Aired 02 December 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW In a debut series both for the core cast and showrunner that has often put more of a priority on character than sprawling science fiction, it’s perhaps no surprise that the penultimate episode, ‘It Takes You Away’ by Ed Hime, attempts to fuse both with unquestionably the most […]
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Released November 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW With the TARDIS perched amidst the ancient spires of Sedgwick College in 1930s Cambridge, the Doctor, Steven, and Vicki soon find themselves in the middle of a leadership crisis as an election for the replacement of the disappeared Master of Sedgwick, Sir Isaiah Hardy, is underway. With the Proctors […]
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Once more stepping aside from a four-story arc structure to tell more standalone tales, UNIT looks to the past and the secrets within the Black Archive as three new threats emerge in the aptly-titled Revisitations. Chris Chapman opens this seventh series with a two-part serial entitled ‘Hosts of the Wirrn,’ continuing this series’s strong effort […]
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Aired 25 November 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Doctor Who’s renewed focus on historical adventures has provided two lasting classics with ‘Rosa’ and ‘Demons of the Punjab,’ offering intimate and deliberate character pieces that explored true tragedy, weakness, and strength in equal measure. As the TARDIS lands in Lancashire during the seventeenth century and its notorious […]
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Released March 2015 For a series initially intended to be a one-off four-hour narrative detailing the machinations of the Time Lords and the Daleks that centred upon the seemingly ordinary World War I VAD Molly O’Sullivan while a desolate Eighth Doctor searched for any remnant of hope, Dark Eyes has proven to be remarkably adept […]
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Released March 2015 The Master has proven time and time again that, despite often overly convoluted plans in which he himself is the instrument of his own destruction, he is more than capable of going toe to toe with the Doctor on an intellectual level, highlighting the ease with which the Time Lords could run […]
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Released March 2015 The Doctor and Liv’s search for the TARDIS takes them to Paris, uniquely bringing the Daleks squarely back into focus for the first time since Dark Eyes 2 as the endgame to this saga starts to form in Matt Fitton’s ‘The Monster of Montmartre.’ s Though the sidestep from the main crux […]
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Released March 2015 Following the culmination of The Eighth Doctor Adventures in 2011, the Doctor had lost far too much to the Daleks, leaving him a morose and broken man desperate to find hope once more. Over the course of three four-story sets that began with a shrouded request to rescue Molly O’Sullivan who had […]
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Chris Chibnall wasted no time in bringing his vision of Doctor Who to life, offering wonderful insight into very relatable human situations no matter the flashiness or grittiness of settings that has so far also included two harrowing looks at recent history outside of the UK. Yet while new writer Pete McTighe ensures that raw […]
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Released November 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The first volume of The Seventh Doctor New Adventures draws to a close with Tim Foley’s ‘The Dread of Night’ as the Doctor, Chris, and Roz seek shelter from the elements within a grieving household. Grief is not the only emotion running high, however, as a sinister force plagues […]
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A very slow story with a decent, if well, well-worn idea of a hidden alien menace using the emotions of…
Better than Forty 1, but drab, dull, boring and perhaps the most continuity heavy story BF have ever done. Plus,…
Now this is more like it. At first sight, another Dalek story is the last thing we need from WHO,…
This is the set that has finally ended my interest in Big Finish. it is so boring, so slow and…
Agreed. This is terrible, an insult to BF fans.
