Who Cares? - Dr. Who Fans Talk TV
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Who Cares? - Dr. Who Fans Talk TV
Discussions about Doctor Who, its three showrunners, and more! Notes, sources, and YouTube versions linked at www.whocares.fun
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Wish World 🦴 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
Character-lite episodes. Penultimate suspense. Companion characterisation. Gods and science. Was this episode worthy of a wish?
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The Well 🕛 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
'The kind of episode you should never do a sequel to'. Continuing mining, drama avoidance, gun storytelling, script development…was The Well a diamond...
The Story & the Engine 🕷 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
New storytelling, ghostwriter mythos, dialogue density, clipshow climaxes, different approaches to gods...how does The Story & the Engine do Doctor Wh...
Lucky Day 🚁 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
UNIT politics, grifting, didactic Doctor, conspiracy confusion, youth movements, valuing the ordinary, conventional heroism...who is Lucky Day's audie...
The Interstellar Song Contest 🎤 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
Torture, honey, morality, physicality, camp, regression, edginess… there’s lots to discuss in Juno Dawson’s Eurovision episode of the 2025 season of D...
Lux 🌕 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
Pantheon rules, companion dynamics, rhymes with the past, fandom commentary, liminal nights, aesthetic choices, dodgy lyrics — we discuss all that, &...
The Robot Revolution 🤖 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
The #GetBelindaHome arc, companion dynamics, new aesthetics, mechanical pathos, and the looming future of the show — we discuss that, and much more, i...
Season 1 (2024) Reflection 💎 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1
How did characters develop in the 2024 season? Promises of novelty, universe expansions and contractions, character conflict, audience relationships,...
Joy to the World ✨ Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Christmas 2024
Digital ghosts, emotional logic, character regression, James Bond, four-point stars — how does Steven Moffat's fiftieth episode of Doctor Who hold up?...
Douglas Is Cancelled ❌ Discussion & Review Podcast | Steven Moffat TV
Moral misdirection, cancel culture, perspective shifts, ‘male feminism’, weaponised incompetence, theatrical pacing, generational differences, interlo...
Empire of Death ⌛ Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1
Investing significance. RTD finales. Whistles. Ropes. Spoons. Dogs. What story did the finale tell?
(00:00:00) Preserving 73 Yards’ myste...
The Legend of Ruby Sunday 📼 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1
Content generation. Penultimate pacing. Spoiler culture. Characters arcs & mystery boxes. Villain visuals. Time Window meanings. What story does this...
Rogue 🦉 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1
New writers! What's that like? Evoking past eras, generational nostalgia, romance pacing, valorising tradition, iconic characters, 'real Doctor Who',...
Dot and Bubble 🐌 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1
Is this an unprecedented kind of story? What does the ending say, & what does it avoid saying? How well does the Doctor-lite majority of the episode w...
73 Yards 🌊 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1
Does 73 Yards present a new RTD approach, uncluttered from the old? Does nightmare logic suit the show? What do we project onto the episode’s mysterie...
Boom 💣 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1
How does Boom measure up to past Moffat episodes? What’s confronted, and what’s evaded, in the story? What does the episode say about faith, AI, fathe...
The Devil’s Chord 🎹 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1
What's new and different about the RTD2 approach? What does a post-Giggle Doctor Who look like? When is a chord not a chord? What does a 'twist at the...
Space Babies 👶 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1
How is this era being differentiated from those prior? How is music telling the story? What’s new about this Doctor’s characterisation? What’s familia...
The Church on Ruby Road ⛪ Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1
How has RTD relaunched Doctor Who? How has he remixed and rejigged the previous eras of the show? How to sell the magic of Who? How do the aesthetics...
The Giggle ✂️ Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary
Was the regeneration satisfying? What’s a Doctorverse? How is the show reorienting to fantasy? Why do people feel so differently about the bigeneratio...
The Runaway Bride 👰 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Christmas Specials
Doctor-Donna genesis, lyrical lovesickness, character regressions, vindictive villainy, musical escalation, Racnoss drowning, Christmas imagery & more...
Wild Blue Yonder 🍎 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary
Anniversary expectations, aesthetic foundations, timeless parallels, equine verisimilitude, character servicing & more are explored in a discussion ab...
The Celestial Toymaker 🧩 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Hartnell Era
Maker of Toys. Recasting actors. Character crossovers. Chaotic rewrites. Scuppered returns. Script archaeology. Fandom reassessments. The 1966 Toymake...
The Star Beast (2023) 🦗 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary
RTD’s second reign begins. New characterisations, layered resolutions, focal perspectives, conversations with other eras, new & old aesthetics, physic...
‘Not A Comedy Skit’: Unleashing Davros Discourse | Doctor Who Discussion Podcast
What divides comedy and sincerity? When is a skit not a skit? How did Destination: Skaro lead to fandom crossing wires? Why did the 14th Doctor's era...
An Unearthly Child 🔥 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Hartnell Era
Fire, technology, and knowledge beyond understanding. Horror, humanity, and forming a tribe. Imagination, magic, and metaphors for TV. We discuss the...
The Star Beast (1980) 🐹 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who Comics
Meep! Meep! Why has this comic persisted through the decades? How did Beep the Meep and the Wrarth Warriors make their impact on Doctor Who? What make...
Dark Season: Legacy Rising 🏫 Discussion & Review Podcast | Russell T Davies Audio Drama
We discuss the audio follow-up to the first TV show from Russell T Davies! Prestigious returns, technology & mysticism, shifting formats, generational...
Ryan’s Dyspraxia
A deep dive into Ryan Sinclair and disability representation. What is dyspraxia? How was Ryan’s dyspraxia depicted in Doctor Who? How should represent...
The Tsuranga Conundrum 🩺 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Series 11
Hope. Fatherhood. Pting. The midpoint of series 11 is where the era well and truly solidified. What did this episode present us with? Where did the id...
Great Expectations (2023) 💰 Discussion & Review Podcast | Steven Knight TV
Steven Knight's incredibly interesting adaptation of the 1860s novel raises questions of society's relationship with Charles Dickens, revising endings...
Rosa 🌹 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Series 11
What does this episode say about history, civil rights, education, revolution, pacifism, complicity, the law, and race? What did the fandom and press...
Chibnall’s Era: The Commentaries, Part 6 — Convention | Doctor Who Podcast
What defined the Chibnall era? How did fandom process the era? How is the era being reassessed? How did those behind the era see it when they first be...
Q&A Part 3 ✉️ Futures, Factions, & Franchises
What's the future of the franchise? What sort of Doctor Who esoterica is out there? Could Doctor Who work as an animated show? How do our nationalitie...
‘It Felt Like Coming Home’: Music & Mayhem | Doctor Who Discussion Podcast
Why did Murray Gold return as Doctor Who's composer? How did RTD2's first directors approach the 60th anniversary specials? What does the ready unveil...
Q&A Part 2 ✉️ Origins, Formats, & Regenerations
How should regeneration be handled? What’s special about the TV format? What can Doctor Who never change? How should RTD2 handle companions? We answer...
The Unfriend 💔 Discussion & Review Podcast | Steven Moffat Theatre
Murder, repression, escapism, Britishness, politics — lots is at play in Steven Moffat's play the Unfriend. We discuss the play itself (including the...
Q&A Part 1 ✉ Favourites, Narratives, & RTD2
What's the appeal of Doctor Who? What makes a favourite episode? What's intended in Hell Bent? What's in a good spinoff? We answer our Q&A questions f...
Ask Us Anything! ✉️ Q&A Announcement
Questions. Queries. Quizzes about the Qurunx. Do you have any? We'd love to hear them!
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Luther: The Fallen Sun 🌞 Discussion & Review Podcast | Neil Cross TV
Luther moves into film in The Fallen Sun. What does that format bring to the series? How does the paratext of James Bond Idris Elba fancasting play in...