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Season 12
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2.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 147 Ratings

User score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 9 out of 147
  3. Negative: 105 out of 147
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  1. lulu2480
    Jan 2, 2020
    1
    Apart Stephen Fry, it's full of .... nothing. Everyday life is already difficult I wanted escapism at least when at home, not to be lectured or indoctrinated,
  2. Mikeuk81
    Jan 4, 2020
    2
    Time has run out on the current doctor, what was once essential viewing is now boring. The current Doctor is far removed moved from the acting quality of the four previous modern incarnations. Time to let the show rest for a while.
  3. Davros1010
    Jan 20, 2020
    0
    Absolute rubbish!!! This is cosplay Dr Who for 3 year olds!! Awful stuff! Please go Jodie!!!
  4. BeatsMeanzHighs
    Jan 21, 2020
    1
    Yet again the latest season of Doctor Who has been hijacked by agenda. There are reviewers who insist that people who review the show negatively are doing so merely because the BBC arbitrarily changed the sex of a character that had been male for over 50 years. Well if there are such people they are more than entitled to this view and it is a reasonable complaint. But the truth of theYet again the latest season of Doctor Who has been hijacked by agenda. There are reviewers who insist that people who review the show negatively are doing so merely because the BBC arbitrarily changed the sex of a character that had been male for over 50 years. Well if there are such people they are more than entitled to this view and it is a reasonable complaint. But the truth of the matter is that the gender swap is one of a multitude of reasons why fans detest what has happened to the longest running sci-fi show on British TV. The weak story writing that abandons plot in favour of agenda, the lead actor's inability to understand who the Doctor is and how to portray the part, the uninspiring companions and a general disdain for what has come before in the show all add up to a terrible viewing experience. Each viewer will have their own pet hate when it comes to this show, but for me it's the sheer ham-fisted nature of the preaching and the social justice moralising that is the most tiresome. The show used to do some allegory in the classic era, but that has been replaced with ramming the latest message home with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. What a shame the BBC got hijacked by the social justice cult, and in turn allowed their once prestigious reputation turn into utter garbage.… Expand
  5. Kinsi
    Jan 24, 2020
    0
    I loved season 1-10 but sorry.. This is just not doctor who anymore.. It's not cause it's a female doctor.. But everything else. Story, characters, settings.. I really really hope it will be better some time soon.. But there need to be extremely drastic changes again for that.
  6. Neutrobyte
    Jan 26, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Alright Chibnall, NOW you've officially gone TOO far! Forced diversity and Agenda Politics are one thing, but ret-conning canon laid down by Sidney, Raj, Verity and others, back in 1963 is another! The newest episode is like a ret-con BOMB, exploding and rewriting SO many things for the WORSE! Having the Tardis be a Police Box before the Chameleon Circuit got stuck in Totters Lane? NOPE, sorry! Having a Chameleon Arch before the Tennant Era and the Human Nature novel? NOPE, Sorry! Having the ?th Doctor being darker and nastier than any other incarnation, AND not know ANYTHING about the other 14 (I count John Hurt) incarnations? NOPE, Sorry! Having the ?th Doctor have been a Renegade before HE left, with HIS Granddaughter and stole the Tardis (and the Tardis stole him)? NOPE, sorry! Having the ?th Doctor "hate" guns, and yet own a rifle that she deliberately booby-traps so that it will kill ANYONE (not just her previous Time Lord colleague), and then not bat an eye when it killed someone? NOPE, sorry! And WORST of all, I actually "liked" seeing Captain Jack Harkness back, played exactly the way he always was. You have RUINED Doctor Who Chibnall! And you won't even LISTEN to ANY of the criticism that is piling up outside yours, and the BBC's doors.… Expand
  7. SilverEagle89
    Feb 3, 2020
    4
    Doctor Who continues running...but where? That’s the real question. The amount of talent on the show gets dragged down by the writing. Something just doesn’t click as in previous incarnations.
  8. matt360
    Mar 3, 2020
    0
    I remember last season being hopeful about the 13th Doctor, but any potential has been completely ruined by an awful showrunner. Chris Chibnall seems to hate the franchise and wants to see it destroyed, I can't think of any other reason to how this series got so bad.

    Jodie Whitaker could be a great Doctor but she's given nothing to do. The finale has ruined the series lore beyond    I remember last season being hopeful about the 13th Doctor, but any potential has been completely ruined by an awful showrunner. Chris Chibnall seems to hate the franchise and wants to see it destroyed, I can't think of any other reason to how this series got so bad.

    Jodie Whitaker could be a great Doctor but she's given nothing to do.

    The finale has ruined the series lore beyond recovery, the only way forward is to retcon this season and get a new showrunner.    … Expand
  9. Fredolives
    Feb 4, 2020
    0
    Dr Who used to be great. Emphasis on used to. The last couple seasons have been a perfect example of what not to do in making an entertaining tv show.
  10. Mcgregor
    Feb 6, 2020
    0
    Doctor Grievance study's has done it's last dash for me, sick to the eyeballs of these 'woke' lectures in entertainment.. Bye Professor complaints I quit you.
  11. Kymar4
    Mar 3, 2020
    0
    Это отвратительно, сериал превратился из околонаучной фантастики в модное говнище для нетрадиционных людей. Это просто кусок толерантности, скажите этим даунам что они сериалом ошиблись и это никто видеть не хочет. Смените уже шоураннера, он бездарен и пресенЭто отвратительно, сериал превратился из околонаучной фантастики в модное говнище для нетрадиционных людей. Это просто кусок толерантности, скажите этим даунам что они сериалом ошиблись и это никто видеть не хочет. Смените уже шоураннера, он бездарен и пресен
  12. Sabrus
    Mar 7, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Best part of this season Is Capt Jack making an appearance.. Just beings you back to when the show had decent writers and a decent DR… Expand
  13. The_Batman
    Jun 3, 2020
    1
    It was my favorite TV show. WAS..... After so many years they just destroyed the Doctor. RIP
    Jodie is great, but the plot is an absolute garbage
  14. DrJohnSmith
    Jul 13, 2020
    1
    I am a lifelong fan of Doctor Who (40 years of watching). I grew up watching episodes and celebrated every regeneration. I suffered through the dark times of script writing (Colin Baker's unfortunate years), the show's cancelation, and eventualy rejoiced at its return. The 50th anniversary was absolutely wonderful. Now this... I watched in horror as it devolved into a pointless, soullessI am a lifelong fan of Doctor Who (40 years of watching). I grew up watching episodes and celebrated every regeneration. I suffered through the dark times of script writing (Colin Baker's unfortunate years), the show's cancelation, and eventualy rejoiced at its return. The 50th anniversary was absolutely wonderful. Now this... I watched in horror as it devolved into a pointless, soulless series of random chases culminating in the utter butchery of the entire canon. I wish my Doctor could go back in time and provide Whittaker the story, tone, and depth this character's legacy deserves. This abysmal writing is a mockery to these actors and this once beloved series. I am devastated.… Expand
  15. mag07
    Jul 3, 2020
    0
    Embarassing to watch. 50 years of legacy murdered with dreadful, uninspired and emotionless writing. It's time to take a break BBC.
  16. dramaticwords
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    Too preachy. Too many weak stories. And an ending that ruins the Time Lords and rewrites the Doctor's history badly.
  17. BronzeCentipede
    Dec 7, 2020
    0
    This is Doctor Who made by people who hate Doctor Who. There's no love of or interest in the history or mythos of the show. Nor is there any interest in the idea of exploring time and space, or of entertaining the viewer. Instead, we get ham-fisted messages.
  18. Shrik3
    Aug 15, 2020
    2
    I'm not a big Doctor Who fan but I love a bit of Sci-fi. The semi encapsulated format has always meant that there have been bad episodes and good IMO. This however is awful, the lead actress can act I have seen her in a previous drama but the role of playing a retarded Doctor is something I doubt De Niro could pull off. The decision to make the companions a family, the younger of whom areI'm not a big Doctor Who fan but I love a bit of Sci-fi. The semi encapsulated format has always meant that there have been bad episodes and good IMO. This however is awful, the lead actress can act I have seen her in a previous drama but the role of playing a retarded Doctor is something I doubt De Niro could pull off. The decision to make the companions a family, the younger of whom are completely without any depth is awful and the writing and story is terrible. I don't watch it anymore. Shame.… Expand
  19. Thatbro92
    Jun 2, 2020
    0
    The BBC has ruined this show and has doomed the series to another hiatus in the name of social justice.
  20. lucorp
    Dec 12, 2020
    0
    Boring, unappealing, shallow. Made me to stop watching one of my favourite TV shows.
  21. greenisgood
    Jan 22, 2020
    2
    TL;DR - Please Stop !!! Stop driving the show into obscurity. I wrote about the last season, was one of my first reviews onsite since frankly it broke me, so I'm gonna keep this short.
    It is as though the Companions Walsh, Cole and Gill along with Jodie are standing on shiny Metal platforms which is an allegory for their efforts and attempts to make the best of the material, surrounded by    TL;DR - Please Stop !!! Stop driving the show into obscurity. I wrote about the last season, was one of my first reviews onsite since frankly it broke me, so I'm gonna keep this short.
    It is as though the Companions Walsh, Cole and Gill along with Jodie are standing on shiny Metal platforms which is an allegory for their efforts and attempts to make the best of the material, surrounded by heaps of garbage and decomposing waste which is an allegory for the Story Writing and Dialogue Writing. As much as I want to pay attention to the leads and like them I cannot stop retching and gagging at the Stink and Filth of the writing thereby making the effort the actors are putting in mean nothing.
    I wish they would follow Henry Cavill's suit and disconnect themselves from a clear Train-Wreck.    … Expand
  22. LoveMoira89
    Jan 15, 2020
    0
    I would like to appeal to the scriptwriters, directors and show runners of the last restart of the Doctor:

    What can you offer the viewer besides the "rich" international caste and the "beautiful" pictures of picturesque nature Maybe a well-written plot? There is no less water in the plot than in my graduation work Just a series about nothing, like in past and in past and past    I would like to appeal to the scriptwriters, directors and show runners of the last restart of the Doctor:

    What can you offer the viewer besides the "rich" international caste and the "beautiful" pictures of picturesque nature

    Maybe a well-written plot?

    There is no less water in the plot than in my graduation work
    Just a series about nothing, like in past and in past and past series
    Global history neither moves nor stagnates: it simply exists separately from screenwriters and characters

    "
    Again, the kids play detectives in the backyard while the grown uncles of Moffat are busy with other decent TV shows.
    "

    The actors' play still looks like a children's production

    “If it weren’t for these annoying kids, I would have succeeded” is a phrase from the Scooby Doo animated serie or a Doctor Who's reboot?

    It’s just I don’t even want to watch
    So bad that not only do you not want to review the series again
    Well, it was necessary to remove it so that I didn’t want to watch at all ..

    I liked the old Doctors for a good quality story, the play of actors and the emotions that each new series gave me

    Reboot showed me none of this..    … Expand
  23. Quadrapole
    Jan 29, 2020
    0
    Absolute SJW garbage. Too much stunning and bravery with the new doctor who. save your time and rewatch the old ones instead.
  24. Krakadon
    Mar 1, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Garbage. Season 12 is better than Season 11 but that ain't sayin' much. I can't wait for Chibnall & company to go. They can't write or produce Doctor Who for crap and have no regard for the history of the show either. I just watched the Series finale and it was so bad with so many plot holes it was pitiful. Where to even begin? Cybermen can't shoot someone standing right in front of them? Gallifrey is destroyed again? The Master can just outsmart and kill all living Time Lords? The Companion's can just slip onto the giant Cybermen ship filled with 1,000's of Cybermen undetected, find all the right spots around the engine, plant explosives, then instantly get off when the bombs explode prematurely? The Doctor can just run away at the last second and no one even tries to stop her? The Time Lords just stumbled upon regeneration from some random dimension, not from their own brilliance as the oldest intelligent race? And the person who figured it out just happens to be the first space explorer, not some team of 100 biologists working on it for years? And the Doctor is now the Messiah of the Time Lords from whom all regenerations descended? The Jadoon are now the umpteenth people to do the "impossible" and get into the TARDIS? I could go on and on but I already wasted my time watching the show. Why waste more time talking about it? Honestly, I just hope it doesn't get cancelled so at least we have a change of putting this horrible period behind us. BTW, my negative review has nothing to do with Jody, so don't play the gender card with me.… Expand
  25. joshsevers
    Feb 19, 2020
    1
    Each episode gets progressively worse. It's as though the writers of season 12 are ignoring all the lore that has come before and are just writing about whatever popular social topic is trending. Look, I'm not suggesting that diversity and climate change are not important topics, but shoehorning it in at every single possible moment just feels tacky. In addition, the screenplay feels likeEach episode gets progressively worse. It's as though the writers of season 12 are ignoring all the lore that has come before and are just writing about whatever popular social topic is trending. Look, I'm not suggesting that diversity and climate change are not important topics, but shoehorning it in at every single possible moment just feels tacky. In addition, the screenplay feels like a high school group project. Maybe my enjoyment of CinemaSins has jaded me, but the plot and how it's carried out are excessively weak and nonsensical. I'm not an expert at film / TV critique, but even to me, it's plain that the writers / screenplay-ers of season 12 are phoning it in hardcore. I hope it gets better, because in my opinion the legacy of Doctor Who deserves better than this.… Expand
  26. JKF3
    Jan 10, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Very disappointing needs to be regenerated in to the old style Do not like this Doctor .… Expand
  27. Goreminister
    Jan 17, 2020
    0
    I don´t want to be "educated" by some PC people, I want to be entertained. How hard is that? Well, seems to be hard, but there you are. I´m out and I guess everyone who likes GOOD storytelling is out aswell. It was a nice time. Farewell Dr. Who.
  28. Necrosis99
    Jan 16, 2020
    0
    Get rid of every writer on this show and hire someone than can write character development! there is no character development and so far every story is just copy/pasted from Tennant/Smith era.
  29. ManRammer
    Mar 5, 2020
    0
    The new Doctor is just.. awful. The writing has sunk this ship for me. The season finale just kills the franchise by defining what all previous writers have tried to avoid
  30. ShaMana
    Jan 14, 2020
    5
    Title: Three is a crowd Description: The latest adventures of our beloved doctor are hindered by uneven writing and uninspired sequences of events. The last three episodes showed a glimpse of what it could have been but sadly falls flat not long after the start. Enemies are inventive and mysterious but the plot doesn't use them well. They are nothing more than scarecrows with close to noTitle: Three is a crowd Description: The latest adventures of our beloved doctor are hindered by uneven writing and uninspired sequences of events. The last three episodes showed a glimpse of what it could have been but sadly falls flat not long after the start. Enemies are inventive and mysterious but the plot doesn't use them well. They are nothing more than scarecrows with close to no personality or emotion and that's not the show we enjoyed before. The three companions don't really help the situation, they have their personalities but are in the end extremely linear and not well developed. Removing them, sadly wouldn't cause any issues for the show considering their lack of investment except the need to be constantly rescued. And the plots, they move at a breakneck pace towards nowhere. Events occur without reason and on occasion, there is barely any connection between two scenes (in one, everyone is in danger, they do something stupid that should never work, they are not even shown to escape and the next scene everyone is fine and no one talks about it ever again)

    Sadly it's not the actor's fault. Jodie Whitaker is fantastic. Very energetic and able to portray emotions appropriate for her interpretation of the doctor (Peter Capaldi was really bad in figuring out what kind of doctor he wanted to be for example). Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill are good actors playing boring characters. Tosin Cole, on the other hand, has some spark to be a counterpoint of the new energetic doctor but is very underutilized in the end.

    Overall, Doctor Who has become a very mediocre show and uninspired writing can be faulted for it. Production values are really good, actors do their tasks well but in the end, it falls down to bad events and occurrences. Gone are the days of clever tiny details spread across 40 minutes or more to be picked and amazed at... it's CG and atmospheric music time.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Ed Power
    Jan 3, 2020
    80
    As with the latest Doctor’s debut series in 2018, the chemistry between the four leads is what drives the new Who, with Whittaker excelling as the perpetual motion human gyroscope at the centre of the chaos. Everything duly pelts along.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Jan 2, 2020
    80
    “Spyfall” — a two-part episode that concludes Sunday, when the show takes up its regular time slot — comes on strong. ... It’s fun, often funny and action-packed, which is not to say things don’t get a little heavy by the first hour’s cliffhanger end.
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  3. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jan 2, 2020
    80
    This first new hour bursts with the confident energy of Chibnall, Whittaker, and the writers entering an era in which Thirteen’s feels less constrained and freer to, in her words, get on with the job. ... And it is incredibly fun to watch.
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