Season 14 Review – Doctor Who Stumbles Along

Well, the verdict is in, at least for this season.

So what have we got?

Disappointment I’m afraid.

So far the Gatwa era consists of an extended cameo in David Tenant’s “The Giggle,” the Christmas Special, “Church on Ruby Road,” and an eight episode season starting with Space Babies and Ending with Empire of Death.

Overall impressions? Deeply uneven. Mostly unsatisfying. Three brilliant episodes, two unfocused sub-par efforts that we’ll generously call mediocre, and an opening and closing set of dumpster fires.

The larger problems?  Gatwa’s overacting masks an underlying lack of commitment or emotional depth. RTD has become a shallow parody of himself. And critically, the show is deeply stagnant and failing to evolve or change.  We’re getting the same old same old, as we got fifteen years ago, just tired and worn out.

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