TV #5 of 2016:
Doctor Who, season 9
I know I just watched it as it first aired, but last year’s season of Doctor Who was just as incredible the second time around. My review from a month ago stands:
I know a lot of people have cooled on Doctor Who lately — or perhaps just on showrunner Steven Moffat — but the season that just ended was seriously the best one since Matt Smith’s first in 2010, and free of a lot of those twisty Moffatisms that many viewers dislike. Structuring the year primarily as a sequence of two-parters was a bold choice that really paid off, with the standalone “Sleep No More” being the only episode that didn’t really work for me. (And even that was more of an interesting failure of a unique format than an out-and-out dud.) Everything else was absolutely fabulous, with a couple of series-high greats. Definitely worth catching up on if you had stopped watching at some point!
★★★★★
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