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Fall Premiere: Doctor Who – “Let’s Kill Hitler”
“Let’s Kill Hitler” August 27th, 2011 When Steven Moffat threw that title at the end of “A Good Man Goes to War,” I was imagining something…different. In my mind, it sounded like a right rollicking caper, a piece of historical … Continue reading
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Season Premiere: Torchwood: Miracle Day – “The New World”
“The New World” July 8th, 2011 It’s a familiar story by now: like a large number of other critics, Torchwood was pretty far off my radar until Children of Earth (which I reviewed here), the show’s third series/season that took … Continue reading
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Midseason Finale: Doctor Who – “A Good Man Goes to War”
“A Good Man Goes to War” June 11th, 2011 My choice not to review “The Rebel Flesh” and “The Almost People” is partly due to the awkwardness created by BBC America making the idiotic decision to take a one-week hiatus … Continue reading
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Doctor Who – “The Doctor’s Wife”
“The Doctor’s Wife” May 14th, 2011 It isn’t exactly news that Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who is expressly interested in the poetic: between The Girl Who Waited, The Boy Who Waited, and the tragic love story of the Doctor and River … Continue reading
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Doctor Who – “Day of the Moon”
“Day of the Moon” April 30th, 2011 [Note: while this does not air until a bit later this evening in the U.S., I’m embracing my independence from any one particular country to post my review when it’s finished so that … Continue reading
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Season Premiere: Doctor Who – “The Impossible Astronaut”
“The Impossible Astronaut” April 23rd, 2011 “Human beings – I thought I’d never get done saving you.” As Doctor Who enters its sixth “series” (which I refer to as season above to avoid confusion with similarly titled posts on the … Continue reading
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Doctor Who – “A Christmas Carol”
“A Christmas Carol” December 25th, 2010 My “first” experience with Doctor Who, at least more than off-handed glimpses of the Eccleston era, was “Waters of Mars.” I received the screener, watched the episode, and sort of decided that I should … Continue reading
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Review – Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series [Blu-Ray]
Last week, Craig Ferguson dedicated almost an entire episode to a television show. Now, this isn’t entirely uncommon in television talk shows, but it’s normally someone like Oprah searching for the zeitgeist by introducing the cast of Glee or something. … Continue reading
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The Pleasure of the ‘Unnecessary’: BBC’s Sherlock
The Pleasure of the ‘Unnecessary’: BBC/PBS’ Sherlock July 31st, 2010 / October 24th, 2010 Before I watched it, I found Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ Sherlock [which premiered tonight on PBS in the U.S., but which aired on the BBC … Continue reading
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