DOCTOR WHO: DARK WATER (S8E11)
Danny dies in a road accident while on the phone to Clara. Struggling with her grief, Clara blackmails The Doctor by drugging him and threatening to throw his 7 remaining…
Danny dies in a road accident while on the phone to Clara. Struggling with her grief, Clara blackmails The Doctor by drugging him and threatening to throw his 7 remaining…
The Angels Take Manhattan sends Amy and Rory off with a chosen ending, a book from the future and the nastiest Weeping Angels idea yet.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The Big Bang opens brilliantly and ends with Amy’s wedding, but the time-travel escape in the middle left me a bit flat after The Pandorica Opens.
Cold Blood takes the Doctor under Cwmtaff to broker peace with the Silurians, and one killing on the surface undoes it. A haunting finish.