The Power of Three: The Year of the Slow Invasion
The Power of Three drops a billion black cubes on Earth that do nothing for a year, wonderful about ordinary life and hopeless about its monster.
The Power of Three drops a billion black cubes on Earth that do nothing for a year, wonderful about ordinary life and hopeless about its monster.
A Town Called Mercy hides a war criminal in a frontier town with a cyborg waiting outside the line, and the Doctor nearly throws a man to his death.
My Resident Evil Retribution review: good action and some favourite faces back, but nothing much happens and Alice as a mom didn’t work. 2.5 to 3 out of 5.
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship sends a Silurian ark at Earth with Rory’s dad aboard holding a trowel, and the Doctor does something genuinely cold.
Asylum of the Daleks: they kidnap the Doctor to save them, and a girl making souffles in a crashed ship is the most upsetting reveal in years.
The Amazing Spider-Man reboots Peter Parker five years after Raimi. Andrew Garfield’s take, mechanical web-shooters, and a Lizard that never quite lands.
My Avengers 2012 review: Joss Whedon turned five films of setup into a team-up that works, funny and legible where it counts.
Once Upon a Time’s second episode pits Operation Cobra against Regina’s schemes, and I think it’s already one of the show’s most pivotal hours.
The Wedding of River Song collapses all of history into one afternoon when River won’t fire, and then gets out of a fixed point through a loophole.
Closing Time sends the Doctor to babysit with Craig Owens and fight Cybermen in a department store, with a goodbye hiding under every joke.
The God Complex puts the Doctor in a fake 1980s hotel with a room for every guest’s worst fear, and it’s more ruthless about him than I expected.
The Girl Who Waited strands Amy in a faster time stream for thirty-six years, and makes Rory choose which version of his wife gets to live.
Night Terrors answers a child’s cry for help and finds a cupboard full of monsters, in a small, warm horror story about a father learning what his son is.
Let’s Kill Hitler shoves Hitler in a cupboard, regenerates Amy’s childhood friend into River Song, and explains why she can’t regenerate in the library.
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 Flesh copy of himself, asks whether a copy is a person, and ends on the most brutal cliffhanger of the series so far.
The Rebel Flesh takes the Doctor to a factory in an old monastery, where the Flesh copies wake up after a storm and want lives of their own.
The Doctor’s Wife puts the TARDIS inside a woman called Idris and lets her talk back, and the show tells a love story it’s 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 with a shock at Lake Silencio, Nixon in 1969 and the Silence, a monster you forget the moment you look away.