‘Doctor Who’ TV Review: New Season Sees New Time Lord, New Disney Partnership, The Beatles & A Lot Of Joy In The Tardis
deadline.comDisney and the BBC really don’t want any spoilers revealed for today’s debut of the latest season of Doctor Who. Fair enough, but I’m here to tell you that you will hear some of the worst music ever in these opening episodes of Ncuti Gatwa’s hopefully long run as the famed Time Lord.
Crossing timelines and absent granddaughters aside, that’s the point. Since Rwandan-born Gatwa’s debut in December last year, his Doctor Who has already flipped a lot of scripts on what the Tardis travelling Doctor is and should be.
Yes, the Fifteenth Doctor is the first Black and the first openly Queer incarnation of the Gallifreyan since the iconic British series debuted in 1963, as well as the first person not born in the UK to play the Time Lord Both those representations are long overdue and wonderful, but the real thing about this Doctor Who is how much joy it exudes.
That effervescent point is made clear in the (kinda) Beatles co-starring “Devil’s Chord,” one of two episodes that will drop on Disney+ on May 10 at 4 p.m.
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