You've seen all the other guides to the best and most essential episodes of Doctor Who. Forget all that crap, I'm here with a new blockbuster double sized article about what you really want: Doctor Who stories for absolute freaks!

I received this strange mess with a kind of wide-eyed Jake English wonder, and I soon settled into that approach for the new series as well. Part of the pleasure of it is precisely that it's cheaply produced, hammily acted, clumsily scripted, often shot in a fairly utilitarian way, with cgi that looks like a ps2 game. This is an exhilarating contrast to the "good-core" monotony of contemporary television, which all seems to be Prestige, and is consequently shot, acted, animated, scripted, and grotesquely under-lit the same way. Contemporary television feels over-determined, aggro in its need to make sure that at all times we understand how to feel, even aggro about making sure we know we're supposed to feel ambiguous. This is despite the fact that it often has no actual idea what it's saying or why. It's kind of a relief to experience, in contrast, a show that often is gleefully open about the fact that it doesn't really know what it's doing besides "having fun with it." It's in this spirit that I present my own recommendations.