Parents & pacing, wastelands & Wikipedia, didacticism & disingenuousness, Russophobia, allegory, parody, and all sorts of oddness in the third episode of Doctor Who: Series 12. What an…experience.
Chris Chibnall
Spyfall: Part Two 👞 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Series 12
Cut climaxes, offscreen espionage, improvisational TV, secrets & tap dancing, casting & mad ranting…Spyfall: Part Two, the second episode of Doctor Who: Series 12, is the type of follow-up to really stoke conversation.
Spyfall: Part One 🕵️♀️ Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Series 12
Vore, spycraft, Utopia & Time Flight comparisons, descriptive audio, value depreciation, these are just a few of the things the premiere of Doctor Who: Series 12 – Spyfall: Part One – makes one think about.
An Essay on TORCHWOOD: Series 2
Neo’s written essay on TORCHWOOD: Series 2.
The show gained more consistency in its second series – but what did it lose? What did the finale mean for the show? What did it mean to cast Spike from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER? Was the focus on open communication and relationship maintenance a worthwhile iteration over the previous year’s consideration of heartfelt mundanity and work/life balance? Did Chris Chibnall write the most nuanced script of a series?
Plus a ranking of the thirteen episodes!
TORCHWOOD: Series 2 | Discussion & Review Podcast
Who Cares about Torchwood’s explosive second series? Character comfiness, narrative devastation, affirming v overstepping touch, communicative complications, and all sorts of other matters platonic & chtonic are discussed in a first viewing for one, a re-viewing for two (Neo & Ingiga), a reviewing for all, looking at the series that sees the show dig its own graves.
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Neo’s written essay on TORCHWOOD: Series 1.
What was Russell T Davies doing in 2006, setting a dark and sexy sci-fi crime drama in a city where the kebabs are velocitised? How well were the themes of the series executed, those themes of mundane life as humanising, trivium the only meaningful defence against meaningless death, and the friction of fae worlds jutting up against these mundane ones? Why do moments even beyond Cyberwoman fighting pterodactyls grate, and feel adrift with the rest of the show?
Plus a ranking of the thirteen episodes!
TORCHWOOD: Series 1 | Discussion & Review Podcast
Who Cares about Torchwood’s first series? Who cares about the adult-aimed sci-fi crime drama spinoff of DOCTOR WHO? One of us hadn’t cared at all up until now, this being her first watch, while others of us had cared a lot over the years. All of us had quite the chat, over quite the series of quite the show.
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