Doctor Who Season 8
VOD TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 12 (Death in Heaven)
November 9, 2014 | Simon KinnearAll week, it’s been hard to ignore a particular strain of Doctor Who fans, running about with their hands in the ears, shouting “la la la” at everybody mentioning that The Master is now a woman. Whether down to deep-rooted … Read More
VOD TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 11 (Dark Water)
November 1, 2014 | Simon KinnearDoctor Who finales are tricky things. In the old days, they didn’t really bother having them at all, bar the occasional attempt to do a bigger-than-usual story… but usually, by then, they’d run out of money to do their ambitions … Read More
VOD TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 10 (In the Forest of the Night)
October 25, 2014 | Simon KinnearIn The Forest of the Night sees The Doctor find Earth taken over by trees. Our review of Episode 10 of Season 8…
What is Doctor Who? Frankly, given that this is a series about a face-changing alien who can … Read More
VOD TV review: Doctor Who Season 8 Episode 9 (Flatline)
October 18, 2014 | Simon KinnearThe ultimate irony of Flatline – a story about two-dimensional villains – is that it comes at a time when Doctor Who is the most three-dimensional it has been in years. The geek-heavy mythos and tonal flippancy of the Smith … Read More
VOD TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 8 (Mummy on the Orient Express)
October 12, 2014 | Simon KinnearDuring the 2012 mini-season, the Doctor Who production team started to commission tie-in posters to reinforce the modern preference for high-concept, movie-style pitches. Despite the wow factor of the designs, the episodes were disappointingly reductive – when faced with a … Read More
VOD TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 7 (Kill the Moon)
October 4, 2014 | Simon KinnearRemember Armin Tamzarian? To many Simpsons fans, the name represents the horrible moment that a series defied its own (admittedly elastic) continuity and declared that Principal Seymour Skinner, a major character since the start of the show, was an imposter, … Read More
VOD TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 6 (The Caretaker)
September 28, 2014 | Simon Kinnear“Crocodopolis,” The Doctor suggests to Clara as their next destination. “They worship a giant crocodile there, so that’s a useful coincidence.” Here’s another – The Doctor has hung around this particular London neighbourhood four times now on-screen, and each time … Read More
TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 5 (Time Heist)
September 20, 2014 | Simon KinnearIt is one of the more amusing ironies of Doctor Who, a series about time travel, that it can hardly ever succeed in making a decent story with ‘Time’ in the title. Check out the official Doctor Who Magazine poll … Read More
TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 4 (Listen)
September 13, 2014 | Simon KinnearOne day, we’re going to find out that Steven Moffat is actually a time traveller and has been writing his episodes of Doctor Who out of order. How else to explain an episode like Listen, whose crystalline perfection – tautly … Read More
TV review: Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 3 (Robot Of Sherwood)
September 7, 2014 | Simon KinnearImagine the scene. Showrunner Steven Moffat is outlining his plans for the forthcoming season of Doctor Who to his Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss. “We’re going more traditional this year. An older Doctor, less chatty and more cantankerous. Darker stories, too.”