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The first Russell T. Davies era of Doctor Who contained several consistent hallmarks: Fiesty companions who prove ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things; complex supporting characters with depth and agency; deep cuts from classic lore; and twisty plots that tended to make almost no sense at all from
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Doctor Who’s new reboot era has garnered buzz in cultural circles for many “firsts” in LGBTQ+ representation. So far, there’s been the first gay Doctor, the first gay kiss in Doctor Who, the first transgender actor, the first transgender character, and so on. All of these have happened,
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One of the best things about Doctor Who, as a series, is its willingness to revisit, reimagine, and interrogate its own long-running history. For all that showrunner Russell T. Davies has insisted this latest incarnation of the sci-fi classic, with its new home on Disney+ and the bigger budget to
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If there's one thing Russell T. Davies is going to do, it's craft a big, loud, splashy two-parter to close out any season of Doctor Who he's involved in. From "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways" back during
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Somewhat unintentionally, this season of Doctor Who has somehow managed to spin itself into the most timely thing on television. The Ruby-centric "73 Yards," whose primary villain was an aggressive nationalist and xenophobic politician with his hand on the nuclear trigger, arrived just as real-life Prime Minister Rishi
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Doctor Who's much-ballyhooed move to Disney+ didn't quite work the way most assumed, with the House of Mouse deciding not to bother to do much to promote the trio of 60th anniversary specials. To be fair, the three-episode mini-season featuring former-turned-current Doctor David Tennant was an
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Doctor Who is a show that is aspirational at its heart. Travel hopefully; never cruel or cowardly, and above all, be kind. Because of this, it's easy to assume that the stories it tells are always happy ones and that everything turns out alright in the end. The
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that some of Doctor Who's best episodes barely feature the show's primary character. These so-called "Doctor-lite" episodes were initially deployed during showrunner Russell T. Davies' first tenure to help mask the fact that the show was filming
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Doctor Who launched Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa's first season in the TARDIS with a pair of episodes that represented much of what this show is supposed to be and do. One episode is set in the future, and the other looks back to the past. One is a
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After a three-part 60th anniversary celebration that gave us back an old Doctor and a holiday special that introduced a new one, Doctor Who is finally back on our screens with its first proper full season in several years. (No, whatever "Flux" was does not count.) Led by
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There's rarely been a better time to be a Doctor Who fan than right now. The franchise is as successful as it's ever been, riding the high of a wildly popular sixtieth-anniversary outing last Fall that saw the return of the most popular actor of the
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The new era of Doctor Who has been coming in fits and starts since Jodie Whittaker's exit in the centenary special in October 2022. The series moved house in the U.S. from BBC America to Disney+ with the trio of 60th Anniversary specials, and the series properly