Jul 1 2017
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What makes a great Doctor Who finale? The basic answer is the same as that for any show—bring the stories told over…
Alasdair Wilkins
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Jun 24 2017
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Like the opening entries of most of new Doctor Who’s two-parters, “World Enough And Time” has to hold most of the…
Jun 17 2017
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“The Eaters Of Light” feels like a throwback to a different era of Doctor Who. That isn’t surprising given the…
Jun 14 2017
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Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re…
Jun 12 2017
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There’s an obvious choice for the most striking bit of tonight’s episode, and it’s when Bob shatters the skylight…
Jun 10 2017
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There’s a pair of fascinating ideas at the core of “Empress Of Mars.” The first is more philosophical: As the Doctor…
Jun 3 2017
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There’s an oft-cited principle of young-adult storytelling—I actually already mentioned it a few weeks back—that the…
Jun 3 2017
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The first bit of tonight’s episode is really good, at least. It’s an irresistible premise: In the wake of Bill’s…
May 27 2017
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It feels churlish to call this Class’ best episode. After all, to do so would imply that Class is at its best when…
May 27 2017
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For most of its 45-minute running time, “The Pyramid At The End Of The World” is fine. Not much more than that,…
May 24 2017
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For much of tonight’s episode, this felt like the end of Arrow. Sure, those damn flashbacks were often shackles for…
May 22 2017
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It’s not always easy to tell whether a season-ending Bob’s Burgers episode is actually meant to serve as a proper…
May 20 2017
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Well, this is pretty much exactly what I was hoping Class would become, even if took two thirds of the season to get…
May 20 2017
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In each of Peter Capaldi’s three seasons aboard the TARDIS, Steven Moffat has for his Doctor an experimental,…
May 18 2017
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Arrow doesn’t do this sort of episode too often, but my goodness was tonight’s story the archetypal example of a…
May 13 2017
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The first three episodes of Class range from fine to really good hours of television, but the subsequent two-parter…
May 13 2017
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“Oxygen” should have been a two-parter.
May 10 2017
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This is a problem with genre storytelling that goes far beyond tonight’s Arrow, but now is as good a time as any to…
May 8 2017
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Tonight’s Bob’s Burgers is a damn delight, building an increasingly absurd half-hour of comedy out of a recognition…
May 6 2017
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Well, that got delightfully stupid at the end there, didn’t it?