Yasmin Khan

One of arguably too many companions of the opening TARDIS team of the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan was a police officer and seemed like a nice person. We got to meet her family — Great! She had tonnes of agency at first — Awesome! But after a while, it’s fair to say we felt that she wasn’t as well-written anymore and that she turned into a gratuitous exposition-machine.
Podcast N156 Spyfall, Part 1 (re-review) > > > > > > > > >

The Doctor’s nemesis returns as a chap with mommy issues conspires with extra-dimensional beings to turn humankind into wifi hard drives!
Podcast N155 Resolution — The 2019 New Year’s Special (re-review) > > > >

Dalek Rec doesn’t stand a chance against Chekhov’s combination oven
Podcast N154 The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos > > > > >

The tooth fairy returns with an oversimplified god complex and acolytes who don’t seem to realise THEY’RE the creators
Podcast N153 It Takes You Away > > > > > >

A frog convinces the worst dad in Norway to reenact the plot of The Village in an emotionally complex story with a lot of retro-rewrite potential
Podcast N152 The Witchfinders > > > > > > >

Will The King’s pricker stand a chance against good old-fashioned Lancashire mud?
Podcast N151 Kerblam! > > > >

The Head of People tears the Heads of Robots in this unexpectedly divisive episode
Podcast N150 Demons of the Punjab > > > >

We learn about the Partition of India, while multi-ocular members of the band Lordi scare the heck out of anyone dying alone.

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