George Chrysostomou on five character who deserve a ‘young’ TV spinoff…With the release and success of CBS’s Young Sheldon and other similar properties, such as FOX’s Gotham, it is perhaps the beginning of a trend that we shall see more often. Taking a character back to their childhood is usually reserved for the odd flashback, where details […]
Class Season 1 Episode 8 Review – ‘The Lost’
Alex Moreland reviews the eighth and final episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class…Look at you, in your little circle. Pretending to be heroes and never expecting to pay a price.‘The Lost’ proves to be a disappointing finale to Class – one that, ultimately, is unable to deliver upon the promise of the series as […]
Class Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did’
Alex Moreland reviews the seventh episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class…At some point today, should everything go according to plan, there will come a moment… when you start to believe.This episode is interesting primarily because of how different it is from the average episode of Class.Consider the difference between this episode and the last; […]
Class Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Detained’
Alex Moreland reviews the sixth episode of Class…The truth came clear and had to be said.Nothing about this episode should work.It’s a bottle episode, restricted to one setting, and relies on the fairly simplistic, even cliché, premise of the gang being put in detention. The central conceit – a rock that prompts the characters to […]
Class Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Brave-ish Heart’
With Doctor Who spinoff Class returning for a BBC One airing, Alex Moreland continues his reviews of this YA hit…When your entire people are being killed before your very eyes, then you can talk to me about monsters!In many ways, this is a chessboard episode; it feels almost like a perfunctory piece, dedicated more to establishing […]
Class Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart’
Alex Moreland reviews the fourth episode of Class, ‘Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart’…“You remember what I told you, about being at war with myself? I’m losing.”Once again, Doctor Who forms a useful counterpart to contrast Class against, as we have our first two-part story of the series – interestingly, it’s exactly halfway through the series, […]
Class Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Nightvisiting’
Alex Moreland reviews the third episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class…“I’m not made of glass.”This week’s episode of Class touches on a theme that was in fact dealt with extensively during Doctor Who’s last season: grief. It’s a common theme in sci-fi, and the aforementioned Doctor Who episode ‘Hell Bent’ was widely regarded as […]
Class Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo’
Alex Moreland reviews the second episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class…“When did you know when you were ready to talk?”One of the advantages that Class has over Doctor Who is its ability to explore consequences. Following ‘For Tonight We Might Die’, Class continues the story of Coal Hill – where Doctor Who would have […]
Class Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘For Tonight We Might Die’
Alex Moreland reviews the first episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class…“You can’t seriously expect these juveniles to deal with whatever’s going to come through these tears in space and time?!”Class starts as any typical Doctor Who episode might: someone’s running from a monster in a darkened corridor. In beginning this way, there’s a clear […]
Doctor Who spinoff Class gets premiere date, guest appearance from Peter Capaldi
The BBC has announced that its upcoming Doctor Who spinoff Class will premiere on BBC Three online next month, with the first two episodes arriving on October 22nd. And that’s not all, as it’s also been announced that Peter Capaldi will make an appearance as the Twelfth Doctor in the opening episode, titled ‘For Tonight […]
