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Review: Doctor Who – 7×1 – Asylum of the Daleks
In the UK: Saturday, 7.20pm, BBC1
In the US: Saturday, 9/8c, BBC America
Well, here we are again, happy as can be. Doctor Who is back. The Daleks are back. The Ponds are back (although not for long). Steven Moffat is back. Chris Chibnall is back.
Oh.
But not till next week! Phew.
Murray Gold is back.
Oh. Well, there’s no getting round that one.
Consolation prize: new companion Jenna-Louise Coleman is here!
Hang on, wasn’t she supposed to not be here yet? Oh well, bonus for everyone.
It’s back, basically. Brace yourself for an action-packed first episode, with all the stops pulled out – Daleks firing, Doctors running. You know the form.
Except… rather than an action-packed, all guns blazing intro, our Stevie decided to launch the all-new “that Doctor – he’s not famous, he’s dead and everyone knows it” series with a decidedly low-key, creepy, adult affair that hinges on soufflé. Yes it does.
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