Doctor Who: Season 2 (2025)
Series, 2025, Fifteenth Doctor, Set in Belinda Chandra
Doctor Who: Season 2 (2025) is #20 of 21 in release order and #20 of 21 in chronological order in the Doctor Who.
The story
The Doctor meets Belinda Chandra and begins an epic quest to get her back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, ferocious enemies and wilder terrors than ever before.
Doctor Who: Season 2 (2025) recap
After a Christmas adventure at a time hotel, the Doctor meets Belinda Chandra, a nurse from 2025 who is kidnapped by robots to marry their king and looks exactly like a woman he met before. He promises to get her home, but the TARDIS keeps refusing to land on May 24, 2025. They are trapped in cartoons in 1952 Miami by a god called Lux, face a deadly mining world, and meet the Barber, who controls humanity's stories in Lagos. Ruby Sunday returns in a story about a podcaster who fakes an alien attack to discredit UNIT. At a galaxy-wide song contest, the news arrives that Earth ends on May 24, 2025, and Mrs Flood reveals herself as the Rani, a Time Lord villain.
Doctor Who: Season 2 (2025) ending explained
The Rani traps the world in a false reality where the Doctor and Belinda are married with a daughter, Poppy, so she can free Omega, the Time Lords' founder. Omega devours one Rani, and the Doctor sends him back, but Poppy is erased when reality is restored. The Doctor triggers his regeneration early to bring Poppy back as Belinda's daughter, says goodbye, and regenerates into a new body that looks like Rose Tyler, played by Billie Piper.
Where to watch Doctor Who: Season 2 (2025)
Doctor Who: Season 2 (2025) is streaming on Disney+ in the US.
Ratings
IMDb 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 92%
Where it fits
- Release order: after Doctor Who: Season 1 (2024), before The War Between the Land and the Sea.
- Chronological order: after Doctor Who: Season 1 (2024), before The War Between the Land and the Sea.
What to watch before Doctor Who: Season 2 (2025)
In release order, 16 Doctor Who essentials come before Doctor Who: Season 2 (2025) (2025), from Doctor Who (1963) (1963) to Doctor Who: Season 1 (2024) (2024).
Cast
- Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor
- Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday
- Anita Dobson as Mrs Flood
- Varada Sethu as Mundy Flynn
- Susan Twist as Hiker
- Michelle Greenidge as Carla Sunday
- Angela Wynter as Cherry Sunday
- Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
- Alexander Devrient as Colonel Christofer Ibrahim
- Nicholas Briggs as Robots (voice)
- Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush
- Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble