I'm in 2001 now, which means I've listened to the first batch of adventures bringing back Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. This is pretty fresh, untrod territory for Big Finish - the Doctor Who TV Movie gives McGann so little to work with and so little opportunity to inject any personality into his role, so this might as well be his debut.
Storm Warning ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - A fun adventure that combines an "impending tragic historical disaster" story with a more traditional science fiction yarn. Paul McGann is still figuring his Doctor out but his take, essentially a hot guy with the personality of a manic little guy, is fun
The Sword of Orion ⭐⭐⭐ - This is entertaining enough but so clearly steeped in tropes and story beats from the writer's favorite sci-fi movies (Alien especially). The Cybermen feel like off-brand Borg as they stomp around yelling "resistance is useless"
The Stones of Venice ⭐ - Boring! Why spend time establishing a potentially cool take on future Venice if you're not gonna do anything with it
Minuet in Hell ⭐ - This is a bad story, but the best kind - something audacious enough in its commitment to an ever-worsening downward spiral of storytelling that it eventually comes out on the side of camp. Approximately 10 million things are happening at once (a commentary on southern american evangelical christianity! political corruption! a brain-swapping machine! a guy who gets all the Doctor's memories then spends 80% of the story trying to convince the Doctor he's capital-K krazy! demons!) and it's all slathered in some of the worst, most over-the-top attempts at southern accents you've ever heard. The rampant misogyny is significantly less fun but you can't win them all I guess
Loups-Garoux ⭐⭐ - Props for doing a werewolf story, something the original show never took a stab at. But this one is pretty messy, has more weird stuff with indigenous cultures, and the romance(s) just didn't work for me