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How to stream in the US (what a mess!):
Classic Doctor Who's: Britbox (and others, e.g. Tubi)
2005-2022: AMC+
2023-2024: DisneyPlus
Future shows: AMC+?
And I'm not enough of a film critic to do a good job of identifying why I don't like something, but I'm going to guess it's the writing. The characters wind up being people we don't care about, the plots are lame, the morality heavy handed, the resolutions embarrassing. If I had to guess I'd just assert they lowered the target audience to about ten year olds. But I think it might just be the show runner getting distracted and lazy ... without anyone around to tell him when the script sucks.
We used to seriously look forward to new shows with Tennant and Smith(*), and groaned through most of Capaldi's. But watching the new doctors was a chore. We had the same reaction to Torchwood. The series started off great, but by the last season we just wanted to have a mind wipe and forget how much time we'd spent compulsively completing the series.
Just my two-cents. Hope you find them more enjoyable than we did!
(*) to be fair, some of the Tennant and Smith shows were bloody awful too. But some we've rewatched literally a dozen times.
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