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Review: “Sherlock” Series 1, Ep 3: “The Great Game”
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2 And then we came to the end. As finales go, “The Great Game” is one great way to go out: with a bang, or rather, the possibility of a big one. Ending with an unnerving cliffhanger,...
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Review: “Doctor Who” 2010 Christmas Special: “A Christmas Carol”
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Note to BBC America: Thank you for bringing Christmas on time this year to BBC Americans like me. And to a certain chimney-hopping man in a red suit: The Moff is my new Father...
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Review: “Doctor Who” Series 6, Ep 1: “The Impossible Astronaut”
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Note to BBC Americans who’ve yet to see the episode: Look away and never look behind! Because this spoiler-filled review does not have the memory erasure abilities of a Silent upon...
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Review: “Doctor Who” Series 6, Ep 2: “Day of the Moon”
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Spoilerers should be shot on sight. (Except that is, for me, purveyor of spoilers to BBC Americans!). Last series, I learned early on about Rory’s return in the finale as “The Lone...
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Review: “Doctor Who” Series 6, Ep 4: “The Doctor’s Wife”
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ I often think “Doctor Wow” would be a more fitting title for this show, especially on weeks like this when we get an episode that is sure to come down in history as a “Doctor Who”...
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Review: “Doctor Who” Series 6, Ep 6: “The Almost People”
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ “Yowza!” This week’s “Doctor Who” episode, “The Almost People,” provides a cool cliffhanger as we head into next week’s mid-series finale (which promises its own jaw-dropping...
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Review: “Doctor Who” Series 6, Ep 7: “A Good Man Goes to War”
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Note to BBC Americans: Spoilers abound. The Steven Moffat-penned mid-series finale, “A Good Man Goes to War,” is perhaps the coolest space fairy tale that “Doctor Who” has yet...
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Review: “Doctor Who” Series 6, Ep 8: “Let’s Kill Hitler”
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2 Leadworth crop circles! Rose, Martha, and Donna! (Sorta). A sonic cane! Hitler in a cupboard! After an excruciating three-month absence from the airwaves, ”Doctor Who” – and the...
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Review: “Doctor Who” Series 6, Ep 10: “The Girl Who Waited”
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ It all started because there were two buttons. Expecting “sunsets, spires, and soaring colonnades,” the Doctor takes Amy and Rory to the planet Apalapucia, which unbeknownst to him is...
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Review: “Doctor Who” Series 7, Ep 1: “Asylum of the Daleks”
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ An overlong absence of “Doctor Who” is, well, like sex deprivation. It’s miserable for a while, then you habituate, but your first go at it after the long interim is, well,...
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