The Reality War: A Finale That Wishes Itself Out of Every Corner
The Reality War discards the Rani, invents a daughter, rewrites Belinda’s whole series, and regenerates the Doctor into a face it refuses to explain.
The Reality War discards the Rani, invents a daughter, rewrites Belinda’s whole series, and regenerates the Doctor into a face it refuses to explain.
Lucky Day brings Ruby back and turns a conspiracy streamer into the villain. Angrier and sharper than this era usually manages, and it bites.
Empire of Death kills the entire universe, then undoes it and drags Sutekh behind the TARDIS on a rope. The Ruby Sunday mystery deflates completely.
The Legend of Ruby Sunday spends an hour setting up its finale and ends on a genuinely great reveal. Getting there is a lot of people watching a monitor.
The Giggle gives Neil Patrick Harris the best villain the show has had in years, then ends the Doctor’s story with a fudge nobody asked for.
The Vanquishers has to resolve every thread Flux started and does it in under an hour. Three Doctors, four villains, and almost no room to land any of it.
Three Doctors, a weapon with a conscience, and an anniversary special that reaches back into the show’s darkest decision and quietly undoes it.
A billion small black cubes arrive on Earth and do nothing for a year, in an episode that is wonderful about ordinary life and hopeless about its own monster.