaking, oppressively gloomy. Toby Whithouse’s fifth script for the show might be full …

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Doctor Who S8.01 – Deep Breath Review

“Deep Breath”. Is it a title? Or a statement of intent? Armed with “attack eyebrows” and a taste for the grisly, the Peter Capaldi era arrives with a tale that delivers a literal change of pace for Doctor Who, trading the giddy, pirouetting, breathless energy of Matt Smith for something …

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