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Like last week, Doctor Who: Flux does not deal with its current cliffhanger upon arriving back with a new episode, but at least this week it's a little less, "and then a miracle occurred." Instead, the episode begins somewhere else, with Bel (Thaddea Graham), who is
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Last week's Doctor Who ended with the end of the universe as the Flux entered the TARDIS from every door. (There were a lot of extra doors.) The week opens with the Doctor waking up from a black and white dream with a giant haunted house to a
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Doctor Who: Flux is the show's first six-part adventure since Classic Who and 1979's "The Armageddon Factor" during the Fourth Doctor era. (Once the series crossed into the 1980s, serials shrank to 3 and 4 parters; even "Trial of a Timelord" was
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It's been ten months since the end of Doctor Who Season 12, both on-screen and off. But first, the New Year's Day special leaps back in time to a different Dalek-centric New Year's Day episode from 2019. The Doctor and her fam have just
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When Doctor Who's penultimate episode ended last week, fans had more questions than ever. How was the Boundary connected to Gallifrey? Who or what was the Timeless Child, how were Yaz and Graham going to survive being trapped on a Cyber war carrier, and what was that weird
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There are a lot of assumptions fans make about Doctor Who. The Doctor always has a plan, and when put into practice, people get saved. The companion, or companions, survive every episode, enclosed in plot armor as thick as the Doctor's. If a companion or the Doctor leaves,
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It was a dark and stormy night in Lake Geneva, 1816. Known as "The Year without a Summer" after Mount Tambora's eruption screwed with the global climate, this was the summer that inspired Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Lili Miller) to write Frankenstein. So perhaps it should not
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This week's Doctor Who begins in 1380, Aleppo, and Tahira (Aruhan Galieva) is rushing home. But the hospital where she lives it beset by alien creatures. She's tried to warn Maryam (Sirine Saba), but no one believes her, until its too late. Meanwhile, the Doctor has
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After Doctor Who's giant reveal of a new Doctor plus Jack Harness, this week starts out relatively calm. The opening feels like it should be the beginning of Seven Worlds, One Planet until a spacecraft suddenly crashes through the atmosphere. As the astronaut, Adam Lang (Matthew McNulty), desperately
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This week's Doctor Who begins in Gloucester. Ruth Clayton (Jo Martin), a 44-year-old married woman, just woke up on her birthday. It's a typical workday for her, trying to convince tourists to take her tour, while the local barista, Allan (Michael Begley), tries to persuade her
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After nearly 60 years, Doctor Who finally gets around to visiting a historical figure which one would have thought would have turned up already: Nikola Tesla (Goran ViΕ‘njiΔ). The Serbian-American inventor was the father of A/C current, best known for his electrical and mechanical engineering inventions and his futurist
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It's a banner day on the TARDIS, and not because the Doctor and fam are cleaning up after deep space squid mating season. Graham has the sixth coupon from The Bandohzi Herald, which the coffee machine upstairs delivers regularly. That means they've earned a free holiday