The Thirteenth Doctor
The Thirteenth Doctor stirred up stuff by being a woman — Oh, my! — and having companions who weren’t all just white, English dudes — Say what?! ‘Is this even Doctor Who anymore?’ some ask. Well, yeah, duh, you idiots, of course it is! Say what you will about Whittaker’s Doctor, the show took on a new, often refreshing tone with Chibnall as show-runner. We just wish The Doctor didn’t use her sonic all the bloody time and that some of the episodes were a little better written…
An overlooked Futurama reference and the literal handwaving of interplanetary navigation whilst wearing marigolds. Not bad!
Mr Big Bad’s new hotel is infested by mutant spiders, and only Sheffield’s sickest grime station can flush them out
A beautiful episode, in which Racist Danny Zuko plots to disrupt the US civil rights movement in possibly the most convoluted way imaginable
Smokey and The Bandit introduce The Doctor and her companions to the Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of rubbish snipers and sentient offcuts
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.
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
Love blossoms between a terrible businesswoman and an obvious serial killer in the last Holiday Special of the Whittaker Era
Too much action, too little plot, or exactly the right measure of either? And what did we think of the Full Metal Jacket Potato? We react instant(ish)ly!
How do you defeat bad Daleks? With worse Daleks, because they’re not so bad.
For our 300th episode, we spent an evening debating the ups and downs of the Thirteenth Doctor Era to date