On Doctor Who’s Finale, the Biggest Questions Have the Smallest Answers
Doctor Who is a show about questions more than anything else—more than about time, than about space, than about monsters, than about running up and down corridors to and away…
I’m Beginning to Miss Doctor Who’s Domestic Moments
The latest season of Doctor Who is barreling toward its end, and barreling toward things is something the 15th Doctor and Ruby have been doing an awful lot of in…
Doctor Who Swipes Right on an Incredibly Fraught Allegory
Doctor Who, like all science fiction, has always rooted its storytelling in allegory—raising ideas to challenge its contemporary audience through stories of the past, the future, of monsters, and running…
Doctor Who Returns to Remind Us We’re All Stories, in the End
Doctor Who is one of the most malleable shows on Earth. Its heroes change every few years, its titular one literally transforms into someone new. Every week a different time,…
Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa and Russell T. Davies on Bringing Out the Doctor’s Queerness
Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who debut last year broke the mold for many reasons, but for one excellent one among many, it meant that for the first time ever fans got…
On Doctor Who, David Tennant and Catherine Tate Are Literally Everything
If Doctor Who’s triumphant return in “The Star Beast” was a romp in Russell T. Davies’ hallmark style to prove that Doctor Who can really still feel like its recent…
Doctor Who’s Return Is the Biggest UK Drama Launch of the Year (So Far)
Initial overnight ratings have come in for Doctor Who’s highly anticipated return this past weekend in “The Star Beast,” and it’s good news for the show: numbers are way, way…
10 Years Later, “Day of the Doctor” Remains One of Doctor Who’s Finest Hours
For a show that is about the capability to be everywhere and anywhere, any period in time, Doctor Who is a show that is arguably burdened with context. Now 60…
Jodie Whittaker Reflects on Leaving Doctor Who: ‘I’m Always the Doctor’
Image: BBC It’s been a long time in the making, but as Doctor Who celebrates its 60th anniversary this weekend, it enters a new era—one that will, at least, close…
Doctor Who Anniversaries, Ranked
Screenshot: BBC So there’s only one real thing that could top it then, isn’t there? The BBC went all out a decade ago for the 50th, in what feels like…