New Who reviews

Podcast N149 The Tsuranga Conundrum > > > > > > >

An overlooked Futurama reference and the literal handwaving of interplanetary navigation whilst wearing marigolds. Not bad!

Podcast N148 Arachnids in the UK > > > >

Mr Big Bad’s new hotel is infested by mutant spiders, and only Sheffield’s sickest grime station can flush them out

Podcast N147 Rosa > > > > >

A beautiful episode, in which Racist Danny Zuko plots to disrupt the US civil rights movement in possibly the most convoluted way imaginable

Podcast N146 The Ghost Monument > > > > > > >

Smokey and The Bandit introduce The Doctor and her companions to the Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of rubbish snipers and sentient offcuts

Podcast N145 The Woman Who Fell To Earth > > > > >

A brand new Doctor, show runner and aesthetic, no TARDIS, different music. Oh, and new troops. No, not troops. Team. Gang. Fam? Either way, it’s a solid start for the Thirteenth Doctor.

Podcast N144 Twice Upon A Time — The 2017 Christmas Special (re-review) > > > > > > >

Glass Avatars from the future don’t care about Data Privacy Agreements while the first and then-latest Doctor do Timelord Kegels to keep their respective regeneration at bay

Podcast N143 The Doctor Falls > > > > >

The Genius Twins are the least of Bill’s and Doc’s worries in this highly divisive episode

Podcast N142 World Enough and Time > > > >

Bill swaps chips for microchips in the first instalment of a very clever two-parter.

Podcast N141 The Eaters of Light > > > > >

Doc & Co are happy to leave the fate of humanity in the hands of half a dozen childlike primitives with a very limited musical repertoire

Podcast N140 Empress of Mars > > > > >

Noisy Victorian males find sweet Fanny Adams on Mars, until the Ice Queen has a hissy fit