A Good Man Goes to War: The Army Was the Trap
A Good Man Goes to War has the Doctor take an asteroid without firing a shot, lose anyway, and learn who River Song is. The reveal lands perfectly.
A Good Man Goes to War has the Doctor take an asteroid without firing a shot, lose anyway, and learn who River Song is. The reveal lands perfectly.
The Almost People gives the Doctor a duplicate of himself, asks whether a copy is a person, and ends on the most brutal cliffhanger of the Matt Smith era.
The Doctor’s Wife puts the TARDIS in a woman’s body and lets her talk back, and the show finally tells the love story it has been telling since 1963.
The Curse of the Black Spot strands the Doctor on a becalmed pirate ship where a singing woman in the reflections takes anyone who cuts a finger.
Day of the Moon beats a monster nobody can remember by hiding a message in the Apollo 11 broadcast, and gives River Song her cruellest scene yet.
The Impossible Astronaut opens Series 6 by killing the Doctor in the first fifteen minutes and introducing a monster you forget the moment you look away.
A Christmas Carol turns Dickens into time travel, letting the Doctor rewrite a cruel man’s childhood while a starliner falls out of the sky above him.
My Resident Evil Afterlife review: 3D that didn’t work for me, a copout loss of Alice’s powers, but baddies that match the games. 3 to 3.5 out of 5.
The Lodger strands the Doctor in a Colchester house share with a terrible flatmate act, a football match, and something upstairs that shouldn’t exist.
Vincent and the Doctor takes Van Gogh to see his own exhibition, and then refuses to let that fix anything. The finest hour Series 5 has produced.
Amy’s Choice traps the Doctor, Amy and Rory between two realities and forces them to work out which one to die in, guided by a very nasty little man.
The Vampires of Venice drags Rory along to 1580 to save his engagement, and finds a house full of girls with fangs who turn out not to be vampires at all.
Flesh and Stone ends the Weeping Angels two-parter with a blind walk through a forest of statues and a crack in the universe that eats people whole.
The End of Time Part Two answers four knocks, reveals why the Doctor ended the Time War, and gives the Tenth Doctor the least noble death imaginable.
The End of Time Part One brings the Master back wrong, gives Wilfred Mott the best scene of the era, and ends by opening a door onto the Time War itself.
The Waters of Mars traps the Doctor on a doomed Mars base where everyone must die, and watches him decide that the laws of time no longer apply to him.
Planet of the Dead is a sunny heist on a bus, until a passenger tells the Doctor his song is ending and puts a number on it.
The Next Doctor drops the Doctor into 1851 London to meet a man claiming to be him, in a Christmas special about grief, identity and a very large Cyberman.
Journey’s End gives Donna the Doctor’s mind and the universe its best hour, then takes it away from her in the cruellest ending the show has written.
The Stolen Earth takes the planet out of the sky, brings every companion back at once, reveals Davros, and ends on the show’s cruellest cliffhanger.
Turn Left changes one small decision in Donna’s life and watches Britain collapse without the Doctor, in the bleakest hour Doctor Who has ever produced.