"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." The bard may have been making a rather sweeping analogy about the pattern of one's journey through life, but for those who find themselves enamored with stagecraft, either from the au...
Facing at least a calendar year without new televised Doctor Who, we look to the many other ways we and all Whovians can "get our Gallifreyan fix" in most entertaining ways.
Gazing into Season 14 like so many 15th century telescopes, we step back to a Baker and Sladen historical piece with a talented, if singularly gendered, supporting cast.
This week, we enjoy a boisterous, loud, daresay explosive hour-long adventure as our first and last piece of new televised Doctor Who content of the year. An all-too-familiar opponent makes a new appearance from a rather old point of origin, which lead...
After rewatching and processing the ten installments of Series 11, we look at the season in total, and the impression it leaves on us in retrospect. We assess the series as a storytelling set, identify our highs and lows, and comment on the performance...
"I know that voice..." This week, Series 11 -- and the year 2018 -- closes with a bit of an off-planet chess match in "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos".
If we were to take some of the best things our respective fandoms have given us this year to date, wrap them lovingly in fancy paper, add a few ribbons and bows for detail, possibly place them under a tree or on a candle-lit table, chase away the cat w...
After checking that all the mirrors in the studio do in fact have us looking back in them, we settle in for a discussion of the penultimate episode of Season 11. Continue reading ?
This week, we get another invaluable history lesson from Team TARDIS in the eighth installment of Series 11, "The Witchfinders". Continue reading ?
Just in time to properly worry about Cyber Monday, Series 11 gives us "Kerblam!" a statement about the worries over technological advancement and automation, as well as the dangers of (all too human) fanatical extremism. Continue reading ?
When the world around you feels like a burning trashbag, there are many -- many -- of us who seek the temporary refuge of laughter. We rely on comedy and humor to brighten our days, distract our conscious minds, perhaps bond with others, and even relea...
Asking Chris Chibnall to step away from the pen this week, we are given Vinay Patel's fascinating depiction of the 1947 Partition of India, in "Demons of the Punjab". Continue reading ?
This week, we tie on our bibs and tuck in to a heaping coil of antimatter with "The Tsuranga Conundrum", marking the midpoint in Series 11. We're all in agreement that this is stock-in-trade, dare we say "classic" Doctor Who, involving a complex set of...
This week, we peek over the top of the couch (or possibly the hotel tub?) to see what the reactions are to a spider the size of a van in the fourth episode of Series 11. Continue reading ?
Small decisions can change the course of history. With equal parts concern and anticipation, we sat down to watch Doctor Who this past weekend, and see what would happen when Rosa Parks was depicted in a British science fiction television series. Conti...
With sand in our shoes, and a swank pair of sunglasses on our faces, we tumble across the viewing landscape in pursuit of the second episode of Series 11, "The Ghost Monument". Continue reading ?
We may be a single generation away from effective use of the term "Saturday Morning Cartoons", as the accessibility of streaming services and on-demand entertainment brings any number of options to audiences at any time, on any day. But for adults view...
This week, we finally drop from our levitation points above the couch to hug each other with adrenaline-fueled delight at the first full adventure of the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends in "The Woman Who Fell to Earth". Continue reading ?
With only days to go before Doctor Who returns, we pause in the eye of the storm, and speak our hearts directly to two most important recipients: to Jodie Whittaker herself; and to the viewer who will be finding the program for the first time this seas...
Strapping on our weed-killer backpacks, and exercising absolutely ZERO patience for thug henchmen, we plunge into the undergrowth of "The Seeds of Doom", the closing story of Season 13. Continue reading ?