“Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS” “Journey” is a pretty solid episode on the whole, with its share of intriguing moments, but I’m afraid Neil Gaiman has ruined for me TARDIS-centric episodes. I’ve noticed an interesting trend this season, or at least this second half of one – Doctor […] Read more
“And Now His Watch is Ended” This week Game of Thrones offers up yet more of what we’ve come to expect from it with startling regularity: brutality, brilliant dialogue, new characters, amazing actors, lots of gore and an hour that feels like ten minutes. It also offers us the usual […] Read more
“Hide” Finally, a month in, we have our first nearly-great episode of Doctor Who this season. Neil Cross returns with his second Who story in three weeks, and happily this one is far better than the middling “Rings of Akhenaten”. Haunted houses have been pretty fertile territory for this series […] Read more
“Walk of Punishment” I really have no complaints about this episode of Game of Thrones, but it’s already started me on the always-entertaining process of trying to guess where HBO might choose to end the season. I think I have a pretty good idea, but it would entail the timeline […] Read more
“The Cold War” All in all I’d say this was the strongest episode of the three thus far this season. It was nice to see an episode focused on The Doctor, first of all, and more concerned with the plot itself than obsessing over the conspiracy plotline surrounding the Companion. […] Read more
“Dark Wings, Dark Words” In a funny sort of way, I wonder if Game of Thrones is starting to boil down to liking an episode based on personal preferences for characters and storylines. In any given week, it’s not all that far off from a 50-50 split – and it’s […] Read more
“The Rings of Akhaten” Neil Cross, the highly-acclaimed writer who created the BBC crime drama Luther, makes his initial foray into Doctor Who territory (he also wrote the episode that will air in two weeks) with an episode that takes him pretty far from his historical comfort zone. “Akhaten” stands […] Read more
“The Bells of St. John” It’s a big year for Doctor Who – the 50th Anniversary, something it’s safe to say doesn’t come along too often in the world of TV series (we’ll overlook that little matter of the 16-year hiatus). Show runner Steven Moffat has big plans, though all […] Read more
“Valar Dohaeris” The longest off-season in television – at least it feels like it – is finally over. With the premiere of Season 3 of Game of Thrones came the interesting tidbit that GoT is the most illegally downloaded series ever. That’s fascinating in its own right, but I especially […] Read more
“The Angels Take Manhattan” “That was so damned good. I laughed. I cried. I was on the edge of my seat. I jumped out of my skin. That to me is perfect entertainment. Every piece of my emotional machinery was fully engaged. I’m now going to have to have a […] Read more