Doctor Who‘s Animated Adventure Fell a Little Flat

Doctor Who‘s had a bigger budget in the last few years than it’s arguably ever had thanks to the BBC’s team-up with Disney, and with that has come the capacity for some really big ideas delivered with a glitz and glam the show could only otherwise have dreamed of. This week, “Lux” sees an incredible Doctor Who idea that could arguably only be best executed with this kind of financial backing… so it’s unfortunate that that idea is heaped under a wild tonal mess. “Lux” is largely set in 1952 Miami, where the Doctor and his reluctant companion Belinda find themselves shunted to when the Doctor tries to find a way around the TARDIS’ unwillingness to return to contemporary Earth. Of course, as with any good Doctor Who story, their arrival is conveniently timed: they land right on the doorstep of a locked up cinema, a location where a group of moviegoers mysteriously vanished months prior, amid claims that the cinema is now haunted as its caretaker still plays the movies every night. Befor ... Read full article.