TV GUIDE: Weekend TV: Homeland, Dexter, PBS' Midwife, Fringe, More
Sep 28, 2012
by Matt Roush
... "I hate endings," says the title hero (Matt Smith) of Doctor Who, who demonstrates by tearing the last page out of the book he's reading in Central Park. We certainly know how he feels as we approach this week's mid-season finale on BBC America (Saturday, 9/8c) with trepidation and sadness, as it has been billed as the farewell episode for the good Doctor's most recent beloved traveling "companions," Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and her devoted husband Rory (Arthur Darvill). Parting is rarely sweeter sorrow than when the Doctor parts company with old friends, and this one is marvelously executed by executive producer/writer Steven Moffat. "The Angels Take Manhattan" pulls out all the stops, emotionally and otherwise, with location footage in New York City enhancing a story framed as a paperback noir mystery, where a key rule is declared early on: "You can't read ahead." As the episode title suggests, the Weeping Angels are back, and I don't think I'll walk through my adopted city again without nervously looking back at the gargoyles, statues and cherubs that decorate so many historic edifices. As always, those spooky Angels made me jump numerous times, while the episode itself — so rapturous and wrenching — had me fighting back tears. I'll miss "the Ponds," maybe as much as the Doctor...
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EPISODE TRAILER FOR DOCTOR WHO'S 'THE ANGELS TAKE MANHATTAN'
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