Doctor Who
Every verdict, newest first. 40 on the record.
Mr. Know-It-All has scored Doctor Who 28 times on the Know-It-All Index, averaging 8.2 out of 10, from a low of 6.5 to a high of 10.
The reviews
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who That Regeneration, Billie Piper, and a Season That Stuck the Landing
The finale redeemed the episode before it, brought back Thirteen, and handed the Doctor Rose Tyler's face. Mrs. Know-It-All and I talk through all of it, spoilers included.
June 2, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Narrative Car Crash I Had a Blast Watching
The Reality War is a mess, with a wasted Rani, a wasted Omega and a regeneration that makes no sense. I enjoyed every minute of it anyway, and one line in the credits has me asking what Billie Piper is actually playing.
June 1, 2025 →
7/10 Reviews Doctor Who Classic Villains Return and the Setup Is a Mess
I've loved this entire season, and Wish World is a bit of a mess. A ham-fisted message, a wish baby MacGuffin, a lackluster Omega reveal, and a Rani who plays like Missy 2.0.
May 25, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who Was That the Rani?
The Interstellar Song Contest finally gives us Ncuti Gatwa's angry Doctor, and then spends its last minute on a Rani reveal I couldn't make myself care about. Two scores, one average.
May 19, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Barbershop, a Betrayal, and a Love Letter to Storytelling
The Story and the Engine takes the Doctor to a barbershop in Lagos where stories have literal power. The revenge plot is ham-fisted, the ending is forgiveness, and it's one of the most original episodes in years.
May 11, 2025 →
6.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Pretty Mess That's Really a Soft UNIT Episode
Lucky Day sidelines the Doctor and Belinda for a Ruby Sunday rom-com that turns into a thriller, and Kate Stewart makes a call that's going to follow her. It's bold, it's expensive, and it's messy.
May 4, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who Midnight Comes Back, and So Does the Show
The Well picks up the second Lux ends, drops the Doctor and Belinda on a dead mining colony half a million years out, and then tells you what the planet used to be called. One of the best reveals Doctor Who has pulled in a long time.
May 1, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who Animation Meets Live Action and the Fourth Wall Barely Holds
Lux traps the Doctor and Belinda inside a 1952 Miami movie house with a cartoon god of light. The ending's cheap and the fan scene runs long, and it's still the Doctor Who I've been missing.
April 30, 2025 →
7.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who The Robot Revolution Has a Pulse
The Robot Revolution isn't rewriting time and space, but it did something Season 1 rarely managed: it made me want to watch next week. A skeptical new companion, a Doctor finally written for Ncuti Gatwa, and a muddy allegory that doesn't sink it.
April 27, 2025 →
7/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Part Two That Showed Its Work While It Cheated
Empire of Death resolves its main threat two thirds of the way through and spends the rest on an answer that undercuts the setup. Mrs. Know-It-All and I work through a long list, spoilers included.
June 22, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who The Best Part One Since Early RTD
The Legend of Ruby Sunday is everything I'd want from a Russell T Davies penultimate episode, and it still pays for a season that didn't build up to it. Mrs. Know-It-All and I land a full point apart.
June 16, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who No Notes on the Most Doctor Who Episode of the Season
Rogue drops the Doctor and Ruby into a Bridgerton ball, hands the Doctor a bounty hunter to flirt with, and slips the Shalka Doctor into the lineup of faces. I said no notes, and I meant it.
June 10, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who Finally, an Episode That Feels Like Doctor Who
Dot and Bubble is a social media allegory that never once feels preachy, and its last scene is the moment I learned who Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor is.
June 2, 2024 →
7/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Brilliant Episode That Never Gives You an Ending
73 Yards has brilliant acting, a real mystery in Wales and a Doctor who vanishes in the first few minutes. Then it resolves itself with nothing, and I can't tell you what it was about.
May 25, 2024 →
6.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who Steven Moffat Forgot He Wasn't Writing for Matt Smith
Steven Moffat comes back to write Boom, and it plays like he's still writing for Matt Smith. A bottle episode on a landmine that preaches more than it moves, and the first miss of the season for me.
May 18, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who The Toymaker's Kid Steals Music, and Ruby Doesn't Add Up
The Devil's Chord is the first time this new era picks a villain back up, with Maestro arriving as the Toymaker's kid. It's groovy, it's fun, and a cosmic entity looks at Ruby and says something is very wrong.
May 13, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who The Babies Look Atrocious and That's When I Knew It Was Doctor Who
Space Babies is shiny, glossy and full of Disney money, and it still has talking babies, a bogeyman and a spaceship that farts. Mrs. Know-It-All and I both land on the same number.
May 12, 2024 →
Reviews Doctor Who Who's Your Favorite Doctor? Mrs. Know-It-All Picks David Tennant, I Pick Matt Smith
Mrs. Know-It-All pulled me in front of the camera to talk Doctor Who: where to find the Doctors before Tom Baker, the movie with Paul McGann, and why Matt Smith is my Doctor.
February 9, 2024 →
Reviews Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson Are Already Being Asked What Comes After Season Two
One Christmas special into the new run, both leads are getting cagey about life after their second season, and it's raising alarm bells. I'm excited, I'm not worried, and I don't think you should be either.
January 10, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa Sprints Into the TARDIS
The Christmas special is back where it belongs, Ncuti Gatwa feels at home as the Doctor from his first scene, and Mrs. Flood has the whole Know-It-All household guessing.
December 28, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Doctor Who Two Doctors, One Toymaker, and a Goodbye I Wasn't Ready For
The third 60th anniversary special brings back a villain from a lost 1960s story, splits the Doctor in two, and lets David Tennant's Doctor finally stop and go home. Spoilers for all of it.
December 10, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who Something So Bad the TARDIS Ran Away
The second 60th anniversary special is a two-actor bottle episode at the edge of the universe, and it's about as RTD as Doctor Who gets. Mrs. Know-It-All and I walk through all of it, spoilers included.
December 3, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who Tennant and Donna Come Back Like They Never Left
The first 60th anniversary special skips the new-Doctor warm-up, puts David Tennant and Donna back in the same room, and feels like a warm hug. Mrs. Know-It-All and I walk through all of it.
November 26, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who The Moment Eccleston's Doctor Becomes the Doctor Fully
Mrs. Know-It-All had never seen the Christopher Eccleston series, so we fixed that. Episode six puts the last Time Lord in a room with the last Dalek, and neither of them walks out the same.
February 5, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who I Was Wrong to Tell People to Skip Season One
World War Three lands the two-parter that Aliens of London started, with farting aliens, a jar of pickled onions and a fire sale on planet Earth. Mrs. Know-It-All and I both had a great time.
January 10, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who Rubber Suits, Forehead Zippers and a Cast That Commits
Aliens of London is about as campy as Doctor Who gets, with rubber suit monsters, our first look at UNIT and Harriet Jones. Mrs. Know-It-All and I talk through part one of the two-parter.
January 1, 2023 →
Reviews Doctor Who First Christmas, Part 11: A Warning
An original Doctor Who audio story. Herod finds the Time Lord he locked up leaning in his doorway, and learns how the Time War ended, before the Doctor gives him one warning about the child.
December 25, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who They Perfect Light
Amy runs from a mob through Bethlehem, Rory picks up her trail with the shepherds, and the Doctor finds out the star the three wise men are following is the TARDIS.
December 25, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who The First Noel
Amy runs from a mob straight into a stable in Bethlehem, Rory turns up with shepherds, and the Doctor rides in on a camel with two priests and a gift. Part 13 of First Christmas.
December 25, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who First Christmas, Part 14: Loose Ends
The Doctor holds the newborn in the stable, hears something only he can understand, and tells Amy and Rory who the child really is. The final chapter of my Doctor Who Christmas story.
December 25, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who First Christmas, Part 9: We Three Kings
Part 9 of First Christmas, a Doctor Who Christmas story by Mr. Know-It-All. Three priests wait on King Herod, and Balthazar finds a drawing of a man he just saw down the hall.
December 25, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who First Christmas, Part 8: Watching Over Their Flocks By Night
Part 8 of First Christmas, the Doctor Who Christmas story. Rory wakes up in a flock of sheep, meets four shepherds who don't much care for Romans, and looks up to find a light in the sky that's brighter than the moon.
December 25, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Christmas Episode the Way Die Hard Is a Christmas Movie
Charles Dickens, a funeral parlor in Cardiff in 1869, and the first real look at what the Time War cost somebody else. Mrs. Know-It-All and I rewatch Series 1, Episode 3, and we don't land on the same number.
December 18, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who Psychic Paper, Lady Cassandra, and a Doctor Fresh Out of the Time War
Mrs. Know-It-All has never seen the first season of the 2005 reboot, so we're watching it together. Episode 2 takes Rose five billion years out to watch the Earth burn, and it holds up better than I remembered.
December 11, 2022 →
The Files Doctor Who The Know-It-All Files
Somebody asked what happens if the Doctor goes up against Freddy Krueger or Michael Myers, so I wrote both episodes out loud. Plus what's wrong with the Doctor, the Jenny show I want, and the woman Doctor question again.
December 7, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who Mrs. Know-It-All Meets Christopher Eccleston's Doctor for the First Time
Mrs. Know-It-All had never seen the first season of the 2005 Doctor Who, so we went back to episode one. Bad CGI, a hot mess of a mom, a vial of anti-plastic, and a quieter Doctor than I remembered.
December 4, 2022 →
The Files Doctor Who An American Doctor, the Doctor's Wife, and Whether Q Survives the Time War
Eight Doctor Who questions, answered. Yes, an American could play the Doctor, and I know exactly how you'd do it. Plus River Song, Russell T Davies, the Q Continuum and why the TARDIS keeps redecorating.
December 2, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who Why the Doctor Can't Go Back for Amy and Rory, and Seven More Doctor Who Questions
Eight Doctor Who questions pulled from Quora and Reddit, answered in one sitting: Amy and Rory, Russell T Davies coming back, a Harlan Ellison episode, the first Black Doctor, and why the Doctor ran from Captain Jack.
November 23, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who Russell T Davies' Master Plan, and Why I'm Not Scared of the Mouse
Doctor Who is moving to Disney+ in the United States, and I'm not taking it the way everybody else is. Russell T Davies said out loud in 2021 that he wanted an empire, and he's the one guy who can build it.
November 2, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who I Wish This Level of Writing Had Gone Into Everything
The Power of the Doctor hit on all cylinders for me, the companion support group was a chef's kiss, and then David Tennant walked out of that regeneration. Here's my theory on how Donna gets us to Ncuti Gatwa.
October 28, 2022 →