“Last Christmas” is the most ambitious Christmas special Doctor Who has given us. What other adjective adequately describes a holiday entertainment that asks viewers to both disavow belief in Santa Claus and confront their own…
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…
Note: The following contains some character arc and minor plot spoilers for the first season of True Detective. In the penultimate episode of True Detective’s first season, our two not-always-heroic heroes Marty (Woody Harrelson)…
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…
Usually when I say I’m an anime fan, people tend to think that I have my house decorated with the cheesiest Japanese tchotchkes, posters of Dragon Ball Z hanging over my bed, a scantily-clad Sailor…
(Why I’m recommending The Walking Dead…but not for the reason you think) With Halloween quickly approaching and the uncanny popularity of The Walking Dead (both the television show and its comic book predecessor), it’s safe…
Okay, you guys. I don’t know if this is the right audience, but I’m doing this on your behalf. Beyond the apples, pies and candy, I’m recommending something for you that will make this harvesty…
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…
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