I Don’t Know How to Talk About This Episode of ‘Doctor Who’ Without Losing My Mind

A lot happened on this week’s Doctor Who. It feels almost impossible to articulate just how much all that “how much” was—and how much of it was questionable at best, and perhaps wildly poorly thought out at worst—without just vomiting a quick, high-concept summation of what happens in “The Interstellar Song Contest.” There is a Eurovision Song Contest But In Space, hosted by a TV host almost 100% of audiences outside of the UK are going to be baffled at the Doctor and Belinda’s obsession with, and a cat lady who speaks French. One hundred thousand people are graphically sucked into space. They’re fine. An incredibly fraught “what if both sides maybe made some mistakes” allegory about a fictional genocide plays out in an episode that is broadcasting, intentionally, the same night of the actual 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, a cultural event that has faced two consecutive years of protests and controversy over the participation of Israel, a country in the process of conducting a genocida ... Read full article.