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BBC America The Doctor Who Season Where the Doctor Wasn't the Star
Companion Clara propelled the action in Series Eight, even if she was kind of a jerk.
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BBC America The Trouble With Teaching Doctor Who
A professor of "Doctor Who Studies" says serious gender analysis often devolves into fannish classroom debates over which Who is better.
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BBC America Doctor Who: Older, Wiser, Sexless
The show's eighth season premiere movingly ends the David Tennant/Matt Smith era of romantic hijinks.
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The Captain Kirk Problem: How Doctor Who Betrayed Matt Smith
The actor playing the 11th Doctor performed more than admirably for four years. But the show's writers let him down.
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BBC Doctor Who's 50th-Anniversary Episode: Delightful, Fan-Servicing Chaos
"The Day of the Doctor" used an insane plot for a simple task: making diehards very, very happy.
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The Depressing, Disappointing Maleness of Doctor Who's New Time Lord
The show's mythology allows its hero to change gender and race, but its showrunner passed on tackling its history of sexism—and on getting a much-needed new energy.
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Doctor Who's Latest Big Mystery Wasn't Much of a Mystery at All
As the season finale once again showed, the "Who-is-Clara-really" storyline didn't feature real character progression—just recycled sci-fi tropes and sexist overtones.
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Doctor Who's Girl-Women Weirdness
Fans of the BBC's time-traveler series are divided over the maybe-creepy portrayals of the Doctor's young female companions under showrunner Steven Moffat.
