Showrunner Russell T Davies and writer Jane Espenson have come in for quite a bit of criticism for this series and virtually all of it is warranted, in our opinion. Whether it was far too many scenes – and even entire episodes – that turned out to be nothing but filler; characters...

It said something good about this episode (to us, at least) that we felt, for the first time in about 5 episodes, that we absolutely had to sit down and watch it a second time before even attempting to put together our thoughts. Having watched it a second time now, we’re having almost...

Wait. What? Rex was something-something Torchwood undercover something-something? It was all a ploy to flush Wayne Knight out? What? And now everyone’s taking orders from Q? And Kira Nerys is dead? Are we supposed to care about all this? Because at this point, it feels like the creators...

Dammit. We hoped we could get through these reviews without getting too far into the weeds of Doctor Who continuity because we assumed the show, in search of a larger American audience, would have offered just enough backstory on Jack and Torchwood without going too far into the whys and...

We’ll give the creators credit: when they spin their wheels, you can’t always tell. Last week’s episode ended with Vera dead; Rex and Esther stuck inside the San Pedro overflow camp, and Gwen and Rhys inside the Wales overflow camp, trying to get her father out. Forty-five...

We have to laugh. We realize we shouldn’t be laughing about the grimmest episode yet, ending with the (it was bound to happen eventually) gruesome death of a Torchwood team member, but we can’t help it. Sometimes, the silliness of the conceits we’re supposed to accept in...

A weekend guest coupled with a Macbook meltdown forced this review back a couple of days, for which we apologize, minions. About halfway through this episode, we sighed and whined as one, “Where are the aliens?” We indicated last week that the need for filler in a ten-hour story...

Before one episode aired, we had two worries about this series. Unfortunately, this episode confirmed both of them. We were concerned that ten episodes was too long a format for one story and we were also concerned that when it came time to stretch things out a bit, they’d fall back...

Ah, there’s the Torchwood we remember. Not that we were complaining about it being missing, but the somewhat wacky hijinks of the original Torchwood crew got lost in a rash of character deaths and the decision to take the franchise in a totally different direction with Children of...

Here’s an interesting dilemma for a blogger: How do you write about this show on a weekly basis? And make no mistake, after that tense, explosive (literally), and just plain fun opening episode, we have every intention of writing about this show every week. But here’s what: This...