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2MTL pops up its head like a prairie dog to weigh in on “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” and the end of the Wilderness Year, then retreats back into its burrow. But watch this space for news of a potential new podcasting project…

2MTL may or may not return with the new season of Doctor Who, but I couldn’t say goodbye without tipping my hat to the community of fans and podcasters that gave my life meaning during rough times and encouraged my creativity. What better way to do that, than by rerunning The Ood Cast’s classic every-podcaster-and-the-kitchen-sink parody from Series 6 , “Always Look on the Bright...

One last Throwback Review before 2MTL falls into a black hole: “The Impossible Planet” is great for exactly the reason I missed. (NOTE: The ending of the podcast is an intentional nod…)

It’s been a while since we did a Throwback Review, so let’s look back at Mark Gatiss’s second episode of New Who, which feel surprisingly like a mashup of the classic series and 1966’s Batman TV show.

Alyssa, author of the Whovian Feminism blog (whovianfeminism.tumblr.com), wrote an essay called “ A Love Letter to My Problematic Favs .” In it, she said: I try to let myself love my favorite characters as much as I can, even when they can sometimes make me so uncomfortable I can’t bear to watch them onscreen. I try to defend them against criticism I think is unfair (after all, female...

Is it “entitlement” to advocate for change in the media you consume? Are you a bad fan, or even a bully, if you want to see something different in Doctor Who? Maybe there’s a difference between having an opinion on the internet and being a threat. Maybe we can do something about the latter without trying to shame the former.

Peoples of the Universe, please attend carefully.

Let’s get this right out of the way: Big Finish’s “Technophobia” is a triumphant return for the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble, almost as though Tennant and Tate never left. And that weirded me the heck out.

The news last week wasn’t so much “news” as “tantalizing or terrifying hints of what might be in Doctor Who’s future,” including a possible writers room experiment and yet more machinations against the BBC itself .

Pearl Mackie is the new companion, Bill, introduced during a really big football game. I like what I see–both in the companion, and in the way the BBC brought her to us.

The BBC’s press announcement of its Doctor Who spinoff Class ‘s cast–and more crucially its concept and plot hints–draws Chip out of his hiatus…

At long last, 2MTL’s interview from the Long Island Who stage with Noel Clarke in November 2015. Noel talks about his career outside Doctor Who , including his comic The Troop  from Titan Comics  and his upcoming film Brotherhood , as well as his evolution from “buffoon” to “badass” as Mickey Smith.

Recorded at Long Island Who in November 2015, here’s Strax himself: Dan Starkey ! Dan talks about his journey from murderous soldier in “The Sontaran Stratagem” to the medical hero we have come to know and love and fear.

Mikayla , one of the hosts of The Web of Queer  ( Twitter ), provides a great guest commentary (clocking in at an increasingly rare ACTUAL TWO MINUTES) about what you may be inadvertently communicating when you discuss whether the Doctor is, or should be, asexual or aromantic.

Today the news broke that Steven Moffat’s next series will be his last, and that Chris Chibnall is waiting in the wings…

The Management would like to apologize for the delay in this review. There was a holiday thing. Speaking of holiday things, how about the last Christmas special?

Thanks to the holidays, this huge  Time Dilation edition of the podcast was almost literally  404. Thanks so much to Kyle Anderson and Erik Stadnik of Doctor Who: The Writers’ Room  for joining me for an in-depth (believe me, once they get wound up about “Sleep No More”…) examination of Series 9. This podcast was recorded before “The Husbands of River Song” aire...

Series 9 is over, and with it is Chip’s fidelity to his podcast format: It’s time for a series of longer Time Dilation episodes! First up, the first of two year-in-review episodes, this time with NPR’s Petra Meyer and Hockey Feels co-host Rachel Donner.

Chip gets reflective as Doctor Who Series 9’s year-long meditation on the dangers of emotional attachment comes to a close.

After millions of years of chipping away at a diamond wall, getting zapped by a creature from nightmares, and crawling to a teleporter to restart the cycle, I’ve released a podcast about “Heaven Sent.”

The 400th episode of 2MTL coincides with the swan song of one Clara Oswald (and Chip is blissfully unaware of spoilers or synopses for the next two episodes, so he’s going to hold to that position for now). And as modern companion departures go, there’s been no equal. Check out Chip on The Incomparable Network’s TeeVee podcast episode 118 for a longer conversation about “Fa...

From Professor Rasmussen speaking to camera and the complete lack of opening titles to a barely present score and unusual “resolution” to the episode, “Sleep No More” broke all the rules of Doctor Who . Now I’m afraid it’ll be harder to break them again.

The last man on Earth to watch “The Zygon Inversion” finally watches “The Zygon Inversion.”

Just over halfway through Series 9, some fans have come to terms with the Sonic Sunglasses, and some are totally over them. Steven Moffat wouldn’t have it any other way.

Your host’s earlier fears about Osgood’s fate and portrayal have been for the moment assuaged, and, oh by the way, this episode rocked.