The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos: A Finale That Forgot to Be One
Series 11 ends with Tim Shaw as a false god and Graham deciding whether to avenge Grace, in a finale with no scale, no stakes and no season to resolve.
Series 11 ends with Tim Shaw as a false god and Graham deciding whether to avenge Grace, in a finale with no scale, no stakes and no season to resolve.
A cabin in Norway hides a mirror world that offers back the dead, in the strangest and most divisive episode of Series 11, and the one Graham needed.
The fam land in Pendle during a witch hunt, and the Doctor discovers how little her authority counts now, in an episode with a great idea and a mud monster.
A help message in a Kerblam! delivery sends the fam undercover in a galactic warehouse, in the season’s most conventional and most argued-about episode.
Yaz travels to 1947 Punjab to find out about her grandmother’s first husband, in the season’s best-judged hour and its smartest use of a monster.
A creature that eats energy gets loose on a medical transport, in the season’s flimsiest hour, redeemed slightly by a genuinely good monster design.
Giant spiders overrun a Sheffield hotel built on a landfill, in an episode that wants to be about corporate greed and forgets to be about spiders.
Rosa puts the fam in Montgomery in 1955 and asks them to protect a fixed point, in an episode whose historical drama is far better than its science fiction.
If you were to casually scroll through sci-fi forums or Twitter this week, you’d be forgiven for thinking Doctor Who Series 11 just parked the TARDIS right on top of…
The Doctor and the fam get stranded on Desolation in a race across a dead planet, in a handsome, weightless episode that drops the season’s only real clue.
Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor falls through a train roof with no TARDIS, no sonic and no memory, in a debut that gets the character right and the plot wrong.
Two Doctors refuse to regenerate at the same moment, in a slight, gentle Christmas special that exists almost entirely to say goodbye properly.