Each Monday morning (Australian time) I've streamed the show and been instantly lost, and can't get a grip on what's and who's important and going to provide me with payoff today, and what isn't. So the result of trying to make a purposefully bingeworthy Doctor Who season so far has unfortunately been the incomprehensible smashing together of several different stories, and any sense of progress or resolution delayed for weeks and weeks. Shows which you can watch over a weekend, where every cliffhanger is resolvable (or satisfactory ending renewed) at the click of a 'next episode' is peak television and what we want for most shows.īut I feel this doesn't work for Doctor Who, which as a BBC institution with a weight of some tradition and where every story can be different, will always be released periodically (described negatively as 'drip based') to (a) stretch out its cultural impact (relative at least to budget) and (b) enhance the show by giving viewers space for the transitions between (ideally) utterly unique settings/casts/concepts to work (and fans a week to chat and analyse and speculate).
I think the challenge with this season is that while its important that a long-running and super-refreshable series like Doctor Who survives and thrives by embracing wherever modern television is at, the creators have picked an approach that doesn't work so well for Doctor Who - a binged multi-part series.īingeworthiness is the trend for 2020s television - in comicbook terms, many shows are now 'written for the trade'.
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