Contrary to my expectations, learning Missy’s identity wasn’t the most interesting thing about “Dark Water.” Sure, I’m curious to know how the Master escaped what appeared to be a self-sacrificial end in a blaze of…

Like the thoughts swarming so quickly around Maebh Arden that she couldn’t slow them down, the ideas in Frank Cottrell Boyce’s first Doctor Who story fly around so fast that I, at least, don’t feel…

The sight of the Doctor’s hand moving the miniature TARDIS away from the train tracks in “Flatline” may be the weirdest sight Doctor Who has served up so far this season. (It’s certainly one of…

More than halfway through series eight, Doctor Who remains firmly on track. An artful and entertaining homage to Agatha Christie and old-fashioned mummy movies all at once, “Mummy on the Orient Express” also offers many…

Is “Kill the Moon” the first “base under siege” story in Doctor Who in which a base comes under siege from itself? Well, not the base, technically, but the moon—the egg—on which it stands. The…

So here’s a theory about the mysterious Missy, self-appointed “God” of the “Promised Land” (a.k.a. Nethersphere) to which deceased characters keep departing this season: She is the Doctor’s daughter. No, not Jenny, the super-soldier derived…

I saw a lot of lens flare in “Time Heist”—not just a few sparkles here and there, but all-out bursts of brilliance that put the incandescence in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movies to shame. Brief…