The Pandorica Opens: A Message From River and a Box Under Stonehenge
The Pandorica Opens is a finale that lives up to the hype: a message from River, Stonehenge, Rory in Roman times and a trap for the Doctor. Spoilers ahead.
The Pandorica Opens is a finale that lives up to the hype: a message from River, Stonehenge, Rory in Roman times and a trap for the Doctor. Spoilers ahead.
The Lodger strands the Doctor in a Colchester flat share with James Corden, a football match, and an 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.
Cold Blood takes the Doctor under Cwmtaff to broker peace with the Silurians, and one killing on the surface undoes it. A haunting finish.
The Hungry Earth sends the Doctor, Amy and Rory to a Welsh village where a drill has gone too deep and the graves are emptying. Silurians await.
Amy’s Choice puts the Doctor, Amy and Rory in a sleepy village and a dying TARDIS, with a Dream Lord twisting the knife in both.
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 Time of Angels sends the Doctor, Amy and River Song into a maze of statues, and the Angels are as scary as ever. Here’s what I thought.
Victory of the Daleks puts Matt Smith’s Doctor in Churchill’s war rooms with tea-serving Daleks. I loved the idea, less so the new paint job.
The Eleventh Hour crash-lands Matt Smith’s new Doctor in Amelia Pond’s garden, in a debut with a few hiccups and a stellar Karen Gillan.
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.