“The Coach With The Dragon Tattoo” Review
The sentient tattoo feels like something straight out of Series 1 Torchwood (in fact, I have a recollection of this plot actually being used in The X-Files). The amateur alien-bungling […]
Film, TV & Radio
“For Tonight We Might Die” Review
Class is the fourth BBC TV spin-off from Doctor Who, this one aimed at ‘young adults’ created by novelist Patrick Ness, who to my knowledge has written nothing in the […]
“The Miser” Review
Another fine adventure with an elaborate extortion plot with plenty of action involving a class 81 diesel locomotive, and a helicopter car chase. It’s colourful again, and exciting, and a […]
“Return to Castle De’ath” Review
“Mrs Peel! We’re needed!” The extraordinary excitement of Steed and Mrs Peel returning in a tale of pernicious pipers has caused me to leap-frog my overdue Lost Episode reviews (I took last […]
“Hell Bent” Review
I’ve taken a few days to try to unpick my thoughts about this episode. But it’s a mess. After the finely crafted Face the Raven and the near-perfect Heaven Sent, […]
“Heaven Sent” Review
I have no idea what to write about Heaven Sent. I was looking forward to it – not least because, with just one actor for the whole episode, it would […]
“Face the Raven” Review
Just as we reach the episodes I’ve most been looking forward to this season, I’ve unavoidably fallen behind. At the time of writing, Heaven Sent has aired but I […]
“Sleep No More” Review
I like it that Doctor Who is still experimenting in its 52nd year. But experiments wouldn’t be experiments if they never fail. Actually this wasn’t a bad episode (the low-for-Doctor-Who AI of […]
“The Zygon Inversion” Review
Almost flawless up until the last 2 minutes, but with a careless epilogue that undid much of the good work. I said last week that Osgood was the moral nucleus […]
“The Zygon Invasion” Review
Being a kids show, I’d have considered Doctor Who ill equipped to tackle the very hardest issues dominating the news at present – terrorism, migration, so called ‘radicalisation’. This, of […]
“The Woman Who Lived” Review
Mysterious, intimate, atmospheric. This sublime sequel to The Girl Who Died is a pared back reflection on immortality – not something new for Doctor Who – but rarely done this well. […]
Women Writing Doctor Who
On Saturday, the first episode of Doctor Who written by a woman since 2009 will be broadcast. In the 6 years since The Poison Sky there have been 75 episodes […]